Jul 30, 2008
Jun 17, 2008
Fedora 9 & kde 4

Just a bunch of bugs.
Not, really, it looks very nice. Black screen,many widgets, transparency working by default, default mouse control support... but... too slow on ICH5 with 2 GB of RAM machine, where FC3 worked like a charm.
First of all (proud smile), I made Fedora installer came to the endless loop while checking installation media. :)
Second, had to disable RAID to make the system bootable after installation, cause while enabled RAID (but not used at all! the system is on non-raid disk, attached even to a different controller!) init failed somewhere in libdevmapper. Disabling RAID device helped. Will try to enable RAID volumes a bit later.
Setting left handed mouse was a real challenge - first tried to find KDE control center (Yes! sometimes I use standard GUI utilities ;) ) - no luck, KDE control center does not exist anymore! Moreover, there no standard KDE menu, for me it reminds MAC interface with it's finder, which is very-very inconvenient for a KDE user. So, I had to come to usual xmodmap - no wonder, it works, made sh script with setting xmodmap and added it to kde autostart, and what do you think? Now KDE crashes at startup with signal 15 :) Removed the script - all is working again :)
Finally found analogue of ControlCenter, now it's called SystemSettings and reminds GNOME, finally was able to make my mouse left handed :)
Anyway... It's nice ... O-)
Apr 28, 2008
LaVey...
It's not senseless... One of the greatest impression I've got from reading.
I would not call it 'satanism', but just an ode of atheism, 'rules' and 'sins' are logical, nothing revolutionary, but worth to read and think one more time.
"1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him." (c) "The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth"
music: "moonsorrow"
mood: tired
Apr 25, 2008
About traditions... or just one day from Astarta's life...
You know, I'm not religious, but once a year I make Easter cakes and color eggs. Cause my Grandma did this, my mama did (and does with me usually), now it's my turn. I like traditions in general, this makes us closer to each other when we do smth that our fore-parents used to do; also traditions is the only part of religion that could be somehow interesting for me, and Easter is, probably, the only Christian holiday when I go to church and do some staff. Of cause without any emotions, it's just funny to look to this religious masquerade in the same time from inside and outside. I even go inside the church, put candles near icons, but this atmosphere doesn't make me feel as a part of this community, I'm just doing a tradition and that's all, that's really beautiful. Russian Christian Church is beautiful as a special kind of art. I'll try to show you it a bit later - tomorrow, in case I will not forget to take a camera with me. Now my goal is to show you the preparation for the Easter, as we do it here in Russia, hope you'll get some fun from my story ;)
First and the most difficult part is making pastry (if lingvo is not wrong in the translation of this word from russan :-D). Let me skip all the culinary details - this could make you boring, which is completely not my aim:) . Just see. The process is started:
Meanwhile eggs are already done :)
Put the pastry to the warm place and could have 3-4 hours of rest.
/*time passed*/
Now it's time to put cakes to oven and wait for the results.
o! results:

Tomorrow will show you national russian flashmob of sanctifying cakes in church :)
mood: dreaming
music: still "Die Toten Hosen"
Apr 14, 2008
Apr 2, 2008
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Feb 1, 2008
world is full of magic:-)
00:1f.2 8086:27c3 8086:348f 01:04:00 ahci
should be INTEL? ;-)
now see:
---skipped--
2658adfe00 24 5f 49 44 45 24 da 33 31 01 08 40 00 00 00 00 |$_IDE$.31..@....|
2658adfe10 10 00 01 00 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
2658adfe20 00 40 9e 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 |.@..............|
2658adfe30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
---skipped--
really amazing! :-)))
Jan 16, 2008
[lol] the best question, I've ever got from developer
Хм, а ещё не подскажеш функция int f = open(dev, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK); в каком h-нике определена?
15:57:18 [----] XXXX:
Т.е. Я определения не нашел, полагаю что это линуксовый хедер будет. Или нет?
Jan 3, 2008
TuxRacer
If you ask me how I came to Linux World, I'll answer just with one word "Tux Racer". Really! Because of this game I installed first Linux distrib on my system, because of this game I left Windows (I just didn't know that there was a Win port :-D), and this is always the first game I install on a clean system:-)
I know all the roads, know where fishes hide, know where to brake and where to speed up:) just a fan:)
Today I found our that TuxRacer project is not dead! That a newer version exists with more fun and speed!
I'm almost happy! Compiled, run and playing!
Picture taken from the official site of the project: http://www.extremetuxracer.com
Enjoy and have fun!