I don’t remember anymore who I’ve told and who I haven’t — not long ago I happened to win a regional competition. More precisely, the regional stage of a national competition. And to be even more precise — I shared first place with an …

by the way, the esteemed Umputun has released a new podcast, and has already pushed out two episodes. All fans of RadioT — go download and enjoy.

Damn it, I always rack my brain over the same thing: what to write in a cover letter for a resume? And I always end up writing something new :( No prepared template on hand. Today I managed to put together this:

Hello. Due to my need for growth and …

Downloading Radio-t 155 via EDGE/GPRS. After a whole night, 28% done. Hello, Umputun

UPD: Turned out I was wrong to blame Kyivstar. Now downloading with wget instead of the podcast client — and in 30 minutes I got half of it at a steady 22–24 kilobytes/s

Keeping it short. Turns out, to use Kyivstar’s 3G, you either have to sign a contract or buy a specially marked starter kit that comes bundled with a 3G SIM card. So now I’m stuck with EDGE, though at least in the regional center it’s …

When I got my hands on a server running a fully legitimate Windows Server 2003 R2, the question arose: what to do about online updates? They close security holes, improve performance, and generally — bring communism a little closer in one particular …

Hangs on startup, found the fix here http://www.openkazan.info/node/3120

1. Close

evolution 2. Force-close it completely sudo evolution –force-shutdown 3. Open

gconf-editor , if not installed: sudo apt-get install gconf-editor

4. Navigate to …

Attention! Super news!! The SUPER mobile operator MTS is launching a new tariff — “Super Unlimited Without a Contract”!!!

• 25 MB of internet!
• 25 MMS!
• 25 SMS!
• 1500 minutes across Ukraine with no connection fee!!! Package price — 49 UAH!!! …

In the Firefox that comes with Mint, there is a customized Google search — unusual and inconvenient. And I couldn’t disable it the standard way — you can only remove it entirely, but then there’s no way to add it back. I found somewhere …

The program takes a long time to start.