June 10

7:00 AM The world of illusion. A bit of semantic confusion between Austria and (ancient) Australia i wrote about last night. For that, a fake or illusory on demand event fabricated by "Austrian" authorities (like we so so many recently in the US), with the attacker dead, so nothing can be proved.

Austria's name itself in English is totally wrong, it pretends it comes from Osterreich, which means country of the east in German while in English Austral means from south.

4:35 PM Nu aș vrea să vă sâcâi prea mult dar în timp ce făceam mâncare mă gândeam. Cred că problema cea mai mare a României nu e deficitul. Adică e deficitul, dar cum l-au calculat? Ca să calculezi deficitul la jumătatea anului trebuie să ai cheltuielile bugetare centralizate de la fiecare minister în parte iar suma totală o împarți la PIB. (PIB-ul de la jumătatea anului bineînțeles).

Deci cine a calculat deficitul știe aceste cheltuieli și PIB-ul în timp real. Putem să le vedem și noi sau mergem pe încredere? Sau măcar deîmpărțitul și împărțitorul sau avem de-a face cu o singură ecuație cu două necunoscute pe care nici un matematician nu a rezolvat-o încă (Iohannis avea a scuză, el era profesor de fizică).

Mda aceeași chestie. Am încercat o rețetă nouă de spanac, adus din grădină. Faptul că îl fac eu de la a la z, văd toate ingredientele, cum le prepar, mă face când mănânc să mă gândesc la cum l-am făcut, uneori stresant, când faci o rețetă pentru prima dată, și simt gustul separat al ingredientelor și nu am o experiență culinară satisfăcătoare (nu îmi place).

Singurul lucru care îl fac eu (în afară de cafea) și îmi place neconditiționat este omleta cu brocoli, cred că am pus undeva rețeta. Și salata beouf dar nu am mai făcut demult.

10:55 Still theoretical. Hope we'll se it working some day, soon enough. News first seen here (coincidence).

11:40 I started the other day to write a bit of the OS history. The real one, containing information only. The motivation behind it was the extreme frustration generated by one yet Windows major screw up.

Let me explain. I told the story of the music stick i have in my car right now. I found on a site and downloaded a whole collection of over 6000 songs (files) containing first 100 Billboard hits of every years starting with 60s. Had to download every year manually in the form of a zip file and then unzip it on my flash drive.

After, i copied the over 6000 mp3 files on a stick and that i moved in the car. But the files with the music remained on the computer as well and after listening in the car, i started to want to play them on this computer, hooked to the speakers via Bluetooth (while i do my stuff of course) instead of listening to radio synched to my activities.

But not long after i started playing some music using of course the built in Windows Media Player, i noticed jitters and  hiccups in the songs. Especially when i was starting the browser to navigate in sites.

It so happens i know what this means. Though my system has 8 cores that run up to i forgot, 4 GHz each, it is not fast enough to play a song and open sites in the same time!

I won't skip many other technical details and go to the problem. Programs, applications or processes how they are called nowadays have execution priorities. That is some are executed before others. I would think WMP runs every second or so sending music to a buffer, while the browser does much more work, and it sometimes interferes with the player.

So thoughtless so rude so unprofessional of their part. They set the priority for the player the same as that for the browser or other programs and they clash, which means though i have a formidable hardware, i cannot listen to music and run a browser in the same time.

I know there are several workarounds to address this problem but they all mean changing priority for the WMP process and one way is through the task manager. You start the task manager pressing simultaneously CTRL/ALT/DEL and then click on the Details vertical tab and go to WMP process, right click and then change the priority to f...g realtime.

However. It only last one session of WMP. If you close the window and start it again, it does it again.

One way to make this setting persistent is modifying the command line in the shortcut. Cause of course the shortcut should contain the command line to start the task, right? Like at Linux, right?

However. After with some pain i copied on the desktop a working shortcut for WMP, what do i see under Target tab? A couple of lines, none being the command line though i found online instructions on how to modify the command line on a shortcut. After loosing more than one hour today all the frustration i still cannot make it work cause i will not go and change priority every time i want to play music, right?

How many times similar things  happened to me since that unfortunate day in 1996 when i bought my first Windows computer to this day? Countless. Which made me to sometimes in 2012 to switch to Fedora, a version of Linux. Yeah with Fedora i wasted much more time than i would have by simply continuing to run Windows, but it was so much faster and neater and less fussy and without a million useless options in any situation and i could also understand how an OS should work and felt not that much bullied by Windows as being the only option.

But then i bough a laptop with Chrome OS that was again Linux and now i bought this super micro PC with Windows on it that seemed to finally run mostly because of the hardware but every once in a while like today i remember the Windows pain.