I got fed up with Mint running slowly, especially compared to the beast of a machine at work.

Added the noatime,nodiratime options to /etc/fstab and ran the following command I found:

tune2fs -O has_journal -o journal_data_writeback /dev/sda5

to disable the journal on the root partition. Waiting for Dropbox to sync and then I’ll try rebooting.

Now instead of this set of sticks

2 GB each, I have this “sweet pair”:

DDR3 1333MHz, 4 GB each.

Finally got Disqus comments hooked up to Blogger.

Apologies for any lost comments — once I figure out how to migrate them, I’ll bring them back.

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Looks like I’ll be rolling back to Firefox version 3, because version 4 keeps crashing on Windows — a pile of open tabs, and bam — crash.

With version 3 there was none of that, none of that…

In the 8 days since starting to create a local repository, 39 gigabytes have been downloaded and it has reached the letter L in the largest repository universe.

It’s rough living with a slow internet connection. And mostly it’s because after every disconnection the download stops and only resumes a) manually b) after re-hashing everything already downloaded.

today the whole day was spent recalculating those 39 gigs. what will it be like later when updating all this stuff?

As I mentioned, I’m setting up a local mirror of repositories — so that the fleet of Linux machines gets updates quickly and over Ethernet. For this, I attached a 100 GB disk to a virtual machine, and now a specially crafted script is downloading repos for two architectures (i386 and amd64) of one distribution — 10.10. If the percentages the script prints to the screen are to be trusted, the final mirror size will be around 60 GB. I think I’ll also need to download repos for 11.04 (and eventually 11.10 as well), so expanding partitions with LVM is becoming practically useful — and even necessary. Once the download finishes (currently at about 15%), I’ll try it out and post recommendations there.

I don’t like Wednesdays.

I want to work in such a way that on Wednesdays I handle backups and testing, and on Fridays — getting acquainted with new materials.

Recently I got my own domain: http://disfinder.com

My Tumblr blog — the one at http://disfinder.tumblr.com — is now hosted there.

Here, at <p.disfinder.com>, there will be a Blogger blog. I’ll tinker a bit with themes — everyone seems to praise Blogger. Let’s see how it goes.

Having as many as three diaries is a bit of a drag — this one, LiveJournal, and Tumblr.

The current breakdown is roughly this:

• Tumblr — only about IT, and with at least some practical value
• LiveJournal — about personal life
• here — about IT stuff with no practical value. For example, “Microsoft bought Skype. Oh no oh no.”

Happy reading, my dear readers!

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.

• yakuake

• krusader

• kvpnc

• audacious

• dropbox

• teamViewer

• keepasx

• gPodder

• opera

• choqok

• qutim

• alltray

• archivers

• htop

• vlock

• tcsh

• Firefox plugins