The second one is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" - a warm story about friendship, love and adolescence. The cast well chosen and the movie features an excellent soundtrack (it made me listen Brian Eno for a week).
Friday, February 15, 2013
Movies
A classic: "Pi" by Darren Aronofsky. It is one of the best movies about mathematics and number theory. It sill has some exaggerated aspects on mathematics but all-in-all it makes a credible story. The techno soundtrack with long brown-noise pauses is fantastic.
The second one is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" - a warm story about friendship, love and adolescence. The cast well chosen and the movie features an excellent soundtrack (it made me listen Brian Eno for a week).
The second one is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" - a warm story about friendship, love and adolescence. The cast well chosen and the movie features an excellent soundtrack (it made me listen Brian Eno for a week).
Too much, Too late
Something good happened to me this week. But it was too late. Although it was a lifetime opportunity it would have made me an alien, a Romanian in Dublin.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Flanco
Q: Do you know how to keep a stupid man in suspense?
A: We will call you as soon as possible and tell you how!
I wanted to buy a Macbook Pro 13 (late 2011) from Flanco. Went to their site and placed an order online. As the product was not in their stocks I received an email saying that I will be contacted as soon as possible by their sales consultants... There are four days since. I feel stupid.
A: We will call you as soon as possible and tell you how!
I wanted to buy a Macbook Pro 13 (late 2011) from Flanco. Went to their site and placed an order online. As the product was not in their stocks I received an email saying that I will be contacted as soon as possible by their sales consultants... There are four days since. I feel stupid.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Movies this weekend
Ronal the Barbarian
Quite a funny animation. It mocks up the barbarian stereotypes in a story placed somewhere between "Lord of the Rings" and "Discworld".
Les Infideles
The best French comedy in the last decade. A must see.
Quite a funny animation. It mocks up the barbarian stereotypes in a story placed somewhere between "Lord of the Rings" and "Discworld".
Les Infideles
The best French comedy in the last decade. A must see.
Misc.
Rebranding
ING has refreshed its Home'Bank application. It looks fresher and cleaner. Also Adevarul and Vodafone have nicer and faster web interfaces
Betting on wrong horses
I have been betting on the wrong voices on "Vocea Romaniei". As always the choices were dubious and had nothing to do neither with the voice nor with the looks of the contestants. It is even worse than last year...
Politics
This year I really have no choice for voting. None of the candidates represents any of my political ideas. Besides - all of them are involved in suspect business or are political migrants.
City
As the winter season approached the center is again crowded with wooden barracks in which they sell the same thing over and over again. The same kitsch Christmas products, roasted meat, sausages and wine - in front of the cathedral although during a lent period.
Work
Meh. I am just tired.
ING has refreshed its Home'Bank application. It looks fresher and cleaner. Also Adevarul and Vodafone have nicer and faster web interfaces
Betting on wrong horses
I have been betting on the wrong voices on "Vocea Romaniei". As always the choices were dubious and had nothing to do neither with the voice nor with the looks of the contestants. It is even worse than last year...
Politics
This year I really have no choice for voting. None of the candidates represents any of my political ideas. Besides - all of them are involved in suspect business or are political migrants.
City
As the winter season approached the center is again crowded with wooden barracks in which they sell the same thing over and over again. The same kitsch Christmas products, roasted meat, sausages and wine - in front of the cathedral although during a lent period.
Work
Meh. I am just tired.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Strategies
One of the things a company needs is a long term strategy and a clear vision on the market and its future.
Having said that I must admit that as long as I was with ALu I was not always able to see the big picture (as I was part ow a some time orwell-esque world inside). Having stepped back a little and looking to my former employer I have to say that they are trying to reshape the telco world as we know it with three ground breaking technologies:
1. Light Radio
Light radio changes the way the RAN will be built by transforming the large bulky towers into ubiquous cubes able to harvest radio signals with less power and in a denser grid. They are one of the most elegant implementation of the SDR concept and here we can see the fine touch of the Bell Labs. They are able tho modulate everything from GSM, 3G, WiMax to LTE as they are in fact remote radio heads driven optically from the network.
2. FP3
In order to accommodate the traffic the LightRadio will sustain due to the increasing HD video, P2P and such a new transport infrastructure has to be put in place. The FP3 network processor is the device that makes possible to create the switching fabric for the the data tide the is about to come. its 400Gbps capacity is intended for the future and can offer a competitive advantage in an all-IP network.
3. CloudBand
If the two technologies described above are already on the market Cloud band is not yet there. Its aim is to create a completely virtualizable core network. However this is the trickiest and the most sensitive part of the strategy as ALu is not really a software company. Having the core network as PaaS raises lots of unknown points as core QoS, core HA, core network security. I doubt that the telco operators will ever want to put their money making services in somebody's else cloud as there is sensitive data and the core is somehow quite realtime sensitive - wich puts a lot of pressure on the cloud. As for HA I think what the current providers have is far less than the 99.999% the telcos need (think about the AWS outages).
ALu's strategy makes sense but their timing and execution is endangered. If they succeed (as they have the brain mass for creation) they will for sure be disruptive. Until them they have to finance their research on a shrinking margin market with a fierce concurrence from giants as Ericsson and Huawei.
Having said that I must admit that as long as I was with ALu I was not always able to see the big picture (as I was part ow a some time orwell-esque world inside). Having stepped back a little and looking to my former employer I have to say that they are trying to reshape the telco world as we know it with three ground breaking technologies:
1. Light Radio
Light radio changes the way the RAN will be built by transforming the large bulky towers into ubiquous cubes able to harvest radio signals with less power and in a denser grid. They are one of the most elegant implementation of the SDR concept and here we can see the fine touch of the Bell Labs. They are able tho modulate everything from GSM, 3G, WiMax to LTE as they are in fact remote radio heads driven optically from the network.
2. FP3
In order to accommodate the traffic the LightRadio will sustain due to the increasing HD video, P2P and such a new transport infrastructure has to be put in place. The FP3 network processor is the device that makes possible to create the switching fabric for the the data tide the is about to come. its 400Gbps capacity is intended for the future and can offer a competitive advantage in an all-IP network.
3. CloudBand
If the two technologies described above are already on the market Cloud band is not yet there. Its aim is to create a completely virtualizable core network. However this is the trickiest and the most sensitive part of the strategy as ALu is not really a software company. Having the core network as PaaS raises lots of unknown points as core QoS, core HA, core network security. I doubt that the telco operators will ever want to put their money making services in somebody's else cloud as there is sensitive data and the core is somehow quite realtime sensitive - wich puts a lot of pressure on the cloud. As for HA I think what the current providers have is far less than the 99.999% the telcos need (think about the AWS outages).
ALu's strategy makes sense but their timing and execution is endangered. If they succeed (as they have the brain mass for creation) they will for sure be disruptive. Until them they have to finance their research on a shrinking margin market with a fierce concurrence from giants as Ericsson and Huawei.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Commit comments on BitBucket
I have been using BitBucket for quite a while and now, with the new interface I discovered much to my shame how important are relevant commit messages.
After some years of Clearcase where the commit message was "." or the id of the bug the new system exposes the changeset's meaning which is great as it forces to think about the relevance of the commit.
After some years of Clearcase where the commit message was "." or the id of the bug the new system exposes the changeset's meaning which is great as it forces to think about the relevance of the commit.
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