Just two things:

1. Closing the resource is probably the worst idea one might have to express his/her vote for Internet freedom.
2. Just owning a button to on or off the resource created by millions of people does not mean that the owner is granted a moral right to use that to achieve his/her particular goals.

And yes, SOPA/PIPA has to be stopped.

I finally joined the DSLR camp with Canon EOS 600D aka Rebel T3i.

Why Canon?

Well, I’d been a long-time user of PowerShot series and never had long thoughts about my next compact camera: so was with picking a SLR. I felt like improving my shooting experience but not to change it radically. I expected a comfortable learning curve and that the basic UI things were common among all Canon line-ups that would make my transition smoother.

A dedicated server machine is what I definitely needed for my home IT infrastructure which has grown with years. Two desktops, a laptop and a home theatre system: they all needed to be connected to each other and to Internet. For long, it was my desktop box playing a role of the server in the home LAN, and it caused a lot of annoyances, of course.

The last year, an opportunity to bring myself to do it right is appeared, thanks to two things: First, I got new Core-i7 box as my  developer workstation, so my old good Pentium-4 came out of work. Second, a large roll door closet has been built in the hallway where I reserved a room for the server stuff.

A day in the blog’s life.

It’s not a 04-01-joke, it’s like the Slashdot effect looks. Someone mentioned my old article (“Anicent tags museum“) in a comment to the Slashdot post and it resulted in a traffic that Chronicles usually have during a whole month.

http://shipit.kubuntu.org

Thanks, Ubuntu!

Thanks to new WordPress feature, sourcecode quotes in the blog posts now looks awesome:

[sourcecode language='java']
/**
* HelloWorld
*/
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Hello world!”);
}
}
[/sourcecode]

SourceKibitzer portal, a benchmarking service for Open Source Java software projects, opened the large part of its source code and claimed to be “the first-ever User-Programmed Service”.

This morning I’ve got a package:

http://shipit.ubuntu.com/

Thanks, Ubuntu!

… is really a snap. Indeed, Feisty Fawn was my easiest Linux installation – about half an hour from disk partitioning to getting into a working system. All my hardware have been recognized and installed correctly – even such exotic pieces like DVB-card. This device is a key part of my networking subsystem and a source of headache with building and configuring custom kernel. It was a good surprise to see it working out of the box.

Contents of the Desktop CD is not too rich but enough as a basic kit for the most of home/office tasks. Now I am in the process of installing all extra stuff I need and moving all my environment from old (Fedora) installation. So, my system is dual-booted until this process is done.

I’ve downloaded Kubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” released yesterday (Apr, 19).Desktop CD Image. This night.

Unfortunately, I have a business trip next week so I will not be able to get into its installation quickly. The problem is to backup everything and invent optimal partitions scheme, ‘coz I don’t want to loose my working Fedora installation until new system is ready. Maybe, I even have to get a new harddrive.

So far, trying it from the CD. Looks good.