Fishing pics

Posted on January 13, 2006

Me:

Alex:

First pike:

Second pike:

Innovator? Nah..

Posted on January 13, 2006

Apple is perceived by many as an innovative designer. Yet I think that my old IBM notebook is designed better then their latest one. For example look at the keyboard:

15′ MacBook Pro keyboard:

12′ IBM X21 keyboard:

Apple new notebook is wider, yet for some reason they still can’t get keyboard layout right. Look at at my X21 keyboard, keys are big, logically grouped. UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT buttons separated from the rest of the keyboard. ESC key is were it is supposed to be.

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Anyway, I’m going fishing at 6am so I better to to bed now ;-)

Sutakatushyatama Yoga

Posted on January 7, 2006

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О разнице между религиями: христианство и мусульманство

Posted on January 7, 2006

- Иисус Христос даже распинавших Его на Кресте простил. Своим ученикам Он заповедал: Я говорю вам: любите врагов ваших, благословляйте проклинающих вас, благотворите ненавидящим вас и молитесь за обижающих вас и гонящих вас, да будете сынами Отца вашего Небесного (Мф.5:44-45).
По учению Мухаммеда: «А когда вы встретите тех, которые не уверовали, то – удар мечом по шее; а когда произведете великое избиение их, то укрепляйте узы» (Коран. 47:4).

(с сайта www.pravoslavie.ru)

Let it frag?

Posted on January 3, 2006

I wanted to defrag my hard-drive today. But before I clicked on “Defrag” button I thought:

1 Clearly when file is fragmented, disk head need to travel all over the platter to reconstruct the file.
2 Yet when Windows defragmenter program compacts fragments, usually Windows runs slower.

In theory it should not be the case, but I believe that because it not only compacts the files, but also moves all files so that they are arranged continuously, all benefits from the defragmentation are lost.

You see then the Disk Defragmenter moves most often modified files to the outer side of the platter (for fast RW I/O) all the file fragments that are created after the defragmentation have to be written on the opposite side. Thus data access becomes very slow.
I don’t know how NTFS works, but if NTFS used hash like algorithm and defrager left some free space between (at least for the top 1/3) of the most modified files, that would have made defragmentation as it is more useful.

Newyear with family

Posted on January 1, 2006

NEVER AGAIN!

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