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[pl/en] Czeczenia / Chechnya

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Czeczenia – Cena prawdy / Chechnya – the price of truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKh9ls5YI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VTTwVJojxQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIICOHGz94Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZKSJLZeso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCkbzoomnM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkeUeLj1t_0 Chechnya The Dirty War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2medFkNhI another movie by the same director [ Mariusz Pilis ] Exit afghanistan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-R_Yp2py0

switching reverse proxy from apache2 to nginx

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i’ve been planning for a while to move away from apache2 as a reverse proxy in front of java appservs and start using nginx. i had two reasons: nginx can handle much better large number of concurrent connections [something we can make use of if we start using long-poll/comet], nginx gives more control over buffering ... Read More

Justice with Michael Sandel

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pop-philosophy [aka the light version] with a political edge: http://www.justiceharvard.org/. playlist on yt. i’ve converted all of the lectures to mp3 [using this] so now i have something to listen to during the evening walks. as a counterbalance to the ‘soft’ stuff – 28c3 recordings: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Documentation, and a list of talks; most interesting [for me] ... Read More

new sphinx, new connector/j headaches

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sphinx 2.0.3 is out; and as new drama of getting mysql’s connector/j begins. i did not figure out [yet] any way of making both work using the latest 5.1.18 connector, but at least i’ve managed to convince one that i use now [ 5.1.15 ] to work with sphinx. what works: mysql-connector-java-5.1.13-bin.jar but.. only if ... Read More

excluding some mysql queries from the slow query log

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i keep close eye on the mysql-slow.log log of queries that take more than 1s to execute. but at the same time i know about few house-keeping queries that are executed few times per day that by design take longer to execute [eg table checksums]. i don’t want those queries to ‘pollute’ the slow query ... Read More

java7, XMLEncoder problems

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for the last few days i’ve been looking into java7… it surely seems faster. but also some of my old code broke when run under it.

[pl] Historia III RP

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cz. I – lata 80 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elq5igrZFZM cz. II – okragly stol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxqjIJB1LU cz. III – wybory czerwcowe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eees8BExTy4

ghettovcb hangs while removing the snapshot

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i’ve upgraded few vmware esxi 4.1 servers with the latest patches and… obviously something got broken. i use ghettoVCB script to take weekly snapshots of the vms. scripts hanged last night on all servers.

istanbul

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i was in istanbul / turkey for 9 days… longest ‘stationary’ holidays in the last couple of years.

The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse

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article from 2006 but might be quite up-to-date taking into consideration recent news about the region. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/12125 related wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse
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journalist on the frontier

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robert fisk – journalist on the frontier ; semantic chaos in the way situation in the middle east is described. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1klyYcNe8#t=04m30s other lectures by him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBZ_dpiFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-py0hlRY7k

ilo

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i take care of one HP server with ILO remote access card. but recently i started having problems with using web applet to connect to it.

kiev

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i’ve spent 3 days in kiev…

How juries are fooled by statistics

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Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics few statistical paradoxes + their grave implications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmzxmRcUTo as a bonus – birthday paradox – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem