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my 45 workspaces
Most windows managers out there are windows oriented, so that you have single desktop and many overlapping windows. This is true for MS Windows, Mac OS, Gnome and KDE. There are ways to set up several...
View Articlebittorrent and VoIP in the same sentence
At my home I have an modest ADSL line with a standard 128kbits upload. The upload is shared between several computers, an bittorrent process and asterisk (VoIP) server. I have looked around for an...
View ArticleAudiobook as a podcast
Audiobooks have several specific features that differentiate them from bunch of songs and make it hard to listen to them using regular audio player:* They can have the same title/album/artist headers,...
View Articleadaptec CLI management tool
Recently I had to install adaptec CLI management tool on an ubuntu 8.10 amd64 server. Despite the fact that aacraid driver is present in kernel, it took me a lot of time to find the management tools...
View ArticleHebrew thesaurus for stardict
Someone asked me to find him stardict-compatible version of hebrew thesaurus. I have found torrent link that has english-hebrew, hebrew-english dictionaries and hebrew thesaurus. All files are in...
View ArticleO GTalk team, where were thou?
Instant messaging (IM) penetrates our lives deeper and deeper, whether we like it or not. Most people start using whatever their peers so to be able to network with them. For that reason, switching...
View Articlemp10 DV003-XXL manual on russian
Инструкция по эксплуатации "шпионского фотоаппарата/камеры" MP10 (DV-003) на русском:http://skliarie.meshanet.com/skliarie_blog/mp10_russian.odt
View ArticleFiddler on Linux
A colleague of mine (web developer) recently undertook effort to move from Windows to Ubuntu. One last obstacle was lack of adequate analogs of program "Fiddler". Wireshark is too general to work with...
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Buggy Intel RAID
Recently I solved an very nasty problem in the Intel RAID controller. The problem took me and my colleagues many hours and hairs, so I decided to describe it here in hope it will help someone.The Intel...
View ArticleHow to install fb2pdf
Recently I installed fb2pdf on ubuntu maverick amd64. As there is no installation instructions anywhere, I decided to write down my notes I took during the installation:cd /var/wwwsvn checkout...
View ArticleThoughts on photos-management system
Nowadays everybody around me have digital cameras. Photos that I am interested to look at are everywhere - on facebook, flickr, picasa, people's harddisks, some photo management system, etc. Rarely...
View ArticleLLS=LXC+LVM+Snapshots
In our company developers deal with massive datasets that needs to be easy to copy, modify a fraction of it and scrape. Snapshotting is an ideal solution here. Each developer has a personal vserver...
View Articlexkb files for russian and hebrew keyboard switchers
Long ago, my xkb-based keyboard switcher method stopped working. I then moved over to using gnome-keyboard-properties to set up the keyboard switching. This worked for another several years until...
View Articlexls2csv using python-uno
While several xls2csv converters exist, on a recent assignment none of them were able to convert a multi-sheet, 300+MB Excel file into CSV format.While searching for possible solutions, I found this...
View ArticleEasy creating and destroying of lxc vservers
One big advantage of using amazon's EC2 servce is its deceptively easy way to create new servers - it is just API call or mouseclick away. The actual physical machine allocation, OS image copying,...
View ArticlePlaylist detection on python
There are several popular playlists used for internet radio streaming: asx, m3u, smil, asf, pls... The playlist extension is not always visible in the URL that an ipradio station returns. Furthermore,...
View ArticleLaggy ssh with clear network
Recently, after reboot, my ssh sessions to remote servers started behaving sluggishly, sometimes taking several seconds for typed characters to appear. The lag was especially noticeable with last...
View ArticleMultiple mysql engines on the same server
Someone asked me for a howto on setting up multiple mysql engines on the same linux server. There are many articles on the topic, but none provides an ready-to-use set of files which one can simply...
View ArticleEnsure emails are accounted for
Ensure emails are accounted forSysadmins often set up scripts that send back "OK" or "Error" emails, but there is no mechanism to send alert if *no* email was received for certain time period. Lack of...
View ArticleLenovo IdeaPad A10 (Android) hands-on review
Being the "family geek" I am often asked for laptop recommendations. More often than not, functionality requirements are so low that even chromebook will be sufficient. Actually I already recommended...
View ArticleO GTalk team, where were thou? (part II)
Four full years passed since my last post on GTalk. Unfortunately I can't say much good about Google Instant Messenger efforts. It looks they would like everybody to switch from XMPP-based GTalk to...
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GRUB-based multiple iso booting flash drive
With huge USB flash drives of today it is sad that one can't easily put several bootable ISO images on it and have nice on-boot selection menu.GRUB to the rescue!Historically GRUB is being used for...
View ArticleO GTalk team, where were thou? (part III) (AKA: The other shoe dropped).
Today it happened for the first time. GTalk team, silently, without telling anyone, stopped messages sent using XMPP to be delivered to Android Hangouts clients. This caused me to miss important alert...
View ArticleMYSQL/BTRFS/NVME failure
It is a very bad idea to run database (especially production one with lots of I/O) on BTRFS because the filesystem at any random time might become readonly:Oct 24 12:30:22 db02 kernel: BTRFS: error...
View ArticleO GTalk team, where were thou? (part IV: The END)
It is finally happened:Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on ThursdayTook 12 years to die:O GTalk team, where were thou? (part III) (AKA: The other shoe dropped). (2017)O...
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