Registering a second-hand car in Romania

The newly-installed minister of environment in the Government of Romania, Nicolae Nemirschi, does not agree to eliminate the tax of car registration (taxa de prima inmatriculare), for Romania should not turn into a car graveyard of Europe. The phenomenon began after 1990, when many citizens would buy second-hand cars especially from Germany and has increased in intensity with the aderation of Romania to the European Union in 2007. In order to increase the sales of Dacia cars, the romanian brand, and to avoid the pollution that second-hand cars would give, the Gouvernmnet has set up the disputed tax.

Nicolae Nemirschi has stated that the qualities of a car should be in the level of exhaust release and not in its "age". The minister has proposed a plan similar to that applied in many european countries: there should be created a number of "rings" surrounding the big cities, and the access towards downtown should be restricted more and more, depending of the level of car emission control.

It is now left to the citizens to see if the project should work or not.

Skype gets a Jumper

The MPLAT Jumper S100 Personal Gateway. Yet another box which lets you use your standard landline phone as a Skype phone. Clever bits include call forwarding to your mobile phone, 3 way conferencing between Skype and standard PSTN calls, voice recording and voice mail. $49.90.

The MPLAT Jumper S100 is a personal gateway between USB Port and regular telephone port (RJ11) for Skype Voice communication. It will setup the brigde between your skype call and PSTN Call, You will obtain more convenience and freedom, Keep all your tranditional experince, improve the feeling of using the skype. Make and receive Skype calls using your regular telephone,support cordless phone, ordinary answering machine,refreshing your existed telephone built-in features such as handfree,speed dial, redial, mute.

Using SSH access for Linux shared hosting at GoDaddy

Some of you may have noticed the latest and greatest feature GoDaddy began offering to the Linux shared hosting customers. SSH, or Secure Shell, is a program that you can use to log in to another computer over a network. In this way you can execute commands on a remote machine and then move files from one machine to another.
Where do I find this new feature?
All paid accounts will find SSH under 'Settings' in the Hosting Control Center.
How do I begin?
First, you will need to enable SSH in your hosting account using the following help article.
Enabling SSH on Your Linux Shared Hosting Account
Once my account is enabled how do I connect?
In order to connect, you will need an SSH client. Use this article for instructions.
Using SSH to Connect to Your Linux Shared Hosting Account
In order to provide the best experience, customers using SSH are required to be located in our newest hosting environment. All new hosting accounts will have SSH available.  For existing customers, GoDaddy is in the process of creating a mechanism for you to have your account moved to the new environment.  This mechanism is currently available if your hosting account does not have any databases configured for it.  If you do have databases, you may choose to use the existing MySQL database backup feature to save your content before removing that database and enabling SSH.

So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter?

Making the rounds quickly on Twitter this weekend is Tweetwasters, a site that gives you an idea of how much time you’re really ‘wasting’ posting messages and status updates to the popular micro-sharing service. Users are calculating away and tweeting about it, ironically spending even more time on Twitter (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

There’s even a WordPress plugin that lets you show off your Twitter usage stats to your blog visitors, and if you try hard you might just make the Tweetwasters Hall Of Fame.

Tweetwasters estimates that a user spends about 30 seconds on creating a Tweet on average, which I think is a bit long. They multiply that by the number of Twitter messages you have produced and they provide you with the approximate number of seconds, minutes, hours or days of your life you have spent on Twitter.

twins (+. and .+)

+. and .+ (interesting)