alp's notes

I spent weekend updating my desktop system. I've built 8.2, updated Xorg, KDE and different trifles. Finally I reinstalled autoconf,auto...

Finally one irritating wine bug was fixed. Now I've just updated my wine to 1.3.3 (I had this in my port tree) with applied suggested ...

I hate Russian state establishments: they want you to fill a pill of papers to work for them and don't want to pay a penny for your job.

We all agree that 2-clause BSD-license is a suitable license for your software. But I have found two more interesting permissive licenses: ...

I have two troubles with OpenVZ: 1) udevd works strange, in particular, /dev/ptmx gets incorrect permissions and so xterm, gnome-terminal, e...

I prepare for new Oracle course now. I'd like to provide every student a OpenVZ container running developer desktop and Oracle XE. Just ...

After reading Stonebraker articles, like this one . I can't decide if knobs are so bad. I tend to agree with this post ... A system must...