Digital Life

I had serious problems with performance of my SQL query last week (I’m not familiar with SQL as I’d like to be). I needed to develop statatistic report and one part of its was very slow. I didn’t understand why. I spent one day to find cause of delay. Well, I’ve found the bottleneck! Problem was in data type cast.

Fedora Core 3 has been released. It’s available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites. Let’s download, install or upgrade and enjoy! With this release, the Fedora Project has also dropped support for Fedora Core 1. Those still running FC1 will have to look to the Fedora Legacy Project for updates.

Linux presses Windows more and more. Now the ascendant tactical scheme for Linux is a release of desktop which can be right for unsophisticated users (I mean, no familiar with system administration). MEPIS is one of fair treat desktops based on Debian (Debian is a free Linux distribution that focuses more on stability than being “state-of-the-art”). MIPOS has following advantages: it is distributed as a […]

I’ve found quite interesting article on ONLamp.com – Simplify Business Logic with PHP DataObjects. "You can implement data access layers in more than one way, but here, we’re interested in DataObjects. The concept of DataObjects comes from some very well-documented design patterns, namely the Data Access Object and Transfer Object patterns. These patterns can be quite complex, but with a little imagination, we can use […]

Today is Public holiday in Russia. It’s day of October Revolution 1917 when Soviet epoch began. Russian People have diametrically opposed opinions about that time. I think that we shouldn’t to reject and forget 80 years of history of our country. But I’m sure that civil war and others negative things of Soviet epoch are not a good cause to celebrate.

I’ve found interesting resource – Unix History Site. There are many links on home pages of UNIX people, useful UNIX sites. Also, I was impressed by Unix Timeline.

Thunderbird is my favourite mail client with GUI (sure, mutt is the best :)). So, a new version of Thunderbird has been released. There are some new features: Saved Search Folders allow to display messages based on previously set search criteria. Group messages in a folder supports groupping by attributes such as date, sender, priority or a custom label Global Inbox support for POP3 users […]

“Zenit” from St Petersburg will play with French football team “Lille” today evening in France. This is second tour of group lap of UEFA Cup. “Zenit” gained the upper hand over “AEK” from Greece with score 5:1 last month! I’d like to wish good luck the football team from St Petersburg and I hope “Zenit” will be winner!