Against the backdrop of pre-election and election garbage, I want to say something good: Ukrainian programmers from Kyiv’s Shevchenko University took 4th place at the World Programming Championship. Hooray! Well done, guys.
political cartoon
February 4, 2010Uncle Yolkin captured the events on our political stage very accurately…
KDE in Karmic Koala
January 31, 2010It has been 2 months since I started working with the latest Kubuntu, and I can now draw some conclusions.
1. Kubuntu itself, compared to Mint 7, looks less polished — in terms of fonts and drivers. 2. ATI drivers are a whole other story. I forget where I …
bookmarks and paranoia
January 31, 2010I have always been terrified of losing some interesting piece of information I found on the internet. So, like a Plyushkin, I drag everything interesting into bookmarks. Now my obsession has reached its peak: after all, a page I’ve bookmarked can be …
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January 27, 2010lg F8056 LDP 3000 ardo flso 106s
samsung wf8508 nhw ylp
e-shepet *****excellent model Usage experience: several months Pros: Large loading hatch, wash cycle indicator, low water consumption — 40 litres, easy to use, washes everything very well, when …
about blank DVD (and CD) discs
January 25, 2010Needed a piece of software today, and was too lazy to go online since I was pretty sure I had it on a disc somewhere.
Found it on a dual-layer (8 gigabyte) Arena blank, burned back in May 2008 (I picked up the useful habit of writing the burn date on …
brief movie notes
January 23, 2010Quick and concise thoughts on movies I’ve seen more or less recently.
- Avatar: stunning film, watch it only in a theatre. Technology (for the boys) and romance (for the girls). - Armored: despite the star-studded cast, it’s total rubbish. Fell …
dir-300
January 8, 2010Updated the firmware to the latest version. Before updating, I noticed with some surprise that this router had disappeared from the official website — in its place there is now some DIR-300/NRU, which looks different. Fortunately, the firmware files were …
about KVN
December 30, 2009To lift our spirits, we watched the 2009 KVN Premier League final. We somehow endured the first half of the show, but by the second half we had no energy left, so we switched to dinner, conversation, and tea. Today we finished downloading the “KVN …
what software I need on a freshly installed Kubuntu:
December 16, 2009-firefox -keepassx -krusader -yakuake -kvpnc -tcsh -audacious -mc -htop -gpodder
-kdenetwork-filesharing (for sharing via Samba through right-click in the file manager)