Recruits Sought for Porn Squad

Posted on September 20, 2005

Recruits Sought for Porn Squad: ”

The FBI is joining the Bush administration’s War on Porn. And it’s looking for a few good agents.” (Washington Post)

Bush declared a war on porn? Hahahahahaha! I hope it’s a joke. Really. But I belive he is capable.

Amazon trademark

Posted on September 20, 2005

A trademark is a mark that is used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify the origin or ownership of goods and to distinguish them from others and the use of which is protected by law.

I fail to understand how can REAL NAME^TM can help to identify the origin or ownership and distinguish Amazon from others…

Doh!! I should trademark my name to identify the origin or ownership and distinguish me from others!!! Can I do this? Do I own my name? ;-))

P.S I think my name is spelled in a for or five different ways in my passport: Iouri, Youri, Uri, Uriy, Юрий. And last name Goussev and Gousev, Гусев.

Apocalyptica

Posted on September 17, 2005

By pure chance I went to ticketpro website today and saw that in one hour there will be Apocalyptica concert. So I immediately went to Spectrum to buy tickets (yeah they still had them). What can I say… Best show ever! Spectrum was full and people were absolutely crazy. I bet Apocalyptica enjoyed it too. Even Manowar was not as good!

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P.S I overslept my comp352 class today :-) anyone got notes?

On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Posted on September 14, 2005

Often in your homework you are given a sequence of numbers and asked to find a formula that produces this sequence.
For example determine the final value (an exact value as a function of n) of sum after executing the following code segment:

        int sum = 0;
        n = n - (n % 2);
        for (int k = 1; k < n; k += 2) {
            int j = 0;
            while (j < k) {
                ++sum;
                ++j;
            } // while
        } // for
        return sum;

This code produces sequence of repeated roots 0,0,1,1,4,4,9,9,16,16,25,25,36,36,49,49,64,64,81,81,100,100.
Now if you can’t find a formula, you can go to On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and see that the formula is simply

Iraq.

Posted on September 7, 2005

Liberated people of Iraq salute their champions:

Цирк да и только: “Ходорковский уведомил избирком …

Posted on September 7, 2005

Цирк да и только: “Ходорковский уведомил избирком о своем участии в выборах“. Отсиделся-бы, книжек почитал, с простыми людьми поговорил глядишь и нажилбы политический капитал. А так.. ведь проиграет и кому он потом нужен будет - неудачник хренов.

Linux suck.

Posted on September 5, 2005

Yes Linux suck. Why? I just finished small consulting job were I had to setup a secure tunnel from office network to remote server. I checked Redhat Enterprise!!! Server documentation and it looked like I would spend 5 minutes and bill 200$ dollars. Stupid me ;-)

First their documentation tell me to put TYPE=IPsec to config file. And first kaboom! IPsec must be in upper case and their stupid scripts can’t understand IPSec.
Second the version of ipsec that they shipped with RHE3 is not compatible with version from RHE4. And I had to buy a 50$ subscription to download bugfix.
Next, logging details are a different in RHE3 and RHE4. It make it really difficult to compare (and RHE update applet goes to RedHat site every 30 seconds polluting my tcpdump output). Well ok shit happens, but why ipsec drops first valid pocket? I have to ping remote host two times to establish the connection! And no it is not mentioned in documentation. A lot of thing are not mentioned in documentation. I even found “Secret Racoon error message decoder ring” website…

So instead of spending 5 minutes on a relatively simple task, I spent almost 6 hours.

People if you will have a choice to use Linux or something else, choose something else (hint Solaris).

Do you want more? RPM database locked. up2date stopped downloading updates every now and then. Console tools don’t work (so it’s either GUI or vim). Tools produce config files with undocumented parameters that are never used (and for example no documentation about what parameter I should use to set MTU for network interface, let along mention that I need to change MTU in their so called documentation), broken GUI tools (they never thought that somebody may click back bottom or may need a explanation about what exactly I’m expected to enter in that text field and in what format, oh and no input validation).

Did I mentioned that Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Standard
Edition cost $799 US while Microsoft Windows XP Professional $378 CAN? When did your Windows XP or 2000 crashed last time? RedHat server froze when I opened file in VIM. I could not even ping it and had to reboot it.

Linux must die. Unix rules. Peace.

Gallery

Posted on September 3, 2005

Okok, I promise this will be the last time. I made a gallery and put all my photographs there.. ;-)

Check the great “under the bridge Montreal panarama” with matrix effect photo.

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

Posted on September 1, 2005

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