Continuing the rural theme — found it on fishki, I crawled under my chair laughing :)

Come morning you will walk to the office, Log your arrival in the book, Then mindlessly stare at the monitor, And another day for the country — just gone.

You’ll …

There’s this fellow — Timur Shaov. One of his songs has latched onto me and just won’t let go, the wretched thing.

In the beginning was the Word, time passed.
God created beer, woman, and the Earth,
And God saw that it was good.
He had the …

– What are you waiting for, sir? – the smiling host asked me with friendly surprise. – Your number is 19. Go and meet your fate, my friend! – Yes, of course, – I smiled back, – thank you for reminding me why I came …

By allocating 128 megabytes of memory for video, I managed to render Windows completely inoperable — now it only works without the video card driver :(

Unclear what’s going on. Here’s a description of the symptoms:

I have an ASUS X51RL laptop …

There’s a reason to congratulate the Alexanders I know, since December 6th is their name day ;)

Today was the first day of hard work (gig) as a civil servant. No impressions yet — everyone is sizing each other up. So far everything is fine — a typical example of a typical rural government office…

More precisely, I swapped my nice ASUS 3500L for the same brand’s X51RL. I was tempted by a gigabyte of RAM, a SATA hard drive at 5400 RPM, a glossy widescreen display. And the ATI graphics with Wi-Fi won’t hurt either.

The first discovery was …

Today during the day, the first experiment with the African Linux was conducted. It served as a vivid illustration of the fact that you cannot install operating systems without beer :) Problem statement: install Kubuntu on a virtual machine. Purpose: …

It turns out that my household members have a completely different daily schedule.

By the time my grey cells wake up and start doing productive work — calling for reinforcements in the form of tea (continuously) and cigarettes (once every 60 minutes) — …

The event everyone had been preparing for so long has finally happened! It took much less time than hauling all the stuff to Zaporizhzhia. Packed everything into boxes/bags/suitcases in two days, and two bicycles were placed on top (yep, that’s me — …