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 …

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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 …