Disqus - Friends of omarbhester

Re: Went snowboarding at Northstar 1/6/2007

Artem Russakovskii — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:30:03 -0000

you bastard... [squints eyes]

Re: OMNINOGGIN has migrated to the ever stable FreeBSD 6.2 Platform!

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:21:38 -0000

Well it's about damn time. BSD, I'm impressed with the choice. Tell me how it goes.

BTW, your chCounter links are fucked.

Re: Keeping BSD Ports Up-to-date Effortlessly

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:45:53 -0000

Wow, never heard of shift-zz. Where'd you learn that, you bastard?

Re: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:47:57 -0000

What about the letter case?

Re: Bypass iTunes, Rockbox Rocks!

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:10:40 -0000

Bah, I was so about to jump on this but the 2nd gen nano isn't supported! Ahhh!

Re: MySQL participating in the Google Summer of Code 2008

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:49:22 -0000

I'd like to see the self-healing replication implemented - it looks like a great item, as well as LDAP. Hope you get some bright students this year.

Re: Telecommuting in 2008

Artem Russakovskii — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:59:03 -0000

Great tips here!

I'd like to add to this list a laptop with a modular bay, where you can take out your CD/DVD drive and stick in an extra battery (and carry 2 more in the bag). Along with an extended primary battery, you can last through most plane trips, even 10+ hour ones.

As far as bag recommendations go, I can't say enough good things about http://www.booqbags.com . I have their backpack, and I must say it's the sturdiest and most comfortable/convenient laptop backpack I've ever used.

Concerning security, you should fully encrypt your external drive in case it does get stolen. Since it's used mostly for backups, speed isn't primary concern, and you don't lose that much speed anyway (maybe up to 20-30% max).
I, for one, use BCVE (Bestcrypt Volume Encryption), which encrypts whole partitions, including the boot one (Windows, and yes, :-[ it's not open source).
There's nothing worse than knowing your data is potentially exposed. I should know, I had a laptop stolen from in front of my sleeping face when I was fast asleep in my own room.

For silence, I heard about V-Moda, but I can't rave enough about Ultimate Ears super fi 5 pro. Forget Shure. These babies have sound so good and isolation so perfect that I feel like I'm floating in space. My praising review here: http://beerpla.net/2006/09/...

Cheers!

Re: Developing CiCi’s Cafe Website

Artem Russakovskii — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:16:34 -0000

Looks very nice and clean. I like it :D

Re: AJAX Force Comment Preview WordPress Plugin

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:12:50 -0000

This is actually a good idea. A really great idea, even! I see you also enabled it on your site already. The spam protection is what makes it especially worthwhile to install.

Here are my suggestions:
- after you force the preview, if a user makes more changes, disable the submit button again.
- maybe don't show the submit button at all, or have the same button that changes functionality from preview to submit and the other way around.
- stick this thing into svn and wp-plugins
- ...
- profit?

Re: Developing CiCi’s Cafe Website

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:14:51 -0000

man, those pictures make me hungry. H-U-N-G-R-Y.

Re: AJAX Force Comment Preview WordPress Plugin

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:57:57 -0000

Thanks, Thaya. It seems to work just as expected.

Re: Completed OMNINOGGIN Server Migration

Artem Russakovskii — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:05:22 -0000

You will be able to survive the digg effect.

Your email messages are coming from a different host now, not omninoggin.com.

You wrote "even" instead of "event".

Keep checking your shared server load. The reason I switched away from shared hosting is because it was always over 10, due to other users. It might be better with your current host though, especially if each user gets a CPU cap as well.

I am disappointed that you want to concentrate on FreeBSD less :(

Re: Lower Your Cell Phone Bill by Changing Your Billing Address

Artem Russakovskii — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:22:31 -0000

350 miles per tank is good. I laugh now at all the gas guzzler owners that get 200 or less. Anyway, the tip is good, though I don't feel comfortable to have my personal information potentially go there, in rare events.

Re: Keeping Up With The Commodore [Commercial Break]

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:58:33 -0000

Man, commercials that repeat the same thing over and over need to die (unless they're in Family Guy - wacky waving inflatable arm flaling tube man, wacky waving inflatable arm flaling tube man, wacky waving inflatable arm flaling tube man)

Re: Blogging Insurance & Quoting the Associated Press

Artem Russakovskii — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:03:59 -0000

Thanks for bringing the attention back to these 2 ridiculous cases again. Both are equally disgusting and appalling. eJerks and Disassociated Press vs bloggers - bloggers have to win.

Re: Blogging Insurance & Quoting the Associated Press

Artem Russakovskii — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:03:59 -0000

Thanks for bringing the attention back to these 2 ridiculous cases again. Both are equally disgusting and appalling. eJerks and Disassociated Press vs bloggers - bloggers have to win.

Re: A Robust FFMPEG Install for CentOS 5

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:52:14 -0000

I just experienced the same problem as Maxim and after installing various versions of libx264-devel from official repositories, including 0.60, I still couldn't get ffmpeg to compile.

Here's the solution: ffmpeg is so cutting edge that it needs the very latest x264 sources. You need to get x264 from their git repository or a daily snapshot.

Here's what I did:
yast -i git # or whatever package manager you use
rm -fr x264
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264...
cd x264
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

Then compile ffmpeg and it should be fine. I compiled yesterday with no problem.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:49:40 -0000

Finally! I think this is a great idea for a plugin and is especially awesome because it's compatible with wp-supercache. Javascript-powered plugins are the way to go in a cached environment.

Thanks, man, I'll definitely add this into my blog, together with the Force Preview plugin.

Re: 3 Web Design Mistakes That You May Need to Fix NOW

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:55:24 -0000

Love the new subscribe icons. Also, I think Emily's suggestions are great, but you've overdone it a bit on the titles - I think they're too big now, or maybe too bold. Just my opinion.

Re: Revver’s Downtime Results In User Loss

Artem Russakovskii — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:27:28 -0000

Down for me today, doesn't look good for Revver, you're right.

Re: Referrer Detector 2.1.1 and a little bit more

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:34:09 -0000

It seems that while your project is different from Thaya's, you borrow heavily against it. It's OK to do it from time to time, considering it's open source but such heavy borrowing is frowned upon.

He comes out with a feature, you immediately copy it, he comes out with another - same thing, you even refer to the box as "greet box", a term you hardly came up with. Your plugin is essentially the same as his, with a few extra features tacked on, to be different. Again, I also frown upon this.

Having seen the AJAX-related vulnerability and how long it took you to find it, I am going with GreetBox.

Re: Podcasting Isn’t Exactly Dead

Artem Russakovskii — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:03:12 -0000

Podcasting will be dead soon.

People want to do 2 things on the Internet:
- watch short videos
- read short messages

The common part there is "short". The attention span of a regular person on the Internet is, that's right "short". That's why Twitter and Youtube are getting more and more popular every day while Podcasting popularity is dying down.

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:59:11 -0000

Samsung is also making a phone due in Q2 of 2009. I agree with you on the Android. 2009 will be its year (and even more so afterward).

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Thaya Kareeson

Artem Russakovskii — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:33:33 -0000

hehe, enjoy.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Thaya Kareeson

Artem Russakovskii — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:16:34 -0000

Nice and blurry day.