June turned out to be a productive month. Firefox 3 came out, Wine finally hit 1.0, and yours truly got Xorg up and running on his laptop.

Installed KDE, set up Russian and Ukrainian localization. Funny side note — I was going to write in Russian, but …

Over the local network it connects fine. When I try to connect to an external IP address, depending on the protocol set in the config, I get the following errors: udp: read UDPv4: Connection reset by peer (WSAECONNRESET) (code=10054) tcp: TCP: connect to …

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How to hide a folder (file) in a shared folder

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1. A Jabber server. Because local messengers are trash, and Miranda looks pretty :)
2. Kerio Mail Server is crap. Sorting rules are pathetic, log visibility is zero. And hMailServer too. Or maybe I’m just clueless. Looking at MDaemon and XMail.
3. Shadow …

to boot FreeBSD via ntloader you need

c:\boot0=“FreeBSD”

Turns out Windows has this neat thing called Volume Shadow Copy. Its usefulness lies in the ability to back up files that are open for writing, and on a 2003 Server you can even keep up to 64 copies of a network-shared resource. That is, a file being …

Rejoicing at the idle capacity of the server, I set up a zoo of virtual machines on it. Installed XP, 2003, 7.0. In the firewall (Kerio Winroute) I added a rule that everything is allowed for anyone in the “virtual servers” group. In VMWare, …

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](http://www.downshifting.ru/) I learned about this phenomenon from BOR’s quote It seems to me that this sermon against shoddy work and philistinism was at the same time a sermon in favor of …

Today is that one day of the year when the general public remembers the Chernobyl tragedy. Even Yandex Pulse clearly shows a spike in activity. Chart for the year: Interestingly, it turns out that on this day the words “Chernobyl” and …