infofarmer braindumps

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:48:00 +0300

Just redid new account automation for @gubkin to build on LDAP and NFS. Had to relax security a bit :-(

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0300

mutt is really faster with tokyocabinet (thanks @Keltounet!), but it’s still rather slow, and now buggy with new ncurses :(

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:59:00 +0300

mutt is dying on me and there’s no alternatives. Alpine? sup? gmail? everything is so clumsy! :(

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:22:00 +0300

http://foursquare.com says “413 Request Entity Too Large nginx/0.7.64”

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:17:00 +0300

Ironically, http://demo.liftweb.net/ (Lift based on Scala/JVM) seems to be dreadfully slow.

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:38:00 +0300

Phronix benchmarks… as authoritative as always. Now it’s Debian/kFreeBSD vs Linux.

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:57:00 +0300

Apple Keyboard feels so weird. fn as an edge key. It hurts me.

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:10:00 +0300

Listen to random audio. html5 audio mp3, falls back to ogg, falls back to flash. http://heka.cenkes.org/audio.sh

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:06:00 +0300

Listen to random audio. html5 audio mp3, falls back to ogg, falls back to flash. Tested in 30+ popular web browsers.

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:59:00 +0300

New chromium for FreeBSD build (2010-01-20), http://chromium.jaggeri.com/

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:55:00 +0300

Latest Kindle for PC does not seem to run under wine.

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:04:00 +0300

Redmine wiki lacks auto-parenting for newly created topics :-(

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:54:00 +0300

Facebook: “Our systems have detected that infofarmer@freebsd.org is no longer a valid email.” WUT?

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:12:00 +0300

Today I killed my stomach with sweets :-) :-( Sweet life is sometimes not a pleasant one.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:03:00 +0300

Spent time installing redmine only to discover it doesn’t support documentation versioning. FAIL.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:11:00 +0300

hm, gmountver(8). The idea looks very specific, almost hacky, but could be useful.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:22:00 +0300

Hurray! «me» now means both IPv4 and IPv6 in ipfw on FreeBSD-current.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:45:00 +0300

Such a well-written spam message! Impeccable English and even a link to Wikipedia. If only all spam were like this…

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:39:00 +0300

Wow, car number plates are easily readable on Yandex (Russian Google) street view.

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:27:00 +0300

free.napster.com — sounds like 32kbps mono mp3s... with lala and spotify around... at least Roxette is present.

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:29:00 +0300

WriteRoom, textroom, Q10, ommwriter, ... — poor restless souls in search for one true vim in a full-screen terminal.

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:01:00 +0300

Shazam from Ovi refuses to start on my Nokia E63. And SoundHound lacks a trial version. Fail.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:50:00 +0300

Is Perl5 dying? Facts say it’s well alive, but so many geeks have been bashing it for years.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:32:00 +0300

The first rule of xml - do not use xml /http://friendfeed.com/asimplesystem

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:02:00 +0300

Coverage-wise, Grooveshark wins hands down, thanks to crowd-sourcing. Not very legal, but it’s the future.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:26:00 +0300

Chromium on FreeBSD is convenient if only because it doesn’t crash nearly as much as Firefox does with flash enabled.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0300

Listening to Spotify on FreeBSD/amd64 under wine in Russia :-)

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:18:00 +0300

Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle are both on lala.com, but not Roxette… Something is not quite right.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:38:00 +0300

spotify.com tends to say: 500 Internal error, powered by CherryPy 2.3.0

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:16:00 +0300

Michael Jackson dominates Ovi music store…

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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:08:00 +0300

I officially (but very secretely) have a terrific new job since yesterday. http://twitpic.com/y6cqy Mood: very grateful

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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:02:00 +0300

Moscow downtown. Where it is ridiculously difficult to get a decent business uplink for less than an arm and a leg.

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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:12:00 +0300

Left Seamonkey 2.0.2 overnight with 1 html5 audio tab (http://moztw.org/demo/audioplayer/) — it now takes 100% cpu even w/ no tabs.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:11:00 +0300

Ironically, viewing huge W3C standards tends to hang my poor Firefox.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:24:00 +0300

FreeBSD commit logs are so much like twitter, only we have a great OS as a side effect.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:18:00 +0300

Oh, and Rui Paulo has just updated FreeBSD’s 802.11s mesh code to D4.0. Not that I have tried meshing so far.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:08:00 +0300

Jira requires a java app server to run. And I don’t want to support an elephant. Hosted solution is from $150/mo. Not for me, atm.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:02:00 +0300

At last, in a somewhat titanic coup, Ed Schouten pushes FreeBSD-CURRENT off utmp to utmpx.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:14:00 +0300

Note to meself: supported Flash codecs (not many): http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402866.html

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Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:28:00 +0300

A major Moscow street camera integrator now caught providing random images instead of feeds and spreading viruses among rivals.