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A pen

Last weekend, a day after I have moved to a new place. Decided to go shopping for stuff which I was missing at the new quarters. Like light bulbs , baskets and so on. On a way I to a shop I had a thought that maybe a label printer would be a good acquisition [...]

What is going on

Suddenly world around becomes very strange. First Oracle is breaking it’s promise to keep OpenSolaris running. Then BBC Future Media & Technology is announcing more departments relocated from London to North… Now I just received sad news that Wesabe is closing down. So far I see that  IT related stuff is going downhill… However there [...]

Flying Katana in Bautzen

I’m back from Europe where I had a chance to fly Diamond DA20 Katana. Aircraft is LIGHT! comparing to PA28′s it’s crazy. Bubble canopy also works great and you can see plenty. It was my first encounter with complex aircraft. It has Constant Speed Prop  what means, no throttle but manifold pressure and prop control. [...]

The Joy of Weather

My pilot license arrived 2 weeks ago. I was so happy that I will be flying now as a Captain! First weekend, I couldn’t go up in the air, my health was not allowing me ( blocked sinus ). Bugger, that was a blow. So I thought about flying this weekend.

IPv6 Geo Location Database

Would you like to be able to pinpoint where are IPv6 visitors coming from , just like with IPv4 ones ? Well, I wanted and I have created an IPv6 Geolocation database.  It holds Country code for every IPv6 subnet which was available on BGP last weekend. I am going to update it every 2 [...]

PPL Exam Tips

I’ve passed my PPL Exam and now I’m awaiting to receive the license papers from CAA. My journey to actually have it happen was long and I not always made good decisions. Thanks to this I have some tips for future pilots ( this is a reprint of what I’ve sent to one of my [...]

How to reset Juniper Netscreen SSG Firewall

Using reset hole/button, press it for 4-6 seconds, status LED blinks Red, as soon as it starts blinking Green, release it for 2 seconds, now push it again for 4-6 seconds until it resets completely. After that you are back to default settings. (user/pass is netscreen)

Seagate HD is not good

After reading some posts on Server Room I’ve decided to do some scrubbing on my zfs pools … just in case ( done it a few times some long time ago ) The I’ve noticed that one pool takes ages to scrub: state: ONLINE scrub: scrub in progress for 0h59m, 40.72% done, 1h26m to go [...]

atticgroup.net planet

Started doing something with my not so recently acquired domain atticgroup.net installed planet aggregator for all ex attic people who I know. Boring. It’s boring to try to find out RSS feed addresses for all possible web applications and people, so if you are ex attic and not featured on the page yet, please please [...]

Chasing weather and bad luck

I am due PPL skill test for last month… and it’s annoying. If it is not weathers fault, there is no aircraft, if weather and aircraft are nice, examinator decides that he does not want to fly today… So I have it scheduled for next weekend… but already can see problems as there are other [...]