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.

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 …