Author Archives: T1

Mobile phone design

There are people who follows mainstream and like it. There are ones, who follows mainstream and dislikes it. There is somebody trying to change mainstream. That guy came up with a brilliant idea. I was really impressed by simplicity of the idea. Really, why nobody developed mobile with design like that? Author, source.

Ноша поглощающая.

Ахиллес не может ехать на красивой машине. Потому что когда он на ней едет, он ее не видит. Ее видят прохожие – вот это они на ней и едут. А Ахиллес просто воображает, что на ней едет, а на самом деле она едет на нем.Пелевин Брать с собой бОльшее количество вещей, чем может уместиться в […]

Standard font sizes progression

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72 Useful to remember

Over the phone spelling for IT people.

I’ve created my own over the phone letter to word substitution list. It’s simple, non-ambiguous, easy to spell. I was achieving following design goals: – no acronyms – short words – common computing-related words – no similar sounding in words – less brand names is better – less syllables is better – fist letter of […]

Linux Terminal (BASH) Keyboard shortcuts. Readable presentation.

Linux terminal shortcuts are extremely handy. They can speed-up your everyday tasks significantly. Additionally, most commends are applicable to Cisco telnet/SSH sessions and any other terminals. A very little amount of people aware that your terminal can cut/paste strings and words. It can, all shortcuts are there. There are thousands of pages out there with […]

Search engines

If Google suddenly dies, I won’t be lost in the Internets. There are some good search engines around, some of them are even capable to find stuff I’m looking for. (Not Bing). There is always Russian Yandex around, who can find Windows 2003 server product key and print show it to you without even forcing […]

Fedora 13. Is. Out.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Two coolest features I’ve noticed hacking around the beta are easy LVM voluming, out-of-box partitions encryption and… Minimal installation mode! Nothing extra, just kernel, shell and drivers. No overload, no dependency added shit. No words can describe best Linux in the world. Download it!

Ode to my beloved hosting provider

Complaint about any kind of service providers is a very popular topic indeed. I was resistant enough to it unless I experienced it. I used to work with several Russian hosting providers in the past and they all were crap. They had only two disadvantages: their panels lacked usability and downtime was visible by unarmed […]

Beautiful data center

Recently I’ve seen several pictures of a new Microsoft’s data center. I do not know which DC is it, where it’s located, etc. But the DC interior is unusually beautiful. I’m not sure whether it really looks so impressive in real life as it does in the pictures – probably it’s some photographic effect like […]

Essential SNMP, Second Edition

Books covers everything about SNMP, plus something related, plus something unrelated. When I saw the book for a first time, I couldn’t understand how so many pages could be written about such simple thing as SNMP protocol. Reading throughout the book reveled many verbose listings, examples and even chapters which seem redundant. Book covers all […]