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 …

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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.

Added some work for myself. Did you know that when Windows 7 installs, it creates an extra 100 MB partition before its own? I thought: fair enough, unix-style — put the NTLoader and its config files there. However, that bastard also writes additional data …

My Olenka (the one running Linux Mint 8 Helena) started lagging terribly for some reason. I’m suspecting bug #12309, but I’ve decided to reinstall Mint anyway. At first I was thinking about downgrading — because the newer version 9 Isadora …

Set up LiveJournal syndication to Twitter, curious to see how it works. Still, the comment tree in LJ is the best — neither Blogspot nor Twitter can match it.

Having gotten used to multiple virtual desktops in X, I now can’t manage without them in Windows. It really is very convenient to leave the test database on the first desktop, toss the production one onto the second, and put the browser and bash on …

In the evening I forgot to put my new toy on charge — and in the morning I nearly overslept because the alarm didn’t go off. The battery died completely overnight, even though around 10 PM I checked and it still had more than 50%. I was generally …

At some point I gave up on del.icio.us (when Yahoo bought them they went downhill, in my opinion). I chose this service instead — it did an excellent job of syncing bookmarks between home and work. And now this service is shutting down starting January …

For my birthday I got myself a little Android phone — the Xperia X10 mini pro. A neat gadget with a 5-megapixel camera, a capacitive touchscreen, and a hardware QWERTY keyboard. I went for it based on my positive experience with Sony Ericsson. Turns out …