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Wed, 21 Mar 2007

Climbing evening.


In a masochistic^W^W^Wself-improving process of climbing on negative slope with weights on arms and legs I did some progress - basically I tried to move about 4-5 holds up over one trace and then move down over another trace andthen repeate it until I have a power - this ends up with virtually any piece of body aching as I struck several times with a train, or at least with a wall.
Some times I ask myself, why do I do it - why I spent several hours with such loads without significant (or at least somehow largely noticeble) result? It does not look too cool, it does not end up with better climbing results (at leat I can not test it since I climb alone), instead I could seat in a cafe, drink a tea and talk about something...
But I think I know the answer - I sublimate (hmm, loking into dictionary for that word I did not find appropriate translation, I meant somthing like 'change' or 'replace'), and I do it for myself and likely will not change anything at all.
Does above text sound strange? Yes, it is.

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Unified socket trie and booting.


Ok, it seems to be somehow completed - at least it works for netlink sockets, but my system does not boot, since I use device mapper (LVM), which requires special nodes created in /dev/ by udevd, which does not start (at least in Debian Etch), since Unix sockets are not supported (yet) in my unified cache.
But at least it does not crash (yet).
I will try to implement Unix domain sockets today before I will go climbing, but I'm not sure I will have enough time (I need to complete some paid job work first). When Unix sockets are ready, my system will boot and networking will start, and only then real troubles will appear.

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Graphic tablet.


I've just bought a simple Genius G-Pen 450 for my sister.
Whlist it is here, I've managed to make it working in Debian Etch with "wizardpen" driver. Although movement and pressure level is not very convenient in Gimp, I think it is a matter of settings.
Marina uses windows and she is not a professional artist, so this simple model will be quite good for her skills.

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