istanbul
i was in istanbul / turkey for 9 days… longest ‘stationary’ holidays in the last couple of years.
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The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
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
croatia / bosnia & herzegovina / serbia
brain-dump from few days of backpacking around ex-yougoslavia
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
i use rsync to transfer my backups around. to better utilize available bandwidth i run multiple rsyncs in parallel… but from time to time i’ve noticed failures that on the client side.
journalist on the frontier
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
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.
Are we in control of our decisions
paradox of choice; again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI
kiev
i’ve spent 3 days in kiev…
How juries are fooled by statistics
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
The War You Don’t See
how the mainstream media reports recent military conflicts. worth watching. really. the war you dont see
Libya all about oil, or central banking?
Libya all about oil, or central banking? some interesting comments at zerohedge another source: cnbc. grass-root revolution… right.
100+TB in 4U
backblaze – petabytes on a budget v2.0
kindle 3g
few months ago i bought kindle 3g. below what’s good and what’s bad about it.
Canon IR C2550 & Canon IR C4580 – Could not verify the ID and password specified in Job Accounting
maybe it’ll save someone a bit of time. problem: there is group of people running windows xp and using over the network two canon printers IR c2550 and ur c4850. they dont use central windows printer spooler – they send print jobs directly to the printer. suddenly one user reports that she cannot print from ... Read More
“boot failed: not a bootable disk” after migrating kvm image
i’ve migrated some vm from qemu-kvm-0.12.4 to qemu-kvm-0.12.5 and … got unpleasant surprise – unbootable machine.
mysql 5.1 – turning on/off query logging on the fly
i dont run query logging – more to avoid running out of the disk space on /var/log than for the performance reasons. but from time to time it’s good to be able to turn logging on to see what’s going on. in 5.1 and later versions it’s possible without restarting the mysqld.
mysql circular / master-master replication
i’ve been playing for a while with mysql circular replication; here are some notes from setting it up.
Adam Curtis – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
e1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c e2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq0xVuRG4ng e3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXJYkkxh0rk