Miscellaneous
 


Some of the  projects I was involved in, some other stuff that I made, and some other what seem worthy to share.
This page is a kind of work-in-progress so some links  might not work, some are changed, etc.
As a thumb rule, the gray links represent dead ones, to be updated soon.

Current Projects
  • In Psychophysics Lab of Prof. R. Sireteanu in Max Planck Institute for Brain Research & J.W.Goethe University / Frankfurt, Germany. My principal interest here is the analysis and computer simulation of spatial and temporal distortions  in amblyopic vision.
    Briefly, amblyopia is a developmental disorder of the visual system that leads to loses in spatial vision, despite good retinal image quality, and no further deficits in the eye. More details about the laboratory, here.

Past Projects

  • Academic
    • Involved in a study of Hofmeister ion series, with a Black Lipid Membrane Setup, under kind guidance of Prof. C. Ganea, in Max Planck Institute for Biophysics (MPIBP) and UMF "Carol Davila". (2004)

    • Master in Biomedical Engineering, DBB. (2002 - 2004)
      A brief description and some presentations, here (in Romanian language)

  • Industry
    • 2004 - member in the design team of  "Intuitext" e-learning platform
      My main task was to produce accurate & eye-candy  3D models of some human internal organs. Some of them were used then in an education program for biology.

  • Non-profit /NGO/ Volunteering
    • I was one of the founding members of the non-profit organization "AIM" (Association "Internet For Medicine" in Bucharest). (2002 - 2004). The goal of this organization was to implement as cheap and as fast as possible a full scale internet-connected computer network for the whole campus of Medicine University. The work started in 2002 and in 2005 a LAN with almost 1000 computers was completed. Also a big discussion forum for medical students was created.
      I am very proud that I worked with such dedicated and enthusiastic people there, which succeeded in spite of big organizational, financial and bureaucratic problems.

    • In 2003, I was project coordinator for "Unismart" e-learning platform (Black Sea University Foundation, Bucharest, an NGO). My task here was to design and implement some solutions for e-learning.

    • Now an then, I am writing tutorials and howtos on various topics, where they were not written; I put some of them here. If you find errors, missing links, or have further questions on that topic, do not hesitate to contact me via email.

Graphics
  1. Survey of high quality graphic programs and related documentation (in Romanian)
  2. LaTeX related programs

Tutorials
  1. Linux
    1. qemu virtualization (setup guide; different network scenarios)
    2. Slackware Linux - different configuration scripts
      1. Getting X to be (almost) accelerated; other handy X tricks
      2. Compaq Presario 2100 / 2130EA & Slackware Linux
    3. Fluxbox desktop manager - sample configuration good enough for my taste.
    4. UberCool Desktop backgrounds with ImageMagick and XPlanet
  2. Security and privacy
    1. GPG - very short reference
  3. Hardware
    1. Palm Zire 72
      1. Howto - Zire72 case opening
      2. Battery replacement
      3. "Hissing display" problem.
    2. Correct Ethernet cabling

Programs
  1. Psychophysics goodies
    1. Monitor resolution calibration
    2. Monitor contrast estimation
  2. Small utilities for Windows
[to be completed]
Old Stuff
the old stuff is temporarily retired  :)