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 -
Oct/080
ubuntu server is going enterprise
Canonicals efforts to popularise the ubuntu server editions have some visable effects – Wikimedia Foundations adopted ubuntu as their server platform! That was something very pleasant for me to see. It definitely proves the reliability that ubuntu provides to is users. There is nothing that they have to proved to me – i use ubuntu from 4 years and i think its great, but there is still a lot to do to convince those hard minded Red Hat and Novell administrators that ubuntu is worth giving a try.
Oct/080
Don’t you hate itunes?
Ok by now i can cay i am a pretty confident mac user, managed to compile some of my open source favorites, as well as got used to some of the mac substitutes for what i used till now. I even bought a mighty mouse to enhance my mac experience (to be honest i don’t like the one button idea). But there is this one thing that drives me nuts, its called ITUNES !!! I literally hate this stupid piece of software! I used it the first time when i bought an ipod last year, and i thought it was pretty stupid but then my girlfriend took over the ipod and i didn’t get to used it that much. Now that i have a mac i was brutally forced by apple to use their full of bullshit music player! Can’t apple admit that people get their music from different sources then just their stupid store ? Screw the stupid DRMs :/ Now i thought this would be pretty simple – you dont like this software then you try something else, right? But for mac there is no something else ! I compiled amarok and used it for a while in X11 but it is unstable, sloooow, and there is no database support :( Well there is nothing left but waiting for the official mac port of amarok2.
Sep/080
Amarok on OS X ?
Well well check this out Cant wait till Amarok 2 will be released ! I love Amarok it is the very best music player i have ever used, and it is one of those programs i miss the most, now i am going to try to compile from the how to thats given there. But overall it would be great if Amarok officialy supported Mac.
Sep/080
no more porn & ubuntu
I found that one while reading linux haters, it is in deed the most bizzare reason to switch operating systems i have ever heard of. Check it yourself link. Funny and sad at the same time, but i think its mostly funny :D In fact i laughed my ass when i have seen it !
Aug/080
transformation
And it happened at last, i was thinking of it for a long time and now the money conditions allowed it – I bought a MacBook ;) Right now i am in the phase of what i call transformation from linux, and so far so good. The shiny small notebook works as good as it looks good. The only thing that i miss from linux was the dock. Although Mac had it first – Awn simply works better, and there is muuuuch more you can do with it.
Jun/080
DD-WRT
Yesterday i did something which i would never do in a normal world :) Recently our network bought a neighboring network with around 110 clients and we were in the process of connecting them to our network. But yesterday something unexpected happened – the MAN provider refused to leases the optical fiber to them and about 90 ppl stayed without net for half a day. As a quick solution to the problem we connected out fiber connectedly to their office and i tried to SNAT their net to our router but for some reason (it always works doesn’t it?) i didn’t succeed to do that :( So the best solution was… DD-WRT :D Since the office they have is used as a warehouse now we had a couple of Linksys WRT54G, i grabbed one and quickly flashed it with fresh DD-WRT v24, NATed the old IPs and routed them through our router. I didn’t expect a miracle to happen but it it all went nice and smooth – the network was feed up with Internet again. For the whole day poor Broadcom worked just fine caring around 30mbps/10mbps up/down traffic, but as the evening approached things got worse and worse :( Around 22:00 when the peak traffic came (about 50mbps) the router stopped to forward packets but i was still about to SSH it. When i tried to reboot it it died. As i said in the beginning i didn’t expect a miracle but a total death was not expected, i think i will do some other probes and try to ask the guys at the dd-wrt forums what could have caused the sudden death ?
Jun/080
Spread Firefox – Download Day
Help Firefox to set a new world record – pledge to download it on the download day !!
May/080
Angry Bosses :P
Yesterday we had a very strange incident in our network which has happened not for the fist time and this time i was blamed for everything :/ The fiber optics that we rented to airbites suddenly died. And i was pulling my hair for two hours but couldn’t find any sense in that situation. Last time when things went wrong there it was not my fault! One guy (a tehnician) decided to show them how to arrange the equipment on their racks, and he accidentaly (or maybe not?) switched patch cords. Before i was informed about the whole thing – Boby the guy at airbites tried everything including re doing the switches configurations. Finally at 2 at night i decided to go to their NOC and do it by my self – it turned out that the port at his switch miraculously changed its state from trunk to access, we changed it and everything worked. But this time this was not the case :/ In the end it turned out that the main cause was faulty media converter that they installed in out server room. So after two ours of no internet i got a phone call from their managers from Romania screaming that we never had such problems bla bla bla… only with your company we have such difficulties! Well you probably have never used such cheap media converters like here !!! ASHOLES !
Apr/080
New Switch
Finally and at last they arrived :) After one long month of waiting two pieces of DELL PowerConnect 5424 are here. The First one is already carring an insignificant amount (for that device) of traffic at refresh-lan, and i am working on the second one currently to become a part of the medicom core network. That device has a super low price compared to other gigabit-only devices and the capabilities are enormous !