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Sun, 04 May 2008
Tanks in the city!
Wanted to visit Moscow and look how we play balalayka, drink vodka and walk with bears?
Not now, we drive our tanks instead.
The Victory Day repetition, april 29 night.
Tue, 29 Apr 2008
New and old toys.
Real enlargement...
The only thing missing is photo skills...
But I work on it.
After I've spent quite a lot of money I suddenly decided that
it is a really good feeling - to have what you want, no matter what the price is.
I can not afford some things, but looking really closely I've decided
that having lots of smaller really cool stuff is better (for now) than collecting
for a (really) long time to get something really big. I already did that,
now its time for smaller every-day fun :)
So, no bike for now. I was torn between Honda CBR 400-600, BMW K1200 or around,
or classical chopper models, no Harley of course, but... Anyway I'm not
able to register it and get bike numbers, and I do not have a bike driving license.
The same applies to cars (what I already had I really do not want to get again, but what I want
requires some). So, my simple stuff.
Tue, 08 Apr 2008
Social hacking.
How to survive in office (in russian) -
report about office life seen by a reporter, who worked as a secretary several weeks.
A real social hacking imho.
Mon, 07 Apr 2008
A Theory. Antisocial theory.
Quite for a while a have quite interesting but very antisocial theory in my
mind. A hacker's behavioural theory.
Lets talk about male here (frankly, I never saw a female hacker with similar
behavioural aspects).
Main theory key is about the fact, that when person has something really
interesting for himself, he does not want to spend his (limited)
time with others. Just because he is so selfish (in a good meaning of this word),
that he just does not need any one near to spend time with, just because he can
create or get real problem for himself and devote all the time to it. There can be lots
of other people around, but eventually (if they are not a really good friends,
who understand that immediate timeframe does not matter) all they understand
that theirs time does not return back.
Such people do not really think about others, they think about the problem, which
lives in mind right now. This does not always mean that they do not like other people (which
actually can be true), but only that they are somewhere in another place with
another thoughts.
Maybe they will return back to usual life and devote theirs time
to other people not to some problems, or maybe not...
Such a theory... Created by looking around.
Wed, 19 Mar 2008
Temptation is over...
One man, 12 nights (13 days), one bottle of cuban rum and
little bits of scotch whisky, 82 'House M.D' series... feels good.
Meanwhile got three 2-way Xeon servers with 2-4 (I forgot) gigs of RAM and
gigabit link between them. Not bad for start.
Also gathered lots of power and inspiration, so, here is a plan:
- second filesystem contest, now I will test btrfs 0.13 and btrfs-unstable in addition to previous ext[234], reiser[34], jfs and xfs running for the first prizes in dbench, iozone, postmark, maildir performance bench and simple file creation micro-benchmark. Results will show need for the yet another local filesystem. Making bets?
- fix two problems in distributed storage: there is a leak in mirror resync and unability to start a storage if config contains wrong network addresses.
- rewrite core pohmelfs algorithms to make it not good, but really good. This change will make it first against CRFS and CacheFS :) POHMELFS is not where I want it to be right now.
- fix HIFN driver bug.
But nevertheless, stay tuned, lots of interesting stuff is coming!
Sun, 16 Mar 2008
Struggle against a temptation.
I can not win in a fight with some issues (or better
call theirs real names: temptations), so... there is
an old method to solve this problem:
if you can not win against some temptation, just fall for itThat is what I'm doing for the last couple of days: I already watched 2.5 seasons of "House M.D." series and expect the last ones to complete soon...
That is why I do not write about real hacking problems I work with, but... stay tuned, I'm just accumulating a
Mon, 10 Mar 2008
Touching someone's ego.
There are two ways to point to mistakes made by others:
tell them "hey, you have an error :)" and "you have error here and there".
This can be ended up with
"yeah, that's a good fix" and "you do not know the things, stops doing this things".
