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Two days of outage

Recently I had an unpleasant experience when I found my small blog unavailable whilst a day before it was up and running at full speed. Thankfully, the support team that stands behind my VPS box recovered the system from their backup quite rapidly putting it back on stage. The data were intact so there was […]

Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:12 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Khor Virap – Noravank – Tatev

That was one on those rare days filled to the brims both with the breathtaking views and the spectacular historical places. We covered 500 km. and it took us a whole day to get to Tatev from Yerevan. Here are just a few photos I’d like to share. Now I’ve got a clear understanding of […]

Posted on December 18, 2010 at 3:40 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Armenia. Garni – Gehdard

Today, as a worm up for tomorrows journey to Tatev, we had a quick trip to Garni. It’s such a beautiful place and I have a few photos to give you a taste of what it’s like:

Posted on December 11, 2010 at 10:27 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Yerevan. Armenia.

Yes, I’m in Yerevan and will spend at last the next two weeks here doing random SA’s stuff from installing HP-UX and HP hardware to migrating Veritas Cluster to a new node and configuring space-ptimized snapshots.

Posted on December 6, 2010 at 9:34 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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iTunes U favorit links

iTunes U is an incredible and highly valuable service provided by Apple. It’s needless to tout it much because anyone who wants to feel [him|her]self in a student’s shoes has already tasted how great this service is and how much it could give. Here is just a list of my favorite iTunes links: MIT. Introduction […]

Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:22 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Apple, Life

American cop

Wish that one day the cops in my country would act similarly to prevent an accident and not bluntly looking for a chance to bribe:

Posted on November 3, 2010 at 12:11 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Questions from Yandex

I have prepared a translation of all questions from the second round of the competition organized by Yandex and would like to invite everyone to test your knowledge. Keep in mind, that those who participated in the game had only four minutes to answer each question. Btw, if you’re looking for a proficient Linux SA, […]

Posted on October 25, 2010 at 9:39 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Linux

Game over

As expected I’ve miserably failed in the second round and had to rush home from disturbing and drizzling railway station’s environment. My only hope is to receive the list of all questions since the ones I’ve seen looked very interesting and I’d love to answer them just for myself.

Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:21 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Linux

Challenge goes on…

Yes! I did it and have made my way into the second round of Linux competition presented and organized by Yandex. Unfortunately, due to an upcoming trip to Nizhniy Novgorod I have serious doubts I would be able to participate since my train will bring me back to Moscow five minutes after of the start […]

Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:23 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Linux

What a day!

Today was one of those strange days when everything is changing so quickly that it’s simply impossible to grasp a single moment of your life. Sometime I wish I had a pause button somewhere to fix that. Oddities. During the day I was using a subway quite extensively and every time I entered a car […]

Posted on September 1, 2010 at 11:45 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life