Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov … mammoth cave …

I have been experiencing some problems with my home PC. It was showing me problems with hard drives. First I though that my hard drives are quite old and need replacement. I got myself new SATA drives since my motherboard supports both PATA and SATA, but then the problem continued and what I have found out is that my power supply was dieing. New SATA drives are faster and probably consume some more power :(. Anyway, I got myself a new 400W power supply and now everything works just perfect.

I also thought to get myself a new PC, but then I remembered that a Quad Core is coming very soon and decided to wait for it :)

For the past few months I have been using FreeNX a lot for remote support of all kinds of server. I got so used to this tool and now I have a problem with it. After I have installed Fedora Core 6 on my laptop, the NXclient does not show any fonts/text in the remote window during the RDP sessions :(

I have checked everything I could, but still can not fix the problem, so if you have the same problem and you get a fix, please let me know, since my life is getting harder with no FreeNX :(

I have a server with does a lot of different stuff like central syslog, proxy and web and which generates a lot of huge logs. For the past few weeks I have been fighting with the free space issue and I had to delete some old logs in order to free up some space. Finally I have found out a way out to help me a bit – I start using compress command in logrotate config files for some of the biggest logs I have (like messages, secure, etc).

I didn\’t actually thought of posting this, but I have found that Neo has similar problem (as described here), so I thought that this can do some use for people :)

In order to make logrotate to compress the old logs, just add a compress clause in the logrotate config for a particular log and it will make the job. If you dig into logrotate manual page, you will see that the customization is also possible through passing additional commands like compresscmd and other.

Here they are – I have receive an originals (hard-copy) of 9 (out of 10) Brainbench certificates I have. I have scanned them all and uploaded to my flickr account. Unfortunately, the certificates were not packed very good and they got into rain, so some of the have very minor damages, but that actually doesn\’t matter at all for me – I still have them :)

It seems that there is another ISP – OTEnet, which is starting providing ADSL at their own DSL platform in Cyprus. From what I know now is that they do have their own platform (so they do not use I-Choice), that they have competitive prices, that they have options for more than 1.5MBits and that they have quite good channels for going out of Cyprus.

I am working with OTEnet for while already, since I use their service in Greece and they seem to be quite good. I have also heard nice feedback from people who use them in Cyprus, but I never had chance to check them here. What I can tell for sure, is that I had very nice support from them when I was getting a line in Greece.