There is at least one "russian" programming language. 1C Enterprise is common accounting software across Russia and its neighbors (incl. Latvia). Our company provides 1C localization in Latvia.
So-called "built-in language" of 1C Enterprise in fact is based on Russian. There is also "english" form but seems nobody uses it. Unfortunately, slashdot doesn't use unicode. I'll post some links to code examples:
In Russia, there are _many_ companies that sell special equipment protecting your computers from being "listened" to. Look:
http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%EF%FD%EC%E 8% ED
Almost all links are related to this subject. Sometimes they sell bizarre hardware which is required by secret services, major businesses and militaries.
One of my servers at very remote location is connected to ADSL with dynamic IP address. Simple cronjob reports its IP-address every ten minutes. It is wget requesting special CGI-script which writes remote IP-address to text file.
This scheme should work fine for stolen computer unless they disable this cronjob (or whatever in other OSes) or reinstall software completely.
95% of Windows installations here in Latvia are from pirated CD. WindowsUpdate works fine for them. Installing and updating of pirated software is eevryday duty of 95% of IT-people in eastern europe.
Google and friends show my address in many maillist and FIDO archives for last four or five years. There's 200+ mail users in our domain. I receive more spam and viruses than anyone else.
There's no reason to hide my email anymore. I receive lots of spam anyway. Simple procmail rules stop 90% of it:
:0 * ^Received: from (solutions.lv|194.8.5.86) Shit/
:0 * ^Content-Type:.*text/html Shit/
:0 * with E?SMTP * ^Message-ID:.*mailserver.solutions.lv Shit/
:0 * ^Content-Type:.*multipart { :0 B *! ^Content-Type:.*text/plain Shit/ }
Ten years ago USA were symbol of freedom for us. Five years ago I wanted to get US visa and job.
Now I see that your country becomes a police state at dangerous speed. My life began in Soviet Union (not in Soviet Russia, I was born in Soviet Latvia). We couldn't even imagine anything like KGB raiding our schools!
Chances are that your phone will be sold here in Latvia soon. Maybe even in my store. At least 50% of "new" mobile phones sold here were stoled in Europe. If I'll notice that I'll let you know.
If you wish to secure Windows box, never connect it to Internet at all. Connect it to trusted Linux networked computer instead. Do not use NAT in this case! Use samba etc. for data exchange between Windows and Linux. Download all you need manually with linux then copy to windows.
IMHO, they are better than Asus and _much_ better than HP. They come without OS preinstalled and run Linux perfectly. With Knoppix I was able to listen shoutcast in three minutes after boot:) glxgears show result similar to my Radeon 7500.
After all, they are cheaper than well-known brands. 1 USD ~ 0.6 LVL.
Next book to buy
on
Postfix
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· Score: 2, Interesting
This is next book to buy. I like postfix. Five years (or so) ago it was unknown rpm that came with fetchmail in Mandrake. Now I use it on all of my mail servers. And I use it for free.
oops... There were two links: "Performance test. Please ignore this link. Thank you!" and "Performance test. Please follow this link. Thank you" AFAIR.
There was interesting book -- Grey Eagles. German pilots assembled ten WWII aircrafts in USA and destroyed American Air Force base in 1970's. Now I cannot find any traces of this book with google...
I wonder whether they'll finally be able to (dis)prove the hypothesis that everybody knows everybody else within six (or however many) degrees of separation.
I have heard about it too. In fact, there are two persons between me and Vladimir Putin or Bill Clinton, and only three persons between me and Monica Levinsky...
I have an idea. Phone books of mobile phones form another kind of network. Imagine, A has number of B in his/her phone book. B has number of C. E knows both A and B. Chances are, most of GSM users in Latvia are nodes of this network. But this network can be fragmented as well. I think we could study interesting things about society this way.
We have 7-digit phone numbers and two mobile networks here in Latvia. Data can be stored this way:
6787026 -> 9131415 9131415 -> 5956564 etc...
All we need is one hashtable (or MySQL table) and data collection interface:)
I personally would love to have a Soviet clone of a western computer as a novelty "thing to have".
Really? I think it is still possible. Some of "PDPs" still run their RSX, RT11 or Unix v7. Some of "360/370" in Russia are still in use (they run VM, MVS or clones). Most of them were replaced with IBM or even Hercules emulators.
My father was one of developers of top secret soviet chips in 1970's. Many of them were clones of western devices. We had lots of chips, transistors, Fortran listings and special books at home. Most of them were lost because we moved four times in last 24 years.
As far as we (me and my dad) know no chips or computers were purchased from "the West" before 1980's. We developed and manufactured clones of 360, PDP, VAX and others instead. They were software-compatible with Western ones but contained only Soviet (and other Eastern Europe) components.
Later we got VAXen (I remember two of them), Macs (no personal experience) and IBM PC.
Two years ago I had no Internet connection at home. All my email was transferred on floppies between home and office. I wrote four scripts for this purpose -- two for tar/split/tar of messages and another two for mount/cp/umount. Floppies are extremely unreliable these days, I've used two disks for redundancy.
All of my neighbours had no Internet too, I planned to "connect" them too. And then things changed. We got broadband connections.
Long time ago I heard rumors that some organizations transferred their email this way for security reasons.
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There is at least one "russian" programming language. 1C Enterprise is common accounting software across Russia and its neighbors (incl. Latvia). Our company provides 1C localization in Latvia.
