Author: Pete Vagiakos

Back from Tunis! 2

Back from Tunis!

AMD’s X2000 launch in Tunis was a success in my opinion, and here I am, back in Greece. Now the difficult part begins, where I have to be in constant contact with everyone before the NDA lifts, but it’s fun Once the NDA lifts I am going to post pictures and several other stuff, but until then, hold on to your horses!

So, on to work! 0

So, on to work!

I was in Munich from Monday to Wednesday, and it was a fun trip – I met up with Lars Weinand and we discussed strategies, where AMD currently has the upper hand and what we need to do to commute that to the press and the public. It’s an exciting thing for me, basically because times are continually changing and with a position like mine, I have to constantly adapt to new challenges. I believe I can handle it though I loved the trip for one more reason: I hadn’t spoken any Deutsch for about seven years, and this was...

Whoops… 0

Whoops…

Counter was not working. Fixt I am also going to Muenchen for the first time tomorrow afternoon. It’ll be an excellent opportunity to remember my Deutsch, for which my vocabulary is non-existent these days. But I trust that it’ll all come back to me eventually

New month, new challenges! 6

New month, new challenges!

March! Winter is behind us (although I do wonder what kind of winter this was; it seemed more like a prolonged Autumn here in Greece) and it’s the time to start something new. As I blogged last week, as of today I no longer work for Siemens. Instead I will be helping out a little company called Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD in short. I don’t believe in karma and stuff like that, but I find it a strange turn of events that I will be able to work with the company I have been a supporter since I first...

Everything that has a beginning, has an end… 2

Everything that has a beginning, has an end…

An era comes to an end when this month closes. The reason is simple: I quit my job over at Siemens. It was a great year, in which I learned many new things, and hopefully I helped my colleagues and the company I currently work for. But, I can hear you ask, what are you going to do? Well, the reason I quit is because I got a job offer I simply could not refuse. Obviously some people who talk to me privately already know what this is all about, but I’d rather not reveal what I am going to...

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And yes, an update!

I haven’t updated this blog in ages, and there’s proper reason for that: too much work these days. I think I’ll start hating C++ (yes, that bad). Anyway, apart from that, I decided to stick with openSUSE for now, and not only that, but I’ve completed the configuration of my OS just the way I like it. Yes, I kept notes too, which simply means that the second part of last month’s OpenSource Journal is on the way. Not much else really… the next post will probably be the Journal entry, I’ll try to finish it within the upcoming weekend....