As part of the fight against piracy, I today switched from the decent VMWare Workstation 6 to the free VMWare Server 2. Besides being free, its significant (and, probably, main for me) advantage is the ability to start virtual machines automatically when …

On a tip from comrade nil59, who said: 3) if I were setting up a mail server today - I would try http://www.citadel.org/doku.php. And would report back to the community :) ru_root: Need advice on a mail server for FreeBSD. I decided to try Citadel. Started …

Today, on Forgiveness Sunday, I want to ask forgiveness from my friends whom I rarely reach out to, or have stopped contacting altogether. Please forgive me. I remember you and I feel truly sorry that things turned out this way. Certain life events that …

Discovered DropBox for myself — kind of like SVN for the lazy. On the downside — its interface is GNOME-style On the upside — it works on Linux, Mac, and Windows Currently giving it a try, but I’m sure I’ll find a use for it :)

Tema Lebedev’s work on the LiveJournal interface is bearing fruit. For instance, this very post was made using their new bookmarklet. A small thing — but handy, and it will definitely come in useful.

Bookmarklet: posting to LiveJournal

Thanks to friends and God’s help, I finally managed to write the abstract, and today I received a reply that it had been accepted for the conference.

Now the main task is to unite the Jabber servers at work. There is one running central server (~300 …

For the second week now I’ve been racking my brain trying to write a thesis abstract for my master’s program. Since the university is very disorganized, I still don’t have a supervisor for my master’s thesis, and there’s no …

if you want your communication with friends to stop depending on ICQ’s problems, get yourself a Jabber account and add me to your contacts :)

Switch to Jabber!#

Imagine that there is only one mail server in the world — www.email.com — and all fans of …

My prolonged silence, caused by certain pre-New Year family troubles, was made even worse by exam session. In case I haven’t mentioned it, I’m currently studying for a master’s degree at the Classical Private University (Zaporizhzhia, …

1. Hooray. Finally got Subversion figured out. Now thinking about where it would be better to live — on the work server (it has better uptime) or on the home machine (which will stay with me if I change jobs)? I’m thinking on the work machine for …