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Selection of Instant Messenger for Linux

After trying licq, gaim and kopete I decided to use sim – just another IM for KDE. It has pretty good user interface, supports UTF-8, allows to define encoding for each person in the contact list. It’s intergated to KDE (I like it and use only it). So, there is an only one problem. Yahoo! client cannot work via proxy. But this’s because Yahoo! doesn’t […]

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Hundredth subscription on Bloglines!

I made 100th RSS subscriptions on Bloglines today! It was Flickr RSS channel. Have alook my blogroll. Maybe you’ll find something interesting for you 😉

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Perl Oneliners: rename files

Image you have some files in the directory. You heed to rename them added some prefix. This is a simple Perl code can do it: find . | Perl -ne ‘chomp; next unless -e; $oldname = $_; s#\./(.+)#prefix_$1#; next if -e; rename $oldname, $_;’ Let’s see what we do. First of all we get a list of files using command find and pass it to […]

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Yahoo! offers MovableType on its hosting

Yahoo! announces possibility to use MovableType on Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting. I thought about using MovableType as en engine for my blog at the beggining because it’s developed on Perl. I like Perl and my work related with Perl. So, it’d be easy for me to customize my blog, develop new plugins and so on. But there is a problem with MovableType license. It’s […]

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Yandex – найдется все!

Вслед за Google, предоставляющим программу для локального поиска на компьютере, Yandex (русский Google без преувеличения) тоже анонсировал подобное приложение для ПК – Персональный поиск Яндекса. Фирменная фишка Yandex – поиск с учетов морфологии русского языка присутствует и здесь. Так что по крайней мере одно преимущество перед Google Desktop уже налицо! Вообще, на мой взгляд Yandex в рунете просто вне конкуренции. Это и онлайн словари, и […]

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Del.icio.us in down

I heard del.icio.us was sold to Yahoo! So, it’s good news because the people who develop it earned good money (hope). But right after that del.icio.us starts show exceptions time to time and today it’s completely down! There is not way to see bookmars or create a new one. I understand developers work with intergration del.icio.us and its new owner. But that’s no help!

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Happy Birthday PERL!

The first version of Perl was released 18 years ago – 18 December 1987! I work with Perl more than 5 years and I’d like to say it’s the best programming language (IMHO). Thanks a lot to Larry Wall for this perfect thing, thanks a lot the best Perl community Perlmonks for advance of Perl, thanks a lot to all Perl developers!

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King Kong жив!

Ð’ прошедшие выходные ходили с Марьей на “Кинг Конга” Питера Джексона. Скажу сразу – фильм понравился. Очень динамичный, с хорошей графикой. Хотя в начале немного начали скучать, пока герои плыли к острову. Но дальнейшее действо с лихвой это компенсировало! Не хочу пересказывать содержание – занятие это весьма не благодарное. Лучше все увидеть своими глазами и непременно в кинотеатре. Эффекты просто убойные. Битва Конга с тремя […]

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