Archive for the 'Computers' Category

When it rains…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

… life gets wonderful! :)
It’s unbelievable how can an email starting with:
Dear Applicant,
Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your
application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code.
make a rainy day one of the nicest days of the year! :)
Yes, my application for creating a “Full history for Django” backend […]

New MacBooks are out!

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

And I want one! Black! :)
This time Apple really redesigned the whole computer. The keyboard is different, the screen is widescreen, harddrive and RAM are easier to get to (remember this), the latch for the screen is not mechanical any more, etc.
Again, some people think that price is too high but hey, it’s Apple! You […]

Strace?

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

I’ve heard about this tool before but never got to really try it.
But today, thanks to this blog post by Ravi at All About Linux blog and a little wierd programming languages experimenting I’ve been doing past few days, I finally got to try it and get some useful results. I’ve actually managed to get […]

Summer Of Code 2006

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Yes! The applications for student proposals for SoC 2006 opened on Monday.
I’ve added my proposals but I have some more ideas so I’ll probably write one or two more. Well, if all goes well one of my current ones has quite a chance to get accepted, so keep your fingers crossed. ;)
Google really made an […]

And we reboot

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

It doesn’t matter how hard we try to maintain high uptime for Zabica because there’s always a variable we can’t control. Today it was electricity.
A two hour downtime doesn’t mean much but it’s not nice either. And as a system administrator I think that downtime is just a sign of weakness and not enough planning. […]

World looks nice again

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

After a few screw-ups and quite a few night hours spent online I’ve finally managed to get a Xen installation working again! :)
It was a road full of “rm -rf *”s in /root directory and “make uninstall”s that uninstall every version of Xen on the system (not only the last one) but in the end […]