Zone file for domain1
* IN A 111.111.111.111

Zone file for domain2:
host1 IN CNAME host1.domain1.

Then any query for host1.domain1 will resolve with no problems, but when you will try to resolve the host1.domain2 – it will fail. For this case you need to explicitly specify the host1.domain1. as follows:

Zone file for domain1
host1 IN A 111.111.111.111
* IN A 111.111.111.111

Interesting case, just to remember for the next time…

If you use Nautilus a lot and would like to get normal (old-style) behaviour, check out these post: http://www.khattam.info/howto-enable-delete-key-in-nautilus-3-fedora-15-2011-06-01.html

Basically you need to enable accels key editing in Gnome with gsettings (or gconf-editor), then reassign a button you wish and then disable change of accels key back (unless you want to have it permanently on, which I don’t advice, otherwise you might mess a bit by accident),

15/09/2011:

• Trip to Agia Napa to see Olga and Anatoly who came to visit us from Finland. Saw Cape Greko and sea caves (photos here)
• Short stop at MacKenzie Beach in Larnaca to see landing airplanes (photos)
• Some nice food at Lesheotiki Kebab place in Limassol. Guys offer buffet for EURO 7.90 only with unlimited food. Nice…
• Trip to Germasogia Dam. Apparently it is almost empty (photos)
• Wine festival. Promised to show it to the guys
• Home. Wine. Guitar. Some nice mint liquor

16/09/2011:

• Car broke in the morning. Took it to garage
• Bus trip to Park Beach
• Few beers to recover after hangover at a beach cafe (photos)
• Borrowed Toyota IQ from a friend of mine to continue with nice vacations
• Trip to Aphrodite Hills via old Paphos road and short stop at the top of the Kurium beach (photos)
• Kebabs at my favorite place next to pentadromos.
• Few beers and nice sea at the Kurium beach in the evening

17/09/2011:

• Kurium archaeological stuff for the guys under hot Sun (photos)
• Trip to mountains passing Platres, trout farm, Troodos, Olympus and way back (photos)
• Short stop at the top of Monte Caputo parking for a nice view of Limassol at night

18/09/2011:

• Trip to Agia Napa to bring guys back to their hotel and let them enjoy some more Sun and sea during their last day in Cyprus, while we were having some beers and kupa in the beach cafe (photos)

19/09/2011 – 20/09/2011:

• Took car back from the garage, successfully fixed
• Recovering and relaxing at home after that many events and trips with guys. Uploading photos, watching movies, sleeping…

21/09/2011:

• Trip to Omodos village in the mountains (photos)
• Trip to Foini village. Wanted to enjoy some nice stake but Augustos (owner of the tavern) was not there, so we just spent some time there taking pictures and left back to Limassol (photos)
• Pork chops and Guiness in Moly Malones
• Few billiard games with Sergey at Century Billiard Club
• Few pitchers of Krombaher at Ship Inn

22/09/2011:

• Relaxing at home with movies
• Shopping
• Few beers and guitar with Den at home

23/09/2011:

• Trip to Kakopetria. Very nice village with tons of view for our camera (photos)
• Short stop uphill from Limassol to enjoy nice view on a city (photos)

24/09/2011:

• Trip to Akamas ending at the nice tavern in Latsi. Promised this trip to Yana for ages and finally did it. Like it a lot myself (photos)

25/09/2011:

• Morning trip to Agia Napa with mam to let her enjoy the sea and the Sun. Ended with t-storm.
• Nice food and movies on a sofa at home to finalize the vacations

There are also few random pics while Olga and Anatoly were in Limassol which I didn’t manage to put in different sets, so I created a separate one for them here.

I might miss some events in the above just because there were too many and I might forget something.

Finally, just wanted to mention that one week prior to vacations I had another guests coming to Agia Napa whom I managed to visit: Alexandra Negina and her sister. By some strange chance I had two of my classmates (Olga and Alexandra) visited me in one month, though I haven’t seen any of my classmates for years.

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Originally took it from here: http://maxz-vegas.livejournal.com/310842.html

It is a very nicely described Akrotiri RAF. Almost every small building in a guarded area is pretty well described and labeled. That’s kinda cool.

my $module_name = "Blah";
eval("require $module_name;");

if ($@) {
  die "Failed to load module: $@\n";
} else {
  my $func_name = $module_name . "::do_something";
  &$func_name("some args");
}

But got a warning that I am not allowed to do this while in strict refs. To fix this, had to change the last block to

  my $func_name = $module_name . "::do_something";
  my $func_ref = \&$func_name;
  &$func_ref("some args");

And all went fine. One other alternative was to use the next setup:

  my $func_name = $module_name . "::do_something";
  { no strict refs; &$func_name("some args"); }

Which would cancel strict refs in a short scope. But I didn’t like it :)

Another weird thing was the fact of people coming with POP corn. That’s kinda funny.

After the concert, it took us more than one hour to exit the parking, since the traffic was not organized by any means, and at the end, I found that half of the exit gate from parking was closed, which caused huge traffic jam.

At least Vanessa was very good, energetic and active! Pictures here.

