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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 their client to the latest version. Fulfilling this requirement changed nothing — the messenger would again demand an update.

However, this trouble did not affect all users. The principle by which victims of these mysterious connection failures are selected remains a mystery. No comments from specialists have been received yet.

OpenVPN is working! Forwarded the SSH port on the router and redid all the settings following the recommendations of this guy And voilà!

Firefox startup time in FreeBSD: 1:24.9, including the OS and KDE boot time

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 exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/openoffice.org3.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/sources/.**OOo_BEA300_m2_source.tar.bz2 2% of 284 MB** 57 kBps 01h23m

TWO GIGS of RAM!!! Three hundred megs of sources!!! OMG! Someone kill me! And how am I supposed to install this thing??

It works :)

First try to post to lj from IM. Trying to write from Kopete.

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 never bothered adding the Russian keyboard layout (I don’t like having three languages on the computer). Flash works in FF, though only version 7, because version 9 just showed empty squares for some reason. And version 7 doesn’t work everywhere. Damn :/ After all, it’s a plain truth that a user works not with the operating system but with applications, so they don’t really care which OS is running underneath. Firefox and Last.fm player are the same as before — the search for other software continues. In order, here’s what I’d like to have:

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 92.113.13.48:5000 failed, will try again in 5 seconds Both machines access the internet through an ADSL modem configured as a router. The necessary ports are forwarded (both TCP and UDP) from the modem to the server. The connection attempt is made to the address that is the real (public) IP on the modem (router). NAT on the modem was verified by forwarding port 80 to the same server — that works fine. Here are the configs: (commented-out lines are the result of trial and error — i.e. the options that were tried and left commented out)

Article on ru-board

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

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