It looks like there is no difference in the first messages, but results
will be very contrast. If you do not care
about communication with the person who made a mistake, but only cares
about things got fixed, there is no difference on how to point to the error,
but be ready (although you do not care) that person will reply to you
quite aggressively and can resist to make a solution if it is not vital
for the things being discussed. It is of course wrong and kind of childish,
but that is how people very frequently reply. If you care about communication
with the person in question, then speak like you want to be spoken back.
It is not very simple actually, but do not expect an easy solution with
teaching tone.
This reminds me how kernel maintainers reply to people who make some contribution.
There are very good people who start a discussion friendly even if patch
or question is really wrong, this can end up with sending to mail archive or faq.
There are persons (we all know who) which only replies: this is wrong,
you have a race. Sometimes a race places can be pointed.
So, be cool with others and do not pretent to be the smartest one.
That of course touches me too... I'm frequently a hard one to talk with.
Fri, 07 Mar 2008
Just a random though on photography.
I believe that photographers which only make black and white photos
are not as good as those who do not fear to make coloured photos.
BW ones almost every time are good, while coloured are usually not that
interesting, and changing them to BW frequently fixes the shot.
Just a humble opinion...
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A gentle hint.
I am antisocial. Not always, but frequently. And never in a good known company.
Got a number of whiskey drops (solely for cure purpose) and made this creature.
A gentle hint: officially.
Fri, 29 Feb 2008
A music created solely from Windows 98/XP system sounds.
Enjoy.
Should be filled under 'boyan of the day'?
Thu, 28 Feb 2008
Yellow bus eats your brain.
Or flying bus model.
And cutter.
Wanna one? Get it here.
Fri, 15 Feb 2008
Richard Stallman in Russia and related problems.
Here are number of interesting moments in this miserable
melodrama
(got via Linux Today News).
Stallman wanted to visit Russia this March, and parliament member Viktor Alksnis
promoted his visit and wanted to help with 'administration issues'.
Then LOR (www.linux.org.ru, one of the most popular linux sites
in Russia) moderator Sergey Udaltsov (who lives in Ireland)
sent a letter to Richard, where
pointed that Alksnis is not a good man, he also noted about Alksnis'
"fight against the independence of the Baltic countries" in late 80s.
Stallman then said that he does not want Alksnis to organize his visit.
Well, my couple of points about this stupid situation.
First, Alksnis is really not a very smart person in IT, and it looks
very much like he is a usual careerist, since I do not know about his
work at all except stupid idea of creation of 'national OS',
probably using 'nanotechnologies' (it is a modern trend here :).
Second, step of Sergey Udaltsov is very well braindamaged - while it is ok to
describe who Alksnis is, but pointing to Baltic independence is even
more stupid than 'national os' idea.
So, my simple point is that both Viktor Alksnis and Sergey Udaltsov just
wanted to make some self-advertisement profit from Rishcard Stallman's visit
and do not really do it because of open source. Although
self-advertisement is not a bad idea (you read this blog :), such movements
are stupid.
If Stallman got problems with visa (I'm surprised if it takes more than two weeks),
then it means he does not really want to
visit Russia, for example I got kernel summit invitation more than two month
ahead of the meeting, which was enough to get visa (it required two (!) visits
to the UK visa office just to give and get back documents,
it took two (!) days to check documents, and it was
possible to order a courier,
although previous year time frame was shorter). If he does not want,
why would we care?
If someone wants to visit a country, he can find a way to do that himeself
and do not wash own brain with stupid rethorics.
I think it will be a cause for Richard not to visit, since it really
looks like he does not want to do it :)
Tue, 01 Jan 2008
Happy New Year!
2007 was very interesting year for me, I made and started
so many cool things and 2008 will be for sure even better.
I'm having so good time now, and really like how it goes!
Thanks a lot for all my friends for theirs time and just for themselfs,
thanks to angels and daemons, which guarded me and created troubles,
thanks for everyone who are around so I made my life how it is.
Happy New Year!