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adventure with green drives

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wd [and other vendors] sell green drives; they are reasonably cheap but have annoying tendency to spin down very very quickly. i bought recently 2x WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0 with intention of using them [in very unprofessional fashion] in PERC6 RAID1 array.

the putin system

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu_h1w_vWI – cbc’s “the putin system”
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The Smell of Paradise

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqF_STyHXc / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYP7D3p44Ak – another documentary by Mariusz Pilis about Jihad

updating bios / firmware with help of linux, without cds and usb pendrives

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from time to time i have to upgrade different types of firmwares in PCs – sometimes it’s bioses, sometimes raid/network/ssd firmware. until now i was either burning cd-rw with iso provided by the vendor or making some bootable usb pen-drive with free-dos or sth similar. but i stumbled on this one and it worked surprisingly ... Read More

Attack of the Drones – USA

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHJLwYWX30 – Attack of the Drones: Is war becoming a video game Obama’s Rules For Assassinating American Citizens number of killed by dronesa in Pakistan [hm… arent Pakis ‘the good guys’?]

vpro – the food speculator

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBM4WngZT4 – commodities / futures markets; seen from all the three ends – speculators, produces and consumers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU – vpro – Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box

hk/mc/sg/vn

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i got another chance to visit Asia. instead of suffering cold, dark and cold January in Sweden i’ve spent 3 weeks in mild Hong Kong & Macau, tropically hot Singapore and pleasantly warm Vietnam.

29c3

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talks that were most interesting for me: political: not my department russia’s surveillance state enemies of the state technical hacking cisco phones milking the digital cash cow – [in]security of the contact-less cards Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation – you know all those cool kids going out going to clubs, ... Read More

raspberry pi

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few days ago, after 19 weeks of waiting, i have finally received my raspberry pi.

3+ weeks in Portugal

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i’ve been thinking about working remotely for a few weeks from some warm[er] country for quite some time. finally i’ve tried – i’ve spent 3+weeks in Portugal while taking just 2 days of holidays. all went surprisingly well.
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surge 2012

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talks that were interesting to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QBJOc1RSw – Mike Nolet ~ From Zero to 500k QPS in Three Years: Scaling AppNexus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHN_rDj6z-M – Andrew Miklas ~ Ensuring the Call Goes Out – Everytime – ha/failover headaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCfuKZUyTko – Tom Daly ~ The Architecture Behind Super Fast DNS – Routing, Redundancy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym96Z-sThZU – Surge 2012 ~ ... Read More
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