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Русский ... that drives you where it’s told to and is able to repair itself (at least restore itself back to the last known working state). It sounds cool, but it makes you a passenger rather than a driver.
Funny to see how my name is transliterated to :
Persian:
یگر سیمونوو
Greek:
Ηγορ Συμονοβ
Hebrew:
יגור סימונוב
Russian:
Игорь Симонов
Hm, looks familiar :)
(If you see some weird squares instead of good-looking symbols, try to set UTF-8 encoding manually. If doesn’t help, you don’t have proper fonts)
Waiting for Japanese. I want to see my name in hieroglyphs :)
Several days ago I read an article on cyberpsychology. It’s a research of Facebook users social relationships, quite interesting despite scientific language. You know, all those “uncertainty reduction theory” or “hyperpersonal relationships”.
I remembered this article (well, except that I wanted to boast that I read scientific articles :) ) because of the South Park episode You Have 0 Friends aired two days ago. It’s ingenious. It not only describes the same as that article and even much more, but does it funny, emotional and even philosophical way.
There’s been much buzz lately about cloud computing. As happened with many other good technological things, it is turning now from something that only geeks were playing with to something where corporations see their future revenue.
Probably the best illustration of this: Steve Ballmer said that by next year, 90% of Microsoft employees will be working on cloud matters.
Ballmer also said that eventually all software will be in the cloud.
Do you remember the Windows 95 startup image with Microsoft logo in the clouds? Back in 90s, they knew!
I like HD, it makes possible to see more details.
In Die Hard 4, in the scene where Matthew is chatting with Warlock right before McClain visit, Matthew’s desktop is visible on his Apple monitor. First interesting thing, there is Windows. Not looking like default Windows theme of course, but some icons on the desktop make it apparent (e.g. Cain and Abel – Windows password recovery tool).
Another funny thing is some kind of console there that is running.. what do you think? – of course nmap! Since The Matrix nmap is a must have utility for any serious movie about hackers (product placement, huh?). But what Matthew is running it against? Some Government or Pentagon servers? Not at all, the exact command is:
nmap -v -T4 -A insecure.org scanme.nmap.org
So he is doing his hard everyday hackers work scanning the nmap utility developers’ website and the host specially created for everybody could test nmap against it :)
I am not blaming anybody, this movie is much better in this regard than most of others. After all, what else would they scan?
I have just found where that Rackspace decision to add VAT to the price resulted from. First I wanted to edit the previous article, but then decided to leave it as is. It’s still correct except a couple of details.
These details are as follows.
Yesterday I received an email message from Rackspace:
“Dear Igor Simonov,
The Rackspace Cloud would like to inform you of an important change to our billing system that will enable us to correctly handle VAT invoicing for our European customers.
As an existing Rackspace Cloud customer, you will need to enter your VAT registration number in your control panel prior to January 1, 2010 to avoid being charged the 17.5% tax for VAT. If you do not have a VAT ID number, or choose not to supply one, The Rackspace Cloud will begin charging you the 17.5% VAT tax on all invoices after January 1, 2010.”