So-called "built-in language" of 1C Enterprise in fact is based on Russian. There is also "english" form but seems nobody uses it. Unfortunately, slashdot doesn't use unicode. I'll post some links to code examples:
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...because SP2 would be cracked anyway.
In Russia, there are _many_ companies that sell special equipment protecting your computers from being "listened" to. Look:
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http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%EF%FD%EC%
Almost all links are related to this subject. Sometimes they sell bizarre hardware which is required by secret services, major businesses and militaries.
What? They will listen to mp3s? Will RIAA raid ISS for pirated music?
One of my servers at very remote location is connected to ADSL with dynamic IP address. Simple cronjob reports its IP-address every ten minutes. It is wget requesting special CGI-script which writes remote IP-address to text file.
This scheme should work fine for stolen computer unless they disable this cronjob (or whatever in other OSes) or reinstall software completely.
We have our local BSA for years. But nobody cares. Many people even don't know that they have to pay for common software more than 10 EUR :)
Most of piracy-related sites were shut down in last two years. Including my fovourite forum -- sound.lv
95% of Windows installations here in Latvia are from pirated CD. WindowsUpdate works fine for them. Installing and updating of pirated software is eevryday duty of 95% of IT-people in eastern europe.
Google and friends show my address in many maillist and FIDO archives for last four or five years. There's 200+ mail users in our domain. I receive more spam and viruses than anyone else.
There's no reason to hide my email anymore. I receive lots of spam anyway. Simple procmail rules stop 90% of it:
Ten years ago USA were symbol of freedom for us. Five years ago I wanted to get US visa and job.
Now I see that your country becomes a police state at dangerous speed. My life began in Soviet Union (not in Soviet Russia, I was born in Soviet Latvia). We couldn't even imagine anything like KGB raiding our schools!
What revision control system does MS use?
Chances are that your phone will be sold here in Latvia soon. Maybe even in my store. At least 50% of "new" mobile phones sold here were stoled in Europe. If I'll notice that I'll let you know.
Both Winamp and XMMS can play files via HTTP. The only thing you need is HTTP Server, e.g. Apache. This worked fine for me.
/home/user/music/song.ogg -> http://server:8080/song.ogg
Additionally you can write simple playlist converter to convert you local playlist like this:
or
c:\music\song.mp3 -> http://server:8080/song.mp3
I did it last year and it worked fine.
If you wish to secure Windows box, never connect it to Internet at all. Connect it to trusted Linux networked computer instead. Do not use NAT in this case! Use samba etc. for data exchange between Windows and Linux. Download all you need manually with linux then copy to windows.
There are nice notebooks assembled in Latvia.
IMHO, they are better than Asus and _much_ better than HP. They come without OS preinstalled and run Linux perfectly. With Knoppix I was able to listen shoutcast in three minutes after boot :) glxgears show result similar to my Radeon 7500.
After all, they are cheaper than well-known brands. 1 USD ~ 0.6 LVL.
This is next book to buy. I like postfix. Five years (or so) ago it was unknown rpm that came with fetchmail in Mandrake. Now I use it on all of my mail servers. And I use it for free.
oops... There were two links: "Performance test. Please ignore this link. Thank you!" and "Performance test. Please follow this link. Thank you" AFAIR.
Try to search for word 'test'. Note links on the right side of the page :)
Does it mean that I have to shred my gtk-gnutella and dcgui before my country becomes part of EU? Now I don't see any positive sides of EU.
There was interesting book -- Grey Eagles. German pilots assembled ten WWII aircrafts in USA and destroyed American Air Force base in 1970's. Now I cannot find any traces of this book with google...
I have heard about it too. In fact, there are two persons between me and Vladimir Putin or Bill Clinton, and only three persons between me and Monica Levinsky...
I have an idea. Phone books of mobile phones form another kind of network. Imagine, A has number of B in his/her phone book. B has number of C. E knows both A and B. Chances are, most of GSM users in Latvia are nodes of this network. But this network can be fragmented as well. I think we could study interesting things about society this way.
:)
We have 7-digit phone numbers and two mobile networks here in Latvia. Data can be stored this way:
6787026 -> 9131415
9131415 -> 5956564
etc...
All we need is one hashtable (or MySQL table) and data collection interface
Really? I think it is still possible. Some of "PDPs" still run their RSX, RT11 or Unix v7. Some of "360/370" in Russia are still in use (they run VM, MVS or clones). Most of them were replaced with IBM or even Hercules emulators.
See Links for details:
Virtually all Soviet computers"360/370" (lots of pictures)
"PDP" / "VAX" / "IBM PC"
Nice article on clones
386 was copied too c. 1990 :) Although none has seen this copy...
My father was one of developers of top secret soviet chips in 1970's. Many of them were clones of western devices. We had lots of chips, transistors, Fortran listings and special books at home. Most of them were lost because we moved four times in last 24 years.
As far as we (me and my dad) know no chips or computers were purchased from "the West" before 1980's. We developed and manufactured clones of 360, PDP, VAX and others instead. They were software-compatible with Western ones but contained only Soviet (and other Eastern Europe) components.
Later we got VAXen (I remember two of them), Macs (no personal experience) and IBM PC.
Two years ago I had no Internet connection at home. All my email was transferred on floppies between home and office. I wrote four scripts for this purpose -- two for tar/split/tar of messages and another two for mount/cp/umount. Floppies are extremely unreliable these days, I've used two disks for redundancy.
All of my neighbours had no Internet too, I planned to "connect" them too. And then things changed. We got broadband connections.
Long time ago I heard rumors that some organizations transferred their email this way for security reasons.