andre bar'yudin | IT blog

March 22nd, 2007 | andre

From math teaching to property riches

A very interesting article in The Guardian tells the story of a nice elderly couple from Ashford, UK, which has built a property empire worth £280 million. It's simply amazing what you can reach, if you start at the right time and in the right place. more »
March 19th, 2007 | andre

Windows Server 2003 SP2

Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has been released. To be honest, I don't understand why the changes required a whole SP - the list is very short and doesn't look all that important. Maybe the release notes are incomplete? more »
February 11th, 2007 | andre

Electrolux manuals

I tried to find manuals for Electrolux kitchen appliances in my new house. I was pleasantly surprised to find all of them on the manufacturer's web site , with a search interface. more »
February 11th, 2007 | andre

New look!

The web site has new look - share your comments! more »
February 10th, 2007 | andre

Firefox 2 on FC6

The official build of Fedora Core 6 doesn't include Firefox version 2, rather the outdated 1.5. Fortunately, a French RPM repository seems to fill the gap. Apparently, you can also get Firefox 2 from the development branch of Fedora - simply run more »
January 24th, 2007 | andre

Software, that sucks

So, what is the software that I hate the most? The list could be long, but some applications are internal to places where I worked and are unknown to the rest of the world. From the familiar to an average Internet user things I can mention: Picasa - I already wrote about my feelings toward this bastrad child of Google Windows Media Player - I think its interface is not … more »
January 13th, 2007 | andre

Flash player 9 for Linux

At last, there is a downloadable beta of the Macromedia (now Adobe?) flash player 9 for Linux. For quite a long time release of the Linux version was lagging behind the Windows. Many popular web sites utilized features from the newer versions, and such sites were unusable on Linux. Download the new plugin from here . more »
January 8th, 2007 | andre

Is that the beginning of the end?

Property-related indexes are falling on LSE, according to an article in Financial Times. Many analytics mention in their comments, that current property prices in the UK are "unrealistic". Maybe they have been talking about it for long enough to actually cause price drop in the end. more »
November 13th, 2006 | andre

Picasa sucks - AcdSee rules!

I have just installed AcdSee - and I can tell you it is way better than Google's Picasa. Starting with the simple thing - full screen viewing, and down to the proper interface and all the rest. Picasa looks like a quick hack compared to the slick and polished feeling, provided by AcdSee, and the functionality of the later is very good as well. It will take me some time … more »
November 12th, 2006 | andre

Drupal 5 upgrade

I am testing Drupal 5 beta. A lot of useful modules have not been upgraded yet, but using this page I was able to upgrade manually a few of them, including Google Search, Quicktags, Pathfilter and a few others. more »
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