They so damn are! Aftraid to enter their name when registering a domain, but post every single bit of thier personal information into their facebook profile. And even place a marker on their home, their office and the place they usuallys stop by to drink a couple of beers in some google maps app.
Apr. 04, 2008 // 09:50 | Comments (0)
Today, on the 1st of April, I, Aleksei “rusty_angel” Miheev, declare: the spring is finally here. There are lots of signs around. Those are the most notable:
Apr. 02, 2008 // 02:12 | Comments (0)
Well, yes – I'm back. I've always been here, but there really weren't that much time, so I couldn't sit, organize my thoughts in a way suitable for a blog post and write it. Later I got some time, but lost that habbit of blogging in English.
However, recently this blog was approved to TLA, and now I somehow feel obligated to start writing again. Right, I wouldn't mind getting a few extra bucks.
OK, so what's up? I still work in that web hosting company, I've got some of my projects hosted there, they are mostly local audience-oriented, so I won't mention them here now.
And I got back to freelance, too. It's casus inoperabile, I guess. It's my life, really. Freelance is much more challenging and.. just interesting. There's always something I do for the first time.
For example, recently I was optimizing a slow torrent site (yeah, I stuck to torrents), and I did it well, it's running smoothly for a about month already instead of crashing every night, but I didn't change a single line of code anywhere but /etc/my.cnf. Before that I always searched for weaknesses in scripts and queries (and there always were some), but this time I only tuned mysql. It feels just great! The company that hosts Matt's (he's a really great guy) server just doesn't believe that, so Matt had to ask me to describe what exactly did I do for them.
Also, I had first real-life experience with PostgreSQL recently. I used it a little in past and liked it, but GOD, it's custom aggregates are awesome! And tsearch was a big disappointment: it has everything I was trying to implement by myself for some time already. It's great. just great.
There isn't just work here now. I'm finishing my education this summer, so I'm wokring hard on my diploma project. I hate it. Really. I'm not into those things at all, I'm a system programmer, I have nothing to do arc furnaces. Writing a research paper on those things is painful. But I can't stop half-way, and neigher I can stop three months before the end after six years. So I just do it.
That's all for today. Real stuff would be later. See you, guys.
Mar. 30, 2008 // 12:22 | Comments (0)
No matter, how bad restaurant is, Jack Daniels is always Jack Daniels. Thus, friday evening was damn good
Dec. 02, 2007 // 00:32 | Comments (0)
Well, yes, it's Novemeber, time for me to catch some cold. So I stay at home instead of been in office, take pills, drink a lot of hot tea with lemon (I hate tea with anything but water!!!) and... keep working.
I am trying to set up MySQL authorization/authentication with PAM and NSS. There'll definitely be an article on this, as I couldn't find enough information on this. There is a bunch of HowTo's available, and the task doesn't seem to be too hard, but I have problems with it now. Either those howtos aren't enough up-do-date or pill made me dumb.
I didn't tell you the best part yet. I didn't tell you anything good at all, actually. This site is one year old now! I ordered hosting from BlueHost.com on Nov, 20 last year. Now I have my VPS and I was busy moving the blog here from BlueHost and transferring the domain to GoDaddy, so it could have been unavailable for some time. Also, I missed November, 19 when I promised you to report about the first month of non-freelancing. This article would follow today later.
Right now I am accepting congrats. :)
This year shown me that I can be interesting, that I have things to write about (hope, next year will give more such things), that I can get a PR4 for a new domain, and hit the Reddit's top. There are things to remember, definitely.
Thank you for been with me all this time.
Nov. 22, 2007 // 11:24 | Comments (0)
I am a huge fan of that “how many somebodys does it take to change a light bulb” stuff. I'm sure, everyone knows this one already, but still it's one of the my favoutive:
Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but it takes a long time, and the light bulb has to really want to change.
I am planning to launch a website with lots of such stuff both in Russian and English. Someday. I've even registered a domain name for that. Unfortunatelly, I rarely have enought free time.
What I want to do now is a little contest.
You may have noticed already that there are now Links section in my sidebar. This should be soon changed. And one of those links could be yours forever absoulutely for free.
Just win my little contest.
See the title of this post? Sure, you do. I still do not have any answer to this question in my collection. That's awful, isn't it?
So, the person, who would propose the answer I'd love most, will get a link to his site in my sidebar. Forever and ever and ever.
Sep. 26, 2007 // 23:00 | No Comments
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