PS: I am not good at photography, so photos are not of the best quality, but whatever I could manage, seating on the other side of in darkness :)

Android 2.2… As I have purchased Samsung Galaxy 3 (i5800 or Apollo), I was checking around and found out that I can upgrade to newer version of android, which was supposed to be faster, better and so on. Fighting for a day or so I did managed to upgrade the phone. One thing that I got weird – I had to use Windows PC with Odin tool to do the upgrade of a Linux based phone. I am not sure if there is a way to do it somehow simplier and from Linux PC, but that was the only proper way I found out. On the other hard – it really was a nice thing. My phone became much faster (can see that with no bench-marking) as well as some apps got much better (especially contacts. No I can use native contact application and like it more that GO Contacts, that I used while running Android 2.1).

Google+, oh that’s a nice thingy… I like pretty much. Being a big fan of Google products at one hard and a user of all those social network sites, I find Google+ to be very fast, clear and handy. One thing that I regret yet is a limited amount of people there and invite-based friendships that have some limits, but I bet this is a matter of time and I do believe that Google+ will find it’s way out there.

There are few other changes here and there, but I won’t mention them due to many reasons for each of them. Generally I like what’s going on and while I believe things will shape around, I am really glad to see all those changes.

It doesn’t need much, just water from time to time, and possibly a bit of sun. Any other kind of neighbor will not survive in my apartment due to lack of attention…

Initial Startup

First of all I was pretty surprised not to find something like “you need to charge your phone for 8 hours before using it” in the documentation which comes with the phone. Instead it was stating “you need to charge your phone before use” or something like that. Charging the phone took about 2 hours (until it notified me that a battery is fully charged).

When first booting the phone, all UI was in Greek (probably because I bought in a local shop of Greek-speaking country), but what pissed me off a quite a bit is that it didn’t give me any option to select language and I had to find the path through to settings using Greek, which I am not that good at :)

Problems

Since the phone and Android platform is pretty find, this section will be short and might have some solutions which I didn’t find yet, or is a limitation of my choice.

First of I really like sync with Google services, but somehow contacts (and especially groups) are not synced correctly in all cases. I don’t have all groups that I have on Google as well some userpics are missing and so on, but I am checking this out. Currently using GO Contacts to manage people in my phone :)

Second is a hardware QWERTY keyboard that I used to have on my Sony Ericsson P1i. I really miss it. I do have QWERTY onscreen keyboard here, but I just cant physically feel the buttons which is a bit not handy, since I m missing the keys by accident and it is very hard to type SMS while on the go/in the car. But this has more to do with a choice of the phone. I could go with one that have hardware keyboard. Currently using GO Keyboard by the way, looks much better than default one. Swype didn’t do a job for me. Completely different approach that I didn’t like.

Internet connectivity is another issue, since I am using pre-paid SIM card and connectivity is very expensive. Good thing is that there is a lot of places with free WiFi around, but proper internet on the go would be much better. Will think on changing the connection package for a phone.

Software

Here comes a whole list of software that I am currently using on the phone and which I like. Some items will have descriptions and comments, while some are too obvious to explain:

• Android Assistant – like a task manager and optimizer for performance. Nothing much to say, just wanted to see what’s going on with my device
• Angry Birds, Bubble Break, Jewels, Ace Solitaire - games
• ClockQ – a nice clock widget for home view
• JuiceDefender – a kind of a magic software, which optimizes battery performance. Advised by my brother and installed yesterday. Can’t judge it yet, but it claims to already improve battery performance by 1.15 times
• Compass, Google Sky Map, Speed Test (speedtest.net client) – nice gadgets :)
• ConnectBot – an SSH client with support for key auth. Very handy for sysadmin.
• Contact Photo Finder – can’t say much about it. Name is self explaining, use is unknown yet.
• Dropbox – amazing thing for dropbox users! Just love it!
• Everdroid – a client to everdroid (former mobical) for contact sync. Needed to check old contacts, will uninstall it later on
• Facebook, Foursquare (someone explain me why I need this),  Twitter, Vkontakte (russian facebook), LinkedIn
• Fancy Widgets – weather forecast widgets
• FBReader – ebook reader for .fb2 format. Amazing to use along with dropbox and FBReader for my laptop
• GO Contacts, GO Keyboard, GO Launcher GO <all other products> – a very nice line of products to replace default components. Happy so far.
• Google Reader
• IM+, Skype – For all my IM needs
• KeePassDroid – an android client of KeePassX software I use on my laptop as a password manager. Nice thing along with dropbox again
• All default applications like Gmail, Gmaps and so on.

Pretty much that’s it. Don’t know if I will need anything else, but will be checking around for more. I also heard a lot about evernote, delicious and google docs clients, but I am not using these services even from my PC, since I stopped bookmarking things for few years now and either subscribe with RSS to what I need to read constantly or use Google or post here what is very important and can be lost. Meanwhile I don’t like notes and don’t use much documents. For those of you who does – checkout for the apps.

I have also checked Opera as a browser, but removed it. It is a nice app, but lacks a bit of integration with other apps and tasks. Builtin browser is ok, missing tabs, but supports multiple windows :)

Conclusion

Overall I am pretty happy with a new phone. First of all it changes a way of thinking about phone. It is not a phone, not a smartphone – it is a communication platform in the pocket. Still thinking over about what my Samsung Galaxy 3 is to me :)

The hardware is not the high end one, but it very nice for it’s price. Sometimes the phone lugs, especially while changing screen orientation or in games with lots of effects, but it is more than ok for normal use, not playing :)

Will be checking for more apps and way around to make my life even better, but compared to previous experience (talking P1i), it is a major step forward.