Artwork is a matter of taste, style and consistency. Design by committee does not work. If we really want to get a consistent, stylish and professional Debian style trough the whole Debian (and I think we should), we need to have an appointed Debian artwork czar – a professional designer or graphic artist, who would [...]
Here is the first screenshot of a new tab in the SBackup configuration that allows you to automatically erase old backups. There are two options: plain and simple “keep backups for X days and then erase them” or the smart (and default) progressive trimming option in which you have more backups of recent times and [...]
Saturday, August 12, 2006
A small idea for increasing the performance of peer-to-peer communications for highly popular files. Imagine a BitTorrent file that becomes popular overnight. There are thousands of clients trying to download it, so for each client there are thousands of possible source to get the file from. However, one client can only connect to a small [...]
Saturday, August 12, 2006
I spent the whole day today investigating and fixing SBackup bugs and adding new features. The 0.10 release will be da bomb! My current plan is to spend 10 more hours on this tomorrow and after that I will declare a feature and string freeze for 0.10 and will give the translators a day or [...]
Apparently the government agencies in UK that are managing the current security craze have little to no idea how much their super-paranoid security policies acctualy cost. It appears that direct losses from one day of air traffic chaos costs airlines 175 million pounds. Everyone who has their flight delayed for more then an hour for [...]
The Dell saga goes into second stage. Despite me having a priority XPS next day on-site warranty it took three days, one click-trough of on-line wizard, two emails and three phone calls to get the collection of my broken laptop going. And now it will only be collected on Monday. Doh! I wonder how much [...]
I am writing a collective article about all thing I hate (and a few I like) in UK, but this is too important to let it slide until then – I hate British public transport. Background information: I live in Cranfield village (ZIP code MK43 0JN, look it up) right in the middle between Milton [...]
Thursday, August 10, 2006
A half an hour ago my brand new Dell XPS M1710 laptop stopped working. It just turned off and would not turn on again. I got my old HP lappie out and went to Dell site for debugging. After several quite nice debugging steps the fault fell into a generic “no idea what it is, [...]
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The development of SBackup was very stale for most of this year, mostly because many of the bug/feature that user were requesting required a significant rewrite of the codebase and at the same time I saw how messy the code has become over time. A few people came up and offered some help, but out [...]
I was just told that Steven Colbert is going to feature Latvia in it’s new sketch “Meet an ally”. On his show, he often does thematic multi-part sketches where he meets with all participants of some kind of group. The best example is his ongoing ’434-part series’ “Better know a district” that even earned a [...]
