Rant Post. IDEA How Long!
Jul 05, 2015 |
How can this be? How long must we suffer? This is about the walking shame and disgrace described here. Look at this wailing of the peoples, whole 220 comments. I even had to unsubscribe from tracking this bug because too many tears were arriving in my email.
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Lions on Red Square
Dec 31, 2014 |
First an anecdote: “On Red Square, a guy of very strange appearance is running in circles and screaming frantically. A policeman approaches him and asks — what are you doing, citizen? He answers — chasing away lions. The policeman looks around in surprise and says he doesn’t see any lions, to which the guy responds — ’that’s why you don’t see them, because I chased them all away.
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Backups for the Concerned
Sep 07, 2014 |
Paraphrasing a famous phrase, I’ll start with a teaching: Computer users are divided into those who don’t do backups yet, and those who already do.
I’ll add on my own that even if it seems to you that all this is unnecessary and there’s nothing so valuable on your computer, on the day (and it will come sooner or later) when you lose all your data your opinion may change dramatically.
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Your Own VPN in 3 Minutes
Aug 12, 2014 |
This is a simple guide for regular people, for those who need a VPN for some good purposes. For example, accessing what they don’t let you access, bypassing various stupid censorship and finally, hiding your tracks on the network a bit.
My mini-guide is designed for a person from the street, without special geek experience, but feeling quite comfortable in the world of computers. If you have clarifications, explanations and other corrections simplifying the understanding process — write in comments and I’ll add to the main text.
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Living with a Hybrid Fusion Drive
May 30, 2014 |
Just realized — I’ve been using a Mac mini (i7, 16GB) with an “SSD–HDD” hybrid as my desktop workstation since October last year. That is, what Apple calls a 1TB Fusion Drive. In reality, it’s 265GB (or 128GB?) SSD and a 1TB laptop (slow, 5400 rpm) HDD.
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Amazon Fire TV - First Impressions
May 02, 2014 |
After my trusty, lovingly hacked ATVv2 (Apple TV version 2) started showing signs of dying and obsolescence (slow, only 720p, and began glitching), the question became urgent — where to turn. Once it became clear there’s no point waiting for a jailbreak for ATVv3, I wanted to find an adequate replacement. Requirements were simple — must work with Netflix and XBMC, must work fast and reliably, play and stream 1080p, and all controlled conveniently with a remote.
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Testing Fast MongoDB – TokuMX in Near-Real Conditions
Apr 05, 2014 |
In the latest Radio-T episode, we mentioned TokuMX - High-Performance MongoDB Distribution. This product sounds interesting — 9x data compression bundled with 20x speed increase and transaction support. At the same time, the transition from mongo to tokumx is quite simple and from an external observer’s point of view — completely transparent.
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About a Podcast Service
Feb 20, 2014 |
Recently I looked at what’s happening in the world of Russian-language podcasts and the picture turned out even more depressing than I expected. Various heirs of rpod only evoke sadness and gloom and look like abandoned cemeteries of audio files against a backdrop of vague attempts to make it all “like the big guys.
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Yet Another Dropbox Killer
Dec 19, 2013 |
Today I received an email from ExpanDrive where they announced a new product, which they described like this:
We’re excited to introduce Strongsync, a Dropbox-like sync app that connects directly to SFTP and Amazon S3. You stay in full control of your data and can easily sync data between all of your machines. Strongsync is currently available for Mac and Windows with Linux support coming early next year.
So we’re talking about a kind-of Dropbox but with your own “base of operations” and full user control over everything. The idea is good, the idea is right. Yes, of course, we all know about btsync which can also be used to set up something like a local cloud, but a centralized storage solution can have its own advantages.
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First Impressions of Parallels Access
Sep 16, 2013 |
In the latest Radio-T we had guests from Parallels who enthusiastically told us about their new remote access program Parallels Access. As usual, they gave us codes for the product, though I haven’t figured out where to enter this code yet, so I tried their official 2-week trial. Already got impressions, good and varied.
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