Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net ... mammoth cave ... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:54:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en New Car http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/08/11/new-car/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/08/11/new-car/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:54:03 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/?p=279 Was thinking about buying myself a new car for a while and finally decided to, so after some small research of available options I got myself a Suzuki SX4. Took it for ride last weekend to Akamas - great car. Pics available here and here

BTW, this is 4×4 version of the car, what makes it possible for me to go further than just normal roads :)

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/08/11/new-car/feed/ Upgrade went fine http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/upgrade-went-fine/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/upgrade-went-fine/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:06:40 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/?p=277 It seems that the upgrade of WordPress went fine. Now I have the latest version of WP. Also upgrade all plugins and did some minor cleanup (like removing disabled plugins and similar).

If you will notice any problems here, please let me know.

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/upgrade-went-fine/feed/ Going for WP upgrade http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/going-for-wp-upgrade/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/going-for-wp-upgrade/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:17:58 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/going-for-wp-upgrade/ It’s been a while I upgraded my WordPress installation, so I think it’s time now. If you will see any problems on my blog, know - I am upgrading now )))

Hopefully will go ok and in few hours I will have all done.

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/26/going-for-wp-upgrade/feed/ No PrimeTel at my place http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/05/no-primetel-at-my-place/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/05/no-primetel-at-my-place/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:35:26 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/05/no-primetel-at-my-place/ Thought to change my ISP to PrimeTel due to low prices, nice pings to quake server and availability of TV package, but unfortunatelly my area is not covered at the moment :-( So I have to stay with what I have for a time being.

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/04/05/no-primetel-at-my-place/feed/ Invisible Drum Kit http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/27/invisible-drum-kit/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/27/invisible-drum-kit/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:31:43 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/27/invisible-drum-kit/ Amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sf_pogZ8jE

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/27/invisible-drum-kit/feed/ Work Permit http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/15/work-permit/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/15/work-permit/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:15:13 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/15/work-permit/ Finally, after all those attempts and fights and I got my working permit in Cyprus for the next 2 years!!! And I am officially employed by EuroOrient at the IT position.

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/03/15/work-permit/feed/ Ericsson p910, Linux, Mobical http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/07/ericsson-p910-linux-mobical/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/07/ericsson-p910-linux-mobical/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:07:00 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/07/ericsson-p910-linux-mobical/ Finally I got my p910 back from the repairs (had problems with screen). Playing around with it during weekends (oh yes - I was missing it a lot) and I have managed to sync my contacts from p910 via bluetooth and my laptop running fedora 8 to mobical. This was more than critical for me after I didn’t have access to my phone contacts for few months.

The major problem for me was to make p910 utilize internet of my laptop through bluetooth. There are a lot of how-tos, but all of them were missing smthing :(. Here how it worked for me (originally found here):
Put the following into /etc/ppp/peers/dun

460800
debug
ipcp-accept-remote
192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2
MS-DNS <IP of DNS server used by linux box>
lock
crtscts
noauth
defaultroute

Then put this to /etc/sysconfig/iptables:

*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p UDP –dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p UDP -m UDP –dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT
*mangle
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -j MARK –set-mark 0×9
COMMIT
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A POSTROUTING -m mark –mark 0×9 -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT

Then run the next set of commands (as root):

/sbin/service bluetooth start
/sbin/sysctl net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
/sbin/service iptables restart
dund –listen –encrypt call dun

Here we finished with Linux setup. Now get yourself a GnuBox application for p910. Follow the instructions on how to set it up on the GnuBox website. Finally, open gnubox, go to Options -> 2box Bluetooth -> LAN Access server, select your linux box in a list of devises, tell “Yes” when asked about encryption. Done, now you can use internet with “Bt” dialup account from your phone (refer to GnuBox setup instructions) and it will take you the whole path through linux to internet :)

The mobical part is easy - just register there and you will get an auto-configuration SMS for your p910. Now you can sync in any direction :)

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/07/ericsson-p910-linux-mobical/feed/ FreeNX works again http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/02/freenx-works-again/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/02/freenx-works-again/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:00:11 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/02/freenx-works-again/ Quite a while ago I wrote a post mentioning a problem with fonts when using RDP over FreeNX. Now it seems that the problem is fixed and everything works. I have reinstalled the freenx server on my FC5 server (the latest version available for fc5 from yum repos I have is 0.6.0) and also put a latest (3.1.0) nx client on my fedora 8 laptop. Things just work :)  and they are really fast and easy.

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2008/01/02/freenx-works-again/feed/ Jumbo http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/12/jumbo/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/12/jumbo/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:43:17 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/12/jumbo/ Yesterday I have found out that Jumbo shop in Limassol has 2nd floor!!! Not that I am a regular visitor to Jumbo, but was in that shop for many times and I always thought it has only one (big) floor with a bunch of stuff there. Few days ago I was looking for a new bag for CDs to put in my car and one guy told me I can get one in Jumbo. I went through all those rows of stuff and didn’t find one, so I came back to him and told that they probably don’t sell what I need anymore. After 2 minutes of trying to find out where exactly he saw the bag he told like on the 2nd floor and that was the moment I got very surprised since I never saw stairs or lift in Jambo. Few minutes later I was in the shop and saw that the bloody hidden 2nd floor exists indeed. So if you didn’t know about it as well - stairs are on the left if going from cashiers towards the other end of the shop. They are kinda 10-20 meters away from cashiers :)

]]> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/12/jumbo/feed/ Few photos http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/10/few-photos/ http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/10/few-photos/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:19:40 +0000 Alexander Mamchenkov http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2007/12/10/few-photos/ I have uploaded few photos on my flickr. One set is all about my rest in Columbia Beach Resort over this weekends where I was invited for (early) Christmas party and second one is about my short trip to Troodos mountains to see the snow (and test drive my Subaru to the mountains). In the second set you will also find couple of pics of my car (red one) which I have promised before

BTW, have replace car audio with Pioneer CD/MP3 player (which I already had from before) as well as put 4 Kicker speakers - ummmmitssamazzzing :)

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