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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Quoted

A person that I deeply respect and who is very know in Latvian IT society recently said that he often uses a quote of mine in his presentations. I completely forgot that I ever said that, but it sounds very much like what I would say, so I wanted to write it down so that [...]

Slow starting USB storage in Linux

I have this USB hard drive enclosure that can also share the files on the local network (LAN DRIVE HD9-U2LA, vendor id – 05e3:0702). Due to that it has an operating system and some other software inside. Unfortunately this software is rather slow to start and that cause the following kernel error when trying to [...]

Terrorist Airlines

I can’t believe I have not bogged about this before. With all that terrorism threat bullshit, wouldn’t it be nice if there was an airline that would declare itself to be ‘terrorist friendly’ – i.e. all passangers are welcome to come on board with just a simple identity check, no security check, no baggage security [...]

In a quest for perfect sweet buns

Recipe in the image description. Got up at 7 and made a surprise batch of sweet buns for breakfast at 9. Girlfriend was very impressed.

AJ, if some blogs would support comments, I would leave my opinion there and not add noise to the planet. 1) Censorship does not stop being censorship just because the people doing the censoring don’t have the absolute power to censor the information everywhere and only block the information or opinion from the channels they [...]

Freedom of information production and distribution

Bernhard It is possible that you are not alone but nether are defenders of freedom if information production and distribution and in particular of freedom of speech. Trying to restrict what words people can or can not use (by labeling them sexist, racist or obscene) is the bread and butter of modern day media censorship. [...]

Having a (pyro)blast with your new Ice Block

Here is something I wrote some while ago, hope this will be useful for some World of Warcraft p(l)ayers. Has no other relation to Linux or Debian, except it works on it flawlessly. Also note that 2.3.2 patch went live last week. It is not a secret anymore that mages of all talent specs will [...]