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Archive for November 9th, 2006

Got my car back

11.09.2006 · Posted in Personal

I have finally got my car back from the garage and here is what I think:

First of all the door was replaced. It looks good and I feel happy. This was the main purpose of giving the car to the garage. I also liked the fact that garage had provided me with their car while they were dealing with mine, but here are some things I didn\’t like:

1. It took them 1 week to replace the door. A friend of mine who is working on car repairs told me that he could do it in 2 days. Maybe the guys were very busy, but still – kinda too long.

2. They have not did any additional things I have asked them to do like: change oil, change filters, check the handbrake and check if they can fix the fuel amount sensor. Pity. Now I need to give car to repair these items :(

3. When I called the garage today to ask about a car, they told it will be ready in 1 hour. I came to them 3 hours later and they told me that they haven\’t manage to wash it yet, so I have to wait for another hour – no way, I took the car unwashed since I was in a hurry and now I will give it for washing myself.

Seems to be it, but I think I will be looking for different garage (not that busy one). I was already advised to check one garage owned by friend of friend of mine :) I will check it up and let you know.

Sun JDK on Fedora Core 6

11.09.2006 · Posted in Personal, Technology

I am not a Java fan and I do prefer doing all my stuff in Perl (due to the perl being more flexible and comfortable to code in [my personal view] and probably due to the nature of the tasks I have), but due to the college class Object Oriented Programming which is totally taught in Java, I have to install Sun JDK on my laptop for some time.

It turned out that the task is not that easy (actually easy, but tricky), but I found a nice article which describes all steps needed to get Sun JDK configured on the system – works for me