Author: michael

Last Sunday me and Maria went on Bike Show which took place on Kean area. There were many bikers on luxurious “Harleys” and modern bikes, funs and much noise and smoke :).

biker: 1. One who rides a bicycle or a motorbike.
2. A motorcyclist, especially a member of a motorcycle gang.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Nice girls offered to taste Kean cold coffee. There was a big sceen where translated interesting fragments from bikers life. So, there was funny! Bravo Kean!
Personally, I don’t like motobikes. I like any kinds of cars. That’s why I didn’t take a lot of photos. But here you can see some interesting samples of bike culture.

I upgraded my work computer up to Fedora Core 4 two weeks ago. I resolved some problems with PHP5 and SugarCRM (I installed PHP5 from the source) and GNUArch (I installed the latest version of GNUArch from the source). So, it was not so difficult.
But I couldn’t force to work my sound card. I saw it in the list of all PCI devices (lspci). But it didn’t work at all. I made a search in Google and discovered that Fedora Core 4 came enabled SELINUX and it produced the problem with sound card (I guess). So, I switched off SELINUX added selinux=0 in kernel line in the grub config:

- kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb

+ kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb selinux=0

Another way to add SELINUX=disabled into etc/sysconfig/selinux. But I didn’t find this file on my computer.
After that the sound card started work perfect!
Resume: if you know what is SELINUX you are lucky and you don’t have any problem with that! If you don’t know anything about SELINUX, but you want to know here is a short tutorial about using it. If you don’t know anything about SELINUX, you don’t want to study it and you are user of desktop just switch off it!

Green Space presents R&B Beach Party July, 16 2005 on Governors Beach. The party starts from 16:00 and ends 00:00. There are parking place, bar, lifeguards, security, nice music! A good mood is guaranty!
The ticket is 5CYP including a drink! Be there!

Art. Lebedev Studio is one of the oldest and most famous webdesign studios in Russia. The best example of their work is “Russian Google” Yandex. That portal includes many servises like email, home pages, online dictionary, catalog of products etc.
You can find here very interesting and helpful meditations about website creation, design and others aspects of web deveopment. Artemy Lebedev is creative personality. Hope it’ll be interesing for somebody to read his columns!

Last week I spent two days to find why HTMLDOC doesn’t convert HTML page into PDF (we use HTMLDOC in Perl module to make print view of our HTML pages). It was very difficult to catch the problem because it appeared only in one case – HTMLDOC crashed without any errors or warnings. In others the similar cases HTMLDOC worked correctly.
After many experiments I’ve discovered that the problem is in a big table on HTML page. The previous version of HTMLDOC (1.8.23) just displayed warning about the big tables, truncated them and successful generated PDF file. The latest version (1.8.24) given “Segmentation Fault” which was visible only in command line – Apache log was empty!
So, we downgraded HTMLDOC till 1.8.23 and sent to developers a bug report. Hope they will fix that bug soon!

After coming from Russia I’ve found a good FM radio in Limassol – “Choice FM” (104.3). There were nice, modern and non Greek music (I like Greek music but not all time). But recently, I’ve discovered another radio station “Radio Energy” (107.6) (I made a couple IVR applications for that radio 🙂 ) with very good music (from rock-n-roll to trance and RNB). Another big advantage of “Energy” is an one frequency in the all cities of Cyprus! It’s really cool because we shouldn’t retune our car radio when we go to Nicosia or Larnaka. Also we will able to hear “Energy” between cities.
So, let’s tune “Energy”!