My experience with Microsoft Surface RT

I wanted to share some goods and bads about my experience using the Microsoft Surface RT tablet.

First the tablet's hardware is great, I like the touch cover, kickstand, USB port, micro HDMI port. To get all these on other tablets you need to pay a lot of money for accessories. They are all included with Surface. Great stuff.

The wireless performance is very good, I can watch HD movies over the network from my WD live media player and it is working great. This does not work on my son's IPAD 2, I cannot compare with the newer versions. The wireless router is Linksys E2000.

The only problem I see is the lack of applications and hopefully this will be solved in time. I also wish MS would allow other browsers like Chrome. IE 10 works fine but I cannot see my browsing history, bookmarks etc from my PC or android phone.

VMware vMA commands

Connect to configure vMA
https://ip_address_of_vmwa:5480

Log in as vi-admin


vifp addserver vcenter_or_esx
vifp listservers
vifptarget -s vcenter_or_esx

vicfg-nics –l –vihost esxhost
Join vMA to the domain
sudo domainjoin-cli join domainname domain_join_user

VIM tutorial

Basic commads

i	go to insert mode (at cursor position)
I	start editing at the beginning of the line
o	go to insert mode on a new line bellow
O	go to insert mode on a new line above
A	insert at the end of the line
ESC	go to command mode
:wq	write and quite
:q	quite
:q!	quite discarding changes
:12	go to line 12
:$	go to the end of file
$	go to the end of line
^	go to the beginning of the line
0	same as above
yy	copy current line
3 yy	copy three lines
dd	cut current line
p	paste
J	join lines
/robert	search for the word "robert"
n	next occurrence
?robert	search for "robert" in reverse order
u	undo
.	repeat last modification operation
cw	change word
x	delete backwards
w	skip to next word
5w	skip five words
b	skip to the previous word
)	skip to next sentence
(	skip to previous sentence
dw	delete word at the right
db	delete word at left
das	delete current sentence

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Mount iso in linux

Run this:

 mount myiso.iso /mnt/iso/ -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0

Convert bin to iso in linux

In ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install bchunk

Create a file:

sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/bchunkcue

Paste this into the new file:


#!/bin/bash
echo “FILE “”$1.bin” ”BINARY” >> $1.cue
echo ” TRACK 01 MODE1/2352 >> $1.cue
echo ” INDEX 01 00:00:00 >> $1.cue
bchunk $1.bin $1.cue $1_
rm $1.cue


Make it executable:

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/bchunkcue

Then just run:

bchunkcue filename without the bin extension.

Learning Python

After trying for a long time to choose some more "portable" (then VBScript LOL) programming language to learn, I decided to go for Python. I found very nice free tutorials on the web. I recommend you to start with A Byte of Python which is a very good start for a beginner, thanks Swaroop for your effort to put together such a tutorial. As an alternative, or maybe to get a bit more in depth knowledge you can go for Dive Into Python. After I finish this I want to learn the Django framework in order to start developing some web applications and try Google Apps Engine. However I find Python already useful also as an alternative to VBscript for Windows administration. Microsoft has a few examples of scripts written in Python on their website.

Blog world - so much choice

It looks like nowadays every big player in the internet game is trying to get a bigger piece of the pie creating more and more attractive platforms for internet presence, social networking etc. It is difficult to chose. I looked today over Microsoft's Live Spaces and it looks great. The integration with MSN messenger and other MS products, the possibility of synchronizing with my Windows Mobile phone and other advantages coming from having all the platform integrated is very appealing. However I am a partisan of the open standards and even all my work is related to Microsoft I think that being Open is the condition for progress and the future in every field, not only computing.

So why choose Blogger? I have Windows even on my smart phone... The idea is to promote choices.

I pay almost 10USD a month for hosting on a server where I can install whatever I like. I play with Joomla, Wordpress and other systems. I have a site created with Joomla at http://www.boerescu.info. However I find every day that choices from the free area are more and more powerful, with more space, integrated with mail, messengers, and the possibility to be part of social networks with millions of people.

I trust Google's creativity. I am looking forward to see with what they will come up next. keep up the good work.