Mobile internet disappeared on my phone. The cause, as always in such cases — “I didn’t do anything, it just broke on its own.” For 5 days I tried now and then — no luck. Today I double-checked the settings (which I hadn’t changed) — everything looked fine, ordered new settings — they never arrived, so I called the carrier.

Endured 15 minutes on hold and 3 minutes of conversation on the theme of “maybe the SIM card broke, try it in another phone, and if it works — the problem is with your handset.” (The SIM CARD! Which hadn’t been removed from the phone! BROKE! And it still makes calls, just won’t carry data traffic! Oh, I didn’t bother arguing with the operator about how SIM cards actually work.)

V. Sosyurchenko Africa Is Already Winning Its Freedom

Africa is already winning its freedom, The backward tribes are becoming people now. But you do not want liberty, my nation. Or do you dream it will fall from the sky somehow?

No, it will not fall from the sky. Freedom is won In relentless, stubborn struggle and strife — Arabs and Blacks are breaking their chains, My people, is it not your time?

I had long since grown disillusioned with Blogger, and for quite some time now I’ve been writing on LiveJournal. The main advantage — threaded comments. But now I’ve decided to write a bit on the Tumblr platform as well, so if anyone is interested in my graphomania — the address is: http://disfinder.tumblr.com

UPD from 2024#

Tumblr as a platform somehow went downhill and was abandoned. They sent emails saying “we’ll delete your account if you don’t click here”, I clicked once, and then stopped bothering — there was nothing interesting there anyway, so that page is gone for good, and rightly so.

Dear readers and friends! Wishing you a Happy New Year! May you welcome it IRL surrounded by your nearest and dearest, enjoy the holiday season to the fullest, and gather strength and positivity during these days for new achievements in the year ahead!

crunchbang broke something in their latest release — it only installs in text mode and crashes at the bootloader installation stage. and this after copying files for half an hour! you dog :(

Linux Mint 9 LXDE with the kuki kernel plays YouTube videos at 360p smoothly in full-screen mode even with Google Reader and Gmail tabs open.

dear friends, how do you carry your mobile phone? in a holster on your belt or what?

and what if you have two? :(

Despite the fact that most of my real and online acquaintances are involved in IT to one degree or another, I very often notice a certain unawareness among my friends when it comes to geeky tools and such. For example, in a team of seven young IT folks (4 developers + 2 sysadmins + support), none of them over 35, not a single person uses Jabber! Everyone is stuck on the cursed ICQ. Well, that can still be chalked up to personal taste, to the fact that moms, wives, and girlfriends are on ICQ — fine. But when people don’t use Dropbox, I’m genuinely surprised. Or rather, regular folks can be forgiven for it, but for an IT person it’s practically a sin not to use tools that make life significantly easier and cost nothing.

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When you listen to several podcasts on related topics, the news starts to repeat itself. Both RadioT, and Internet Stuff, and Krasnoglaziki are all talking about Firefox’s sixth anniversary.