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Unlock For iPhone 3G(s) 3.1.3/3.1.2 Is Available

It has finally happened! My newly granted iPhone 3G is able to make calls now! Long story short, I have iPhone OS 3.1.3 and the modem version 05.12.01 Only few days ago it was not possible to unlock such an iPhone. It was only possible to jailbreak it and use it as an iPod. If [...]

Beautiful And Sensual Ukrainian Pop Song

A beautiful and sensual song from Ukrainian pop group neAngely (notAngels) made its way to the top of music charts. It was a surprise for me as it is very rare that we hear a song of this quality and beauty from a pop group. Watch the clip and enjoy! neAngely – Otpusti (notAngels – [...]

Black Flowers By Matt Darey And Urban Astronauts

Amazing piece of art. For those saying trance is rubbish – you are not right. Hope you enjoy it! Little girls come out to play In a garden full of black flowers today For their hope has run away So they chase it through those black flowers again Little lies we tell ourselves are killing [...]

Ukraine’s Currency (Hryvnia) Rate To U.S. Dollar Is Stable Until August

Analysts of the “Erste Bank” predict that hryvnia rate to U.S. dollar will remain near the current level (7.90) for several months. There can be slight decline in August, which is associated with the plans of the National Bank (NBU) to increase its monetary base, as well as seasonal increases in demand for the currency. [...]

Ukrainian Stock Market Shows The Fastest Growth In The World

The Ukrainian stock index PFTS, has grown nearly fourfold since 9th March last year, showing the best growth among the 93 stock indexes in the world, Bloomberg reports. According to the agency, the PFTS index rose by 293% last year. Ukraine’s cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the allocation of credit to support the Ukrainian [...]

Economic Situation In Ukraine: Update

It seems the economic situation in Ukraine is not as bad as I described in my earlier post. The country’s debt level remains manageable. Ukraine’s pre-crisis gross external debt-to-GDP stood at a healthy 57%. After the crisis erupted, debt remained stable at around $100 billion but the contraction of GDP pushed the ratio to an [...]

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Economic Situation In Ukraine Is Worsening

As of January 31, 2010 public and publicly guaranteed debt of Ukraine amounted to 301 billion 538 million 747.28 thousand UAH, or 37 billion 686 million 690.45 thousand dollars. At the same time, reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) amounted to 25 billion 285 million 920 thousand dollars on January 31, 2010. Economic [...]

Daydreamers

Would you like to spend a day by the sea doing nothing but walking around and dreaming? Watch this video, listen to the amazing tunes and get that atmosphere!

Backup Your CVS/SVN Repository to Amazon S3

Recently I decided to implement one additional layer of protection for our CVS repository. It was only backed up to another folder on the same server, the same virtual disk (RAID 0). “Why not use Amazon S3 storage for additional protection?”,- I thought. Step 1: Compile FUSE support into the kernel and install s3fs Step [...]