frenzy foreva

Got a shock. Reinstalled Windows — the virus I’d caught was being found and cleaned poorly, and I didn’t feel bad about wiping it. Installed onto the same partition as before, and almost lost FreeBSD — on boot it stops at mounting root and …

Collecting tar. First spoonful.

Tried to install drivers for the webcam. multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod They are ported from Linux. Not only did the system kernel-panic during the first build attempt (it did eventually compile on a retry), but the drivers still didn’t work. When …

can't keep quiet

Today I found out that one of the chauvinist, Ukraine-hating, provocative blogs on LiveJournal is ceasing to exist — that is, ceasing to be updated with filth — the diary of Lukyanenko. Not Levko, but Sergei, the one who is a sci-fi writer and a hack. How …

free desktop

To fully replace the desktop from Windows to BSD, I’m missing Bluetooth and a carddealer reader. And if MyPhoneExplorer runs under Wine, my joy will know no bounds :)

ICQ

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On the evening of July 1st, fans of chatting in virtual space were unable to connect to ICQ. The unusual problem affected the QIP and Adium (OS X) clients. Upon connecting to the network, users were greeted with a message demanding that they update …

Installing OpenOffice

While building the subject, I got this:

NOTICE:To build OOo, you should have a lot of free diskspace (~ 11GB) and memory (~ 2GB).If you want SDK and/or solver, please type make sdk and/or make solver
=> OOo_BEA300_m2_source.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to …