The Americans have freedom, The Germans — beer and bacon, The French have haute couture, The English — the finest stadium.

But your average Ukrainian Excels at something else instead. He has a long and elastic Patience, like none you’ve seen.

Say …

Written on 2011-11-11 11:11:11. Spotted at a very respected BSD guy’s. (Thanks to him, and also — to the Earth’s rotation for the time zone difference) Such a parade of ones won’t repeat for another hundred years, though next time there …

My long-held, if somewhat forgotten, dream of setting up a home NAS was rekindled by a post from Tivasyk.

I’ve been puzzling over this: why didn’t the phone’s manufacturer give it the ability to act as a Bluetooth receiver?

I’d happily lie on the couch and watch a movie through my favorite wired headphones — without a cable running …

We’re not afraid of any crisis — we’ve stocked up on salo!

True, it might not last the whole winter, but still — when there’s a little box like that sitting in the fridge, somehow your soul feels a bit lighter and warmer.

Radio Rocks was so great when it first appeared — pure music, no shows or ads. Just music. 24 hours a day of proper rock. Can you imagine?

But little by little ads started showing up — taxi companies at first, then more and more, and now it’s simply …

A huge desire of mine, once I go on vacation — to flash my Xperia with some alternative firmware based on Cyanogenmod, there’s just so much tasty stuff packed into it.

Found in the code of an official developer:

 **KvoSpisuem** = Min(RowNU.QuantityNU, **KvoSpisuemBU**);

It should be either “Spisuemo” (Ukrainian) or “Spisyvaem” (Russian).

But here you go — a surzhyk mashup right in the variable …

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 …

Now instead of this set of sticks

2 GB each, I have this “sweet pair”:

DDR3 1333MHz, 4 GB each.