2004-05-02 21:07
by Vasil KolevThe blogging community has probably blacklisted me because of sporadic posting, so I’ll try to correct myself…
Dirty hack idea of the day – if you have a machine, that can’t boot without a keyboard, to use it as server, get an old broken keyboard, rip its board, which is small, wrap it up in duct tape, and connect it to the port. It won’t take a lot of room :)
Yesterday I was at a party (looks like I’m not THAT antisocial), and it was fun. We gave the guy whose birthday it was a greeting card, on which we had a funny version of “Go on, reborn people” (I suck at translating such things), which first line was “protrude old people”. A couple there was so funny, that if they have kids, they’ll probably be hearing from them “Mom, dad, Enough!”, or will just use them as an example (that will be something to see). I met a lot of nice people, too :). I went home at 3-4 in the morning, walked from Lozenec.
When I got home, I found out that the roommates have eaten the last package of macaroni, and the only thing left is a dish of chicken soup (a half-fabricate), and slice of bread. I ate them, calmed the beast in me (who was awaken by the walk home), and went to bed. Next time I’ll wake up someone and will send him to the shop, this way they’ll probably stop keeping me hungry :). I fell asleep when it was starting to dawn….
After waking up, I ate a paunch soup (yeah!) for breakfast, slept a bit more, and finished my lecture for the seminar in Stara Zagora. I’m thinking about sending it to some people for a final review, and to put it in the archive until the seminar comes, to have enough time for other stuff.
Some good news – Lirex are offering IPv6 connectivity (not really official, and their routing is still a bit missing), so there is a chance that we’ll see IPv6 applied in Bulgaria this year – in the moment, they’re the second place that has requested IPv6 addresses, and looking at RIPE’s stats, the third place is Mtel.NET ( the first one is chervarium, but his are through 6bone, he should request a prefix from RIPE). I loaded the module for IPv6 on marla, the thing left is to negotiate the exact addresses, and to write a v6 firewall, I don’t want to leave a huge security hole :)
I’ll talk to Zhoro if the cable modems and the CMTSes support v6, it will be an interesting project for him, too :)
While shopping for a gift before the party, I found some really important things – if I had gone alone in the Bonjour that’s on Slaveykov, I’m not sure if would be able to come out… Most of the levels in DooM were clearer than that… The other thing is that I’ll be moneyless in Tuesday, because the book publishers will take care of me, and will release a lot of books (one of which is the next from “Wheel of Time” by R.Jordan, that I pribably won’t buy, it the living example of a soap opera book. In the last volume for 900 pages NOTHING HAPPENED.)
And finally – at the party I met one person, that made me stop being annoyed by the spring and its effect on me :)