Lately I’ve mostly been listening to the radio. The pleasant St. Petersburg Rocks Radio, and the wide selection of SKY.FM stations. However, the best audio backdrop for work or study was Last.fm for me, and it’s quite sad that it went behind a …

Due to an internet crimes investigation, the largest portal in Dnipropetrovsk has been shut down Today, November 19, the largest internet portal in Dnipropetrovsk, Gorod.dp.ua, posted a message stating that the site’s operation had been halted by …

Bought a router, set it up. Very easy and intuitive to configure, it has a Wi-Fi power level control (turned it down to 25% right away and it’s fine — the room is small, it reaches just fine). Mint immediately detected the network and connected — by …

today, on International Students’ Day, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine finally passed law 404 — the one that obliges internet providers to monitor users: where we go and what we look at. I hadn’t paid much attention to this law, because I …

After thinking it over, I decided against the modem. Now I’m choosing between D-link DIR-300 and TP-LINK TL-WR340GD. The D-Link goes for 395 UAH, the TP-Link for 283 UAH respectively. The latter doesn’t support VPN tunnels (which, given the …

An unexpected problem hit me with Mint. I never would have thought that a system which found drivers for a whole bunch of devices on its own would be unable to set up a simple PPPoE connection.

Here’s what happened: I connected to a local network …

An interesting question: We have a D-Link modem, which doubles as a router with built-in Wi-Fi. Specifically, the model 2600 (glamorous, white, belongs to a friend of mine). Well, we don’t have it yet, but there’s an intention to buy one. This …

Shutting down servers. Yesterday I powered off my FreeBSD box that was running VPN, NTP, and torrents. Its fate from now on — a spare workstation, because after I leave, no one here needs a Unix box. Today I’m shutting down and archiving the virtual …

the cold has set in. yesterday we heated the stove. truth be told, it wasn’t the first time, so the book we’d been given for kindling had run out. had to take another one. a strange thing — burning the 8th-grade algebra textbook was morally …

Another milestone in life has passed — today I submitted my resignation letter. The real ending will happen when I receive my final paycheck. But the mental one, the one inside your head — that’s the more important one.