1. Hooray. Finally got Subversion figured out. Now thinking about where it would be better to live — on the work server (it has better uptime) or on the home machine (which will stay with me if I change jobs)? I’m thinking on the work machine for now, and if needed — migrating shouldn’t take long. Plus I could set up replication and pull repositories from somewhere (from home) automatically. 2. Oh no. Something I’m doing is wrong. This is already the second time my wiki has broken. I write articles, drop configs/scripts in there, put links to those pages on the front page, and then at some point it starts looking like this: And I can’t figure out what’s causing it. By the way, it’s not just the front page that gets messed up.

So much going on… There’s no free time at all. But that’s a good thing — girlfriend, grad school, interesting stuff at work. I’ve been banging my head against OpenLDAP for a week, trying to set up a single user database for all services — mail, wiki… Can’t find decent documentation on how to actually use it. Yesterday I installed eGroupWare — quite a powerful collaborative work tool. Very happy with it, very feature-rich. Hopefully it’ll help me be a bit more organized. And it should come in handy for colleagues too — reminders, knowledge base and all that…

Trust those who hear the ringing clear

Of bells, and not of coins that clink.

Who measure conscience by your measure,

Whose “yes” means yes, whose “no” means no!

Hasten to those who long for meeting,

Who wait for you as for a feast.

One evening spent with them each year

Can feed the soul a whole year through.

Cherish those who are dear to your heart,

Over whom time holds no sway.

So… openSUSE is installed. On the plus side — sound works out of the box, laptop special keys work, 3D graphics was easy to set up. Things I’d like to have:

• mounting UFS slices. For now I can only mount /, but I need /usr
• the webcam works in Kopete, but refuses to work in Skype
• I want to pull the KDE icons and theme from BSD (because the current one looks horribly like XP)
• Samba — I need it at work
• also need to connect a network printer there
• found Bluetooth but haven’t learned how to use it yet
• need to learn how to lower the CPU frequency to save power

Dear me! Writing to you from work, running openSUSE. Tomorrow, as you know, I’m heading to Zaporizhzhia for five days for some unknown exam session, so I’m rushing to share my impressions from the front line. So, I finally installed SUSE on a proper real machine. What I liked: Wine was already installed there, and the SUSE disc offered to install itself via autorun, registered itself in boot.ini, and after a reboot — set itself up. It’s really great that the DVD comes packed with tons of stuff, and the KDE graphics don’t need to be compiled or pulled manually. By the way, I also installed GNOME — in my favorite Radio-T podcast the brave Mac guys bobuk and umputun praised it so much that I couldn’t resist taking a look at what it’s actually like :) On the downside — KDE is already at version 4.2 or higher, but the disc only has 4.0. I’ll look into how to update (I’ll mention in passing that so far I’m liking KDE 4). Special thanks to the German SUSE team for proper localization. The software is translated (only a few gaps noticed in YaST so far), keyboard layouts work out of the box and even switch the Windows way, which I’d already gotten unused to (Caps Lock is much more convenient). Now I need to check Bluetooth, hibernation, and graphics (the last one I can’t quite figure out how to test yet — probably install Counter-Strike under Wine). The machine has an onboard NVIDIA GPU, so everything should be fine. One unresolved question remains: the large partition on the hard drive. Since three systems will live here — Windows, openSUSE, and BSD (I’ll start with PC-BSD, which recently released version 7, and if I don’t like it — I’ll install FreeBSD) — I’ll probably have to format it as FAT32 so I can write to it from all systems (I have long and painful experience with ntfs3g). On that note, I say goodbye, shut down, and run. Coming up in future episodes: - connecting a proper monitor to X — will it detect that it got a 22"? - Russian filenames on flash drives and SD cards - burning discs from Linux - connecting a phone: Bluetooth and syncing the address/phone book - 3D in Linux — is Wine really as good as I think it is

You can find everything in torrents. That’s why I love them. Packed trackers with detailed file descriptions and user comments are a big advantage of BitTorrent over eDonkey and other even- (or odd-) toed ungulates. On Windows, it’s hard to find a better client than uTorrent. But what do you use to download from FreeBSD? Let’s find out.

Transmission. I liked the name right away. Trrrransmission. Wow! Sounds like it’ll kick into gear and just go, go, go! It installs three things: - the client itself - the transmission daemon - a web interface for the daemon I liked it. Simple as a pencil — nothing superfluous. One problem: it doesn’t seed. And it turns out there are no settings to dig into to make it seed :)

ugh. everything is crawling :( but the VPN is decent, works fine

In nearly 24 years of uptime for my biped, bipedal, featherless system — the first case of a serious Denial of Service. not that bad :)

Author: Bob Walsh (original article). Translation: Sergey Mozhaisky It started rather innocently a few years ago, didn’t it? It didn’t feel like breaking the law or like a crime. Nobody got hurt — if there’s no victim, there’s no crime, right? Besides, everyone does it! It’s no worse than that candy you swiped off the shelf at the store, right? They didn’t catch you then, and they won’t catch you now.

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