Нет, ну не чудесно ли.

Взято с www.etrade.com и rus.tvnet.lv.

Самый лучший вид творчества — воровство у других авторов. Особенно мне нравится страница об авторских правах.

Today, a horror story — what started as an incredible deal, later turned into an utter disappointment. Two days ago I came across this deal of getting a factory refurbished Logitech MX5000 Laser for as low as $60 CAD (the MSRP is $200 CAD) — needless to say this sounded like an awesome opportunity to upgrade. For more than a year I am a happy owner of Logitech MX3100 Keyboard + MX1000 Laser Mouse. I had never experienced any problems with Logitech products, in fact, I really enjoyed their approach to the interface design and the functionality they deliver. Well, at least till today. Nevertheless, I decided to upgrade to what looked like the next generation of my current setup. Bad move! And I will tell you why.

All of a sudden Flickr has all of my thumbnail images messed up. Some of the pictures in the photostream are replaced with random images. However, the original picture is still there when you click on the thumbnail. Few moments later I get this:

[Update] Aha, Flickr has posted the explanation.

Is Rogers Inc. blocking YouTube or is it me glitching? I am trying to open YouTube website from my home workstation which is hooked up to the internet via Rogers Canada ISP. The browser waits indefinitely to open the web page. However, accessing the website directly by IP address opens it instantly. Rogers is known for past attempts of blocking and shaping traffic to various popular resources (BitTorrent, podcasts). The current situation is also very suspicious.

Yet another example of how important a single comma can become. Not suprising that a mind-twisting language of lawyers would play an evil joke on themselves. Rogers Communications Inc. now faces to pay an extra $2.13-million all due to a punctuation problem in the contract. “The Globe and Mail” has the story.

One thing I wonder, whether the other party, Alliant, would win in the long term. It wouldn’t be suprising that other companies avoid making deals with them from now on.

Очень печальная история…

Давеча пытался поставить DVD в компьютер под управлением славной системы Windows 2003 Server. После загрузки, система решила, что новое IDE устройство как-то странно повлияло на диски сидящие в software RAID1 (mirror) конфигурации. Дабы не смущать систему, решил поставить DVD заместь имеющегося CD привода. Не тут-то было! После перезагрузки система наотрез отказалась стартовать… точнее в safe режиме загрузка доходит до acpitabl.dat, после чего уходит на автоматическую перезагрузку. При выключении автоматической перезагрузки наблюдаем любимую картину — “синий экран смерти”, ошибка 0x0000007B без дополнительной информации. Google сразу нашел собратьев по несчастью. Из обсуждения понял, что речь идет о каких-то недружественных отношениях между Prescott-ами (скоты, одним словом) и последним Service Pack-ом. Мысль обновить BIOS показалась не очень глупой, что в результате чуть не окончилось полным фиаско.

Sometime ago I have discovered a huge collection of the topographic maps hiding in the shadows of my harddrive. I always wonder where did I in fact acquire these. Even though I still can’t recollect the origin of the files, I now know what is this all about.