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Aptana Studio Optimization

I’ve been picking up a decent PHP & Python IDE for some period and decided to try Aptana Studio. I had Eclipse with PHPEclipse installed for some time but then dropped it because I thought it was too slow. Aptana Studio isn’t faster than Eclipse + PHPEclipse in any way but I liked it. This [...]

“No” to genkdesvn

As many of you already know the KDE team has released a stable version of KDE 4.2. I’ve been running KDE compiled from trunk (genkdesvn) with the latest features and bugs for a half year but now I feel tired of fighting with the bugs and since I don’t report them to KDE team anyway [...]

Caveats About Restoring Linux Root Partition From TAR Archive

Recently I had to create a new partition on my laptop’s hdd to install OS X (I wanted to have a dual boot of Gentoo and OS X). I had no free space on the disk so the only way to create a new partition was to shrink the existing root partition with Gentoo. Since [...]

Bad Crash Of Daniel Albrecht In Kitzbühel

Yesterday Daniel Albrecht landed badly just a hundred meters away of the finish gates in Kitzbühel, Austria on a downhill training course. A serious mistake and a crash that will likely take months to recover. Most likely he just didn’t expect a jump from such a steep track. I’m a fond of skiing and giant [...]

JFS – My Choice as FS for Gentoo Root Partition

I would like to share my experience with JFS – Journaling File System developer by IBM. While searching for a fast and robust file system for the root partition of my Gentoo installation I noticed that most pick either ext3 or ReiserFS. Both are good FS and I have dealed with both of them. However [...]

Late food? No, thank you

Who doesn’t know how tasty is a piece of cake with an evening tea, or a juicy burger and a  beer with a good movie? As I recently found out it is completely unhealthy! Fascinated by this article I decided to try to not eat after 8 P.M. I usually go to bed around 00 [...]

Late Dinner Is Your Worst Enemy

Late dinner causes serious harm to the body and leads to rapid aging. There are doctors that seriously argue that a good dinner just before going to bed is one of your worst enemies. According to the scientists there is so called “big biological clock” functioning at the level of your body. The essence of [...]

The End of New Year Holiday Season

The 2009 New Year holiday season is on its end now and it seems I’ve got enough rest! The holidays in Bukovel (Carpathian mountains) were perfect and brough many positive emotions. I’ve got some very nice and original presents too! And finally – I’ve managed to write the first real post for my blog. After [...]