Android reminds me a lot of KDE’s Plasma — you can hang all sorts of useful and not-so-useful widgets on it.

My greetings, colleagues!

Aideko has announced a contest again — in addition to promoting their software, they are promising valuable prizes. Even last year’s humorous certificate was very pleasant to receive. The contest is here:

Contest “System Administrator - …

• yakuake

• krusader

• kvpnc

• audacious

• dropbox

• teamViewer

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• opera

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• Firefox plugins

The power went out twice in two days. For 10 minutes each time. Apparently people have gotten air conditioners and the transformers can’t handle the load. I should get one too — the heat is unbearable.

1. Just for today I will try to live this day positively and will not try to solve all problems in advance.

2. Just for today I will be polite toward other people, will not raise my voice at them, will not judge or criticize anyone.

3. Just for today I will …

If the LiveJournal service and this blog in particular survive until the time I become a pensioner, I would like to think that the future me will find it interesting to re-read what I, young and youthful, was doing in general, and in particular what I …

My childhood was spent in a time and place where normal screws were a scarce commodity, and good-quality ones simply didn’t exist. Getting them out was a real ordeal — the vast majority had a slotted head that a screwdriver would chew up in no time. …

I want to set up some software at home (thinking about Nagios/MRTG) to collect statistics about internet availability. I suspect that during working hours, while I’m not home, there are constant lags with the internet connection. So I want to gather …

I need a good software notebook. It has to work on several computers at the same time (and ideally across different operating systems, though Linux alone is enough for now). I want synchronization over the internet and a convenient interface. Don’t …