Dec 8th, 2007 | Networking, Personal, Technology | No Comments
I have noticed a post called “Two internet connections: how is better” I posted two years ago in the “This week last year” box on the right of my blog. That time I did two firewall and so on (as explained in the that post), but now everything has changed and I am glad.
First of all I got a server with 3 ethernet cards and put all the ends into it (two WANs and one LAN). Then I setup load balancer and line failover which works really great. All of the above was done with pfSense firewall (which I really love and have installed at many places, including three places I maintain, plus my computer supplier office as well as two offices of Kean factory). pfSense works just great and has a lot of functionality free of charge :)
Currently I have tested all basic things like DNS forwarder, DHCP, filtering and so on, plus IPSec (static-to-static, static-to-mobile_client), PPTP, Load Balancer, Traffic Shaper, Failover and ntop module.
Dec 8th, 2007 | General, Personal | 4 Comments
Having a lot of trips (around 1000km/week), low budget and nice people around, I got myself a better car :). This time I got Subaru 16GL (1986 year built) in almost perfect condition with low overall trip (~80000km).
Good things about this car:
- Very good condition
- Engine works like new, though I will do full inspection and maybe some renovations just make it completely perfect
- Saloon in perfect condition
- All buttons and whatever is inside works perfectly well
- Paint is like brand new
- Low fuel consumption. It needs less fuel than any of the cars I used before
- Fully equipped with fancy stuff like
- Central door lock
- Electrical windows control
- Electrical mirrors control
- Very comfortable seats (which is very important if you have to drive smthing like 200km/day)
- I got it completely free (thanks to Alexey)
- Quite cheap to fix if any problems (as people tell on the web)
- Very reliable (again as people tell on the web)
So now only few things I wanna do about this car:
- Give it for complete service/inspection in order to find out what needs to be changed (if anything) and make it perfect
- Change audio (I have this, just need to put it in)
Now just some interesting points about this car:
- Spare wheel/tire is under hood in the engine room and don’t ask how they do it :)
- Handbrake blocks front wheels instead of rare ones (important to know before trying to do a police turn involving handbrake)
- It is not a racing car and does not have fast acceleration, though can go pretty fast on highways
- Very nice noise isolation inside, which will dramatically improve the quality of the sound :)
- Engine is 6 cylinders horizontally 3 on each side going outwards. Very balanced one.
I don’t have my own photos of the car yet (coming very soon) , so for the time being here is how it looks like (found on images.google.com), but red color:
that’s it for now
Dec 8th, 2007 | Personal, Web Services | No Comments
Some time ago I used to have LinkedIn account which I have later deleted (don’t ask me why). Yesterday I recreated it and this time it will stay there :), so if you are there as well, feel free to get in touch (http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmamchenkov/).
Nov 13th, 2007 | Education, General, Personal | 18 Comments
Hm, it seems like I totally forgot about this nice blog :( Actually, I didn’t have anything to write, so I skipped it for some time, but now I though would be nice to drop couple of lines, so here is a short update on how it is going at my side:
1. Still attending college. This establishment consumes a lot of my resources like money, health, time, without giving me much back. Hopefully this will finish one day.
2. Playing Quake 3 Arena again. It’s been few years since I played Q3A, but now I am back. I’ve also brought some more people with me.
3. Trying CPMA mod for Q3A (instead of normal OSP I used to play). Looks cool, fast, tricky. The only thing is that it is too sharp (meaning the movements) and I don’t like that much :( We’ll see.
4. Waiting for Christmas. Wanna some rest
Oct 3rd, 2007 | Education, Personal | 1 Comment
I am back to the college university for my studies. This time I was very surprised with the bloody prices - they grow too fast. I took 4 subjects (13 credits/hours per week) and my bill came up to CYP 2200+ which is way too much. They also increased the initial deposits from CYP 400 to CYP 500 and so on and so forth. Hopefully I will finish my studies kinda soon and manage to get rid of this expenses (plus CYP 200 per months for petrol which I spend going to Nicosia and back 4 times a week).
Good point is that I managed to take evening (or at least after lunch) courses, so I don’t have to wake up at 5 AM each morning. I prefer to come home a bit later (10 PM or so) instead of morning trips.
Now I am waiting for Christmas :)
