Jun/090
Markus Schulz Pres. Dakota – Thoughts Become Things
Today Markus Schulz has released a new album under his other nickname/alias – Dakota. The album is a little bit different than his recent productions, it explores in deeper the dark side of dance music – minimalistic trance, to progressive techno and deep house. It is released under the alias Dakota in order not to confuse the fans that Schulz is changing his style (commercial huh? who doesn’t like $$$). I like the style of Markus in general and i like this, as well as the previous releases. I would recommend this album to any fan of electronic music, especially for those who listen to GDJB, to see in which direction his talent is developing. So far my favorite track is Dakota – Lima (Original Mix), others are not bad but nothing outstanding.
Mar/090
life with JTAC :)
Yeah OK i lied – THEY didn’t fix it :/ Well at least i didn’t want to lie, i just hoped for the good :) As it turns out my everyday life is still connected with JTAC and looking for MAC addresses that our EX4200 decides not to learn. (or for whatever reason discards them just after being learned). I can not say we have a progress in our problem although lots of things happened that made me think that things are going better now. In the mean time Juniper decided that our switch had a hardware defect and we send us a new one. That sounded great and we have removed the old one, rebuild the virtual chassis with the member and hoped for the good. Nothing more misleading – the situation is exactly the same :( Well now our last hope is the new Service Releases of JUNOS that is supposed to be out in the middle of April, i am looking forward to that date so we can move on with different things and stop dealing with MAC addresses.
Feb/091
Linux gets Goooed, I got Tomato and They fixed our EX4200
Those things happened closely at the same time and they are all for good ! First thanks to some good people Linux gets a native game World of Goo. BIG Thanks to two ex – EA employees who BTW. had spent their entire savings to develop the game. I only wish those guys will get their savings back, it might be hard since 90% of Windows users who play that game have STOLEN IT!!! So far i only heard about World of Goo but didint have time to try it personally, but now when a native linux port is available i will give a shot for sure!!!
Second i got rid of DD-WRT, and become a happy Tomato user. One evening i decided to give it a try and i will never come back, and I got good reasons for it. First with Tomato my net is 40 % faster, second QoS really works, third i found that, do some research and its actually true. DD-WRT uses some crippled drivers both for wireless NIC and Ethernet ports. Since i got Tomato my ping to my provider lowered with 0,4 ms !!! My router is always accessible through SSH and WEB, so far it never froze! (dd-wrt used to freeze 2-3 times a week!!!).
And the last one from good things is that they (JTAC), finally admitted and i hope fixed our problem. In November we got 2 Junipers EX4200, and since then we understood that we have just become a part of Juniper beta testers team and that we better get familiar with JTAC and how to manage a support case there. Our problem was that sometimes somehow and somewhere (totaly random times and places), the switch would refuse to learn certain MACs or it would not forward traffic between them. The last secure meeting (one of 1000 we had in the past 2 moths) revealed a problem – The Engineer who was looking at our switch discovered that PFE had two modes of MAC learning enabled – Packet Transfer and Message Mode. They were working concurrently in the ASIC and conflicting each other. After disabling the 1st one the situation seems to be stabilized, and i hope that was causing our troubles. The annoying this is that it took us more than 2 months to dig through their bureaucracy in order to reach an engineer…
Jan/090
ubuntuforums.org down or maintanance?
When i tried to open my fav OS forums today i discovered a strange message, come on canonical, i hope that i maitancace not some problem :P Right after i open Ubuntu forums i usally visit wikipedia to refresh my knowledge and not that long ago i wrote a post about ubuntu going enterprise link. Hope wikipedia dont have the same problems :P
Jan/090
new year ?
For any of you there far away that might hit that blog by mistake while searching something on google, i happy new year! Lots of things happened that year (at least for me)! The major one is that i have changed my workplace (yeah i have quit my previous job!), my current employee is Online Direct. I have so say that i am happy to be there, i got there maybe not because of my professional knowledge about managing enterprise networks, but through a friend whom i know from my university (damn that uni is useful for something after all!). So far so good i have to day i have two pieces of Juniper Ex-4200 under may hand and i have to say its a pleasure to manage those masterpieces – blow me all you Cisco guys ! :P
Nov/082
trancetraffic down?
my favorite music tracker is down for some reason, until 5 min. ago i could ping it but now its down completely :( i hope its a temporary problem…
Oct/080
utorrent on macosx !
Something that was long awaited is coming to Mac users – utorrent! If you download torrents then you know what a pain it was on mac. Now things are changing rapidly – currently i am using Transmission which runs natively on leopard. The program is ok, i have used it before in ubuntu, but it definately has some problems with high speed downloads. My favorite torrent client comes from windows – µTorrent. The development of mac version has been ongoing from quite a long time (2 years?), and users have been pretty eager to use the new version. The µTorrent were spammed with questions about when is the mac version going to come out, resulting in moderators locking every single topic that was concerned with the mac :) My advice – to pledge your support go to mac.utorrent.com and show the developer that you are interested! I download lots of torrents and cant wait till the stable release comes out, of and BTW a beta leaked out just recentely – grab it here!
Oct/080
Starbucks in Bulgaria
If you are a coffee drinker, there is some good news for you! I usually brew my own coffee in the morning and to be honest i like my home made brew the best, but i love the different flavors that Starbucks has. Bulgaria is not that far behind in the coffee business. the first one to enter the market was Onda Coffee Break (about 4 years ago), then about two years ago Coffeeheaven followed. While Onda was not that bad, it was not as good as i would like it to be, Coffeeheaven was good but super duper expansive. Now that Starbucks is coming to Bulgaria, i already know that the price is going to be a killer one, but on the other side i think they have the best coffee :) so i cant wait to have my pumpkin spice latte!
Oct/080
are linux flash nightmares over? probably not
Thats a good question, all that time i had to view flash based content in my browser my processor suffered, and i suffered at the same time because the browsing pleasure was very low. On October 15 Adobe released a new flash – version 10. And guess what on the download page there is a direct link for Ubuntu 8.04+! Being a Ubuntu user from a couple of years i was very pleasantly surprised. I removed my old flash install and flawlessly installed the new version. With new versions there is always now hopes for better but not this time :( It crashed on the adobe.com page, second impression it kills my work Ubuntu box that is equipped with AMD Sempron 3000+. Watching a small youtube clip consumed 60 % of my processor resources. So nothing changed, i hope the first crash was just a single accident :)
Oct/080
Amarok on Mac OSX becomes reality
Yes this is true and i confirm it, after long time compiling and having end up compiling something which was totally unusable and ugly i finally got my hand on something which is 10000 time better then awesome -
