• Posts Tagged ‘geek’

    IPv6 since

    by  • 31st May 2011 • post

    Since I blogged about test IPv6 website I’ve actually subscribed to the RSS feed of validated sites. It does couple of things …

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    Test your site for IPv6

    by  • 28th May 2011 • post

    I’ve found a nice website  to use for testing IPv6 from where you are, as well as verifying IPv6 for your servers. Very useful to double check if your server firewall rules don’t cut if off. It’s http://ipv6-test.com/ , however I can’t see anywhere who is running that page.

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    Flying and Mobile Apps

    by  • 4th September 2010 • post

    It is a while since I came up with an idea that I should invest some of my time to develop apps for pilots. Naturally, started developing some with me as primary consumer. That’s how very crude version of flightime appeared. It was KISS design, 2 buttons and it was logging my take off...

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    What is going on

    by  • 19th July 2010 • post

    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...

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    Seagate HD is not good

    by  • 21st March 2010 • post

    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...

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    Battle of RHEL5.0 with HP G6

    by  • 3rd March 2010 • post

    So, we got a new hardware for testing our product. Great, finally. To make sure that we test as close to what we consider Live, we have produced a system image with all required software pre-installed. It worked perfectly when we provisioned it on our new dev environment. However this time, we couldn’t get...

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    new QT and Flying with Maemo N900

    by  • 21st January 2010 • post

    It’s amazing. My love for flying and computers is starting to have it’s children. I’m kinda inventive and lazy guy. When I can automate something, I don’t bother to do it. This is very annoying when I’m flying. Especially annoying when I have to recall some details. Some of these details are … Takeoff...

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    Up in the Air movie

    by  • 19th January 2010 • post

    I have been to the cinema yesterday to see Up In The Air movie. I have just this to say : It’s brilliant and I will encourage all my peers to see it. Sooo good and real!

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    New Hosting

    by  • 5th January 2010 • post

    A bit of an update on my systems : somewhere in late November 2009 I’ve decided to rent a server with www.serverloft.com … I’m still setting things up there, I’m using VirtualBox to host certain functionalities on separate VMs. So far there are : mta1 for incoming mail, running ESVA , love it! (had...

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    Leaving 1 and 1

    by  • 1st August 2009 • post

    Well, the time has come, I will be leaving my current hosting provider www.1and1.com . Why ? I simply see no value in using hosting providers. I am my self working in that industry and that means I know how it works and stuff and because I have my own servers serving my email,...

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