Monday, December 15th, 2008
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Eee PC 901 screen seems awful, the keyboard is similar. But the worst part is the built-in BT is not compatible with stock Linux Xandros when it comes to EDGE. So is Samsung NC10 an alternative?
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После Twinhead Slimnote 486DX/33 я думал, никогда больше не обзаведусь ноутбуком. Начиналась мода (и производители переключились) на мощные супер-компьютеры с возможностью перевозки в автомобиле. Только недавно снова появилась перспектива получить лёгкий аппарат без наворотов, не требующий ограбления банка, и позволяющий работать с основными современными программами.
Вот купил ASUS Eee PC 901.
По сравнению с Twinhead получилось в 64 раза больше оперативной памяти (1024 МБ вместо 16), в 48 раз выше частота процессора и в 60 раз больше внешней памяти.
Пикселов на экране стало всего в 2 раза больше, квадратных дюймов вообще не прибавилось, зато они стали цветными и в пару раз увеличилось время автономной работы. К тому же, работу стало возможно разбавлять фильмами и музыкой.
Игрушка понравилась, но проявились косяки.
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
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Having some SQL fun with a large city's phone directory.
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- Шевченко
- Коваленко
- Ткаченко
- тройка лидеров среди “фамильных” пользователей «Укртелеком». Под этими фамилиями зарегистрировано соответсвенно 3761, 3537 и 3075 домашних телефонов в Киеве.
Самые телефонизированные улицы Киева:
- В. Маяковского Пр. (22364 телефонов)
- Героев Сталинграда Пр. (14736)
- Оболонский Пр. (13349)
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Интертелеком (”IT CDMA”) – единственный украинский телефонный оператор, не скрывающий от абонента его собственный номер.
Можно позвонить *94 и узнать свой номер телефона. Другие же операторы любят поиграть со своими абонентами в шпионов: звонишь в кол-центр по любому вопросу и первым делом получаешь встречный вопрос: “Назовите ваш номер!”. Некоторые телефонистки даже заявляют, что у них ваш номер не высвечивается, потому и спрашивают.
Дополнительно к *94 Интертелеком сделал онлайн Конвертер телефонных номеров. Позволяет узнать прямой номер абонента по его сетевому и наоборот. (Каждому абоненту Интертелеком с прямым номером обязательно присваивается второй, сетевой номер.)
Пока Интертелеком не поставил защиту (вроде captcha) от автоматизации доступа к конвертеру, я написал скрипт “в одну строку” и прогнал его по всему номерному пространству 8-094-xxxxxxx с шагом в 5000 номеров чтобы получить список диапазонов всех прямых номеров оператора.
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
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Is time-tracking software like Visual TimeAnalyzer any good? Are fancy charts with questionable correctness worth of complicating worker's interactions with computer even further? Probably an old-fashioned week-planner, either paper or electronic with printing option, would make it better as a registration device as per Peter Drucker's recommendations on time accounting and analyzing for more effective management.
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Питер Друкер (или, вернее, Дракер) пишет, что руководителю, да и любому занятому человеку, важно чётко фиксировать, на что используется время и периодически анализировать такие записи.
Высшие управляющие (для кого, в основном, и пишет Друкер) обычно обходятся без компьютера в своей деятельности – это уже упрощает процесс учёта, т.к. именно компьютер способствует частому переключению между заданиями. Кроме того, они могут прибегнуть к помощи секретаря для выполнения функции учёта.
Что же делать нам, обычным трудягам?
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
As you know, UNIX time is counted in seconds since Thursday, January 1 1970 Midnight (called the Epoch).
For the last three years admins around the world have been watching double-ones in logs’ timestamps, like in
1123456789
Today it’s all different.
The 1200000000th second since the “epoch” was reached on Thu Jan 10 21:20:00 2008.
For a few more hours to come the nice sight of “12000″ can be observed in your logs. Have a look.
Note that we are ultimately heading towards the 2147483647th second (2 power 31 less 1), on which the time counters of 32-bit computers will overflow on Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 and the time will start over from Thu Jan 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT (or from Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901, depending on whom you ask).
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Every time I upgraded an HDD or otherwise needed to move directory trees between disks, I faced an annoying MS Windows “feature”: timestamps get updated to current time on the copies of directories.
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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FireFox, сам по себе являющийся "бесплатным" продуктом, оказывается, спонсирует "бесплатный" Линукс.
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Did you ever wonder at the Linux “distros” sprouting wildly? They are countless already; nobody knows the exact number: Knoppix, CentOS, Ubuntu, Kubuntu… The most surprising part is they compete. Not with Microsoft – MS is and probably will for a looong time to come enjoy their monopoly – with each other! Every distro’s outlet boasts about its market share.
Now, which “market share”? If it’s free, where’s the market?
Well, it’s not really free, wonder it not, you – users – pay for “free” Linux. Here’s how.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
GnuCash team has been famous in the past for their harshness towards anything “Windows”. No wonder – the 1st version of GC was written in 1997 in Motif for X Window System which was (and still is?) light years ahead of substandard Microsoft Windows GUI in terms of professional usability.
It seemed nobody expected them (GnuCash) to release a Windows port. Me wasn’t exception either. So when I had to move from X to MS Windows I also had to keep a subsidiary UNIX machine (thank God, virtual computer was OK) special for UNIX applications, most notably for GnuCash.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Since my very first days with a GSM handset I’ve been heavily using this little yet essential service – Email-to-SMS gateway. In fact, this part of the mobile package was determinative in deciding to enter then-undue mobile realm.
Fast forward few years to now, and what I see is “Push e-mail” as the hottest topic in today’s wireless business world. The whole enterprises like BlackBerry sprung out of this sole concept – “always-on” email.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Very long ago I heard a tale (perhaps from Google itself) about how bad (and dangerous from SEO / SE banning point of view) it is to use extremely low contrast text, i.e. bright yellow text on white background or dark-brown on black. It went like you could be banned from the search engine index immediately for that kind of stunt.
It is pretty clear – by this deceptive tactic you could hide irrelevant keywords from human visitors and present them with some unwanted content of your choice. At the same time those keywords presumably are indexed by search engines making your pages findable by wider audience.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
The two most common approaches in Web analytics are:
- Web server logfile analysis
- Page tagging
Page tagging is the method of choice from the commercial standpoint. However, it’s got its characteristic drawbacks:
- changes to the web application are needed
- vendor lock-in of some sort takes place (regardless whether you use a subscription-based solution or acquire a hosted one).
On the other hand there is one nice web stats tool operating in the old good logfile analysis realm, which is AWStats. Until recently it was a reliable work horse for many webmasters delivering quite useful reports about origin breakdown, sessions (visits duration), lists of landing pages (”entry”) & exit pages – categories commonly associated with the more complex page tagging statistics systems.
What happened to it?
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Ever wanted to set up a weekly or monthly mailing list for your blog?
FeedBurner is good for a daily email dispatch which is attainable by just “burning” your feed and activating mail service for it.
But how about less frequent mailings?
And how about selecting only the best articles to include in those rare mails?
It’s easy. Better yet, it can be automated with standard components for your WordPress installation.
To set up a Weekly (or Monthly) Top Posts mailing list just follow these 5 simple steps:
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