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, …

The picture is taken from the [relevant website

](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 …

Seems I was wrong to blame the seventh version. Installed 6.3 and the problem remained — the ADSL connection refused to come up. Turned out the card was acting up; after a wipe with alcohol and moving it to a different slot, it started working. Hooray, we …

Reporting season has arrived, which means I have less and less time for network tuning. For now I’ve given up on the wall sockets (figuratively speaking), plugged a patch cord into one of them leading to one of the old switches, and I’m working …

The first glitch was rather unexpected. I decided to set up remote access to the server so I wouldn’t have to walk across the hallway. I plug a patch cord into the socket and watch as the server refuses to respond to pings, while the port indicator …

So, about work.

A typical mid-sized government-owned office. A motley collection of PCs, network cabling running along the floor, no documentation, two cheap Surecom hubs/switches. However, the guy who managed all this before me is a very smart fellow. No …

Something like this server. Not exactly the same model, but close.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2950_3?c=ru&cs;=rubsdc&l;=ru&s;=bsd

Changed jobs. Going to do sysadmin work (well, general IT grunt work :) at a small office. Currently figuring out how everything is set up. Once things settle down, I’ll get back in touch with everyone. In brief — the network is ~15 machines. …

Turned out that watching Flash on FreeBSD is a non-trivial task. There is nothing to download from the Adobe site, and after installing from ports, Flash is still not visible in either Opera or Firefox. Found another workaround — will give it a try.

Open …