Why Opera?

There are so many browsers out there! Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari - are the major players on the market. But hey, there is another major and one of the oldest browsers in the world: Opera. You might have heard lots of rumours about it. Maybe even used it. Or maybe you belong to a small group of people, who actually use this browser everyday. Would you like to know, why I've been using Opera for 10 years? The answer lies below..

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Inside Python subprocess communication

Sometimes, it's really hard to understand what happens inside a function or even a whole module of Python's Standard library. For example, the subprocess module contains a very tricky Popep class. I tried to use the the module to communicate with a MATLAB subprocess shell (e.g. send MATLAB commands to subprocess and read the output). Unfortunately I failed and was just able to pass a MATLAB script via command-line arguments. Yet, I learnt much about Popen.communicate() method and I'd like to share this knowledge with you.

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First day of week

A very common problem in Ubuntu is "how the heck do I change the first day of week to Monday?". One can google and find a lot of solutions with locales "hacking". Is there a simpler way to do that?

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A very long nightmare

The worst thing has happened: I have an unexpected drive failure. That's how my Easter has started :(

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10 Amazing life lessons you can learn from Albert Einstein

I'm sure, you know, who Albert Einstein is. I remember the basic Relativity Theory course taught at 10th grade of school. That's when I first met Einstein's ideas. It was hard to believe that c, the speed of light - is the maximum speed in the Universe. It was hard to understand, why a time in a spaceship that achieves a speed close to c runs slower and slower. Yet, it was damn interesting and I tried to catch everything our physics teacher said.

Albert Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. He is considered the father of modern physics and is probably the most successful scientist there ever was. I think we should learn a lot from him. Wandering around the web, I ran into a wonderful "10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein" article by Mr. Self Development. I loved Einstein's advices very much. Here they are.

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