… mammoth cave …
Its been a week since I am playing around pfSense – a firewall solution based on m0n0wall (which, in turn, is based on FreeBSD and lots of open-source tools). For the time being it seems to work fine and handle the small LAN (around 40 users + 7 servers) with no problems.
The cool stuff around it is that it has WebGUI for all its configurations which makes it to be a nice replacement for those 3com ADSL routers people are usually using in such places.
Finally I managed to change my phone. My old Nokia 3310 [kindly presented to me by my brother as a birthday gift a three years ago] served me a lot and finally the battery dead. Due to the reason that I needed more powerful mobile I went and got Sony Ericsson p910 which I found to be a very good phone with everything (and even more) stuff I that were in my requirements list.
in addition I got a USB bluetooth (very small and handy) so I can make file exchange between my phone and all the computers I need.
Hope that the new phone will server me as good as the old one.
P.S.: since I have a digital camera in the phone I hope that some photos might appear in this blog from time to time which will make it more lovely.
Have watched School of Life. Really nice movie.
(hm, I am definitely not a good review writer, so you\’d better check IMDB or watch it yourself and write your own review :))
Yesterday was watching one of the new russian movies \”Слова и Музыка\” [Words and Music] and heard this nice song by Michail Bashakov.
If you remember the original song \”Don\’t Worry, Be Happy\” by Bobby Mc. Ferry, this one uses the same melody, but the text is in russian and it is a very, very nice translation (of the hole idea, but not the text as it is). If you can understand russian, I would suggest you to download this track and take 3 minutes to listen to it. Don\’t know about you, but for me – it raised my mood a lot today morning :)
Just watched the screenshots of M$ Office 12 and was amazed on how great the interface has been changed. I see that M$ is pushing more and more changes in the UI both for Office 12 and Windows Vista. I wonder how much time a usual (not power) user will need to spend to get used to the new UI?
So as I think, when Win Vista and Office 12 will arrive, a user will have a nice choice of either spending lots of money on buying all these new software (+ hardware since Win Vista requires quite a lot of it) and then spend a time on getting used to new things, or just getting on of those nice Linux distros (Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, whatever) for a much less money without any need for very powerful hardware and spend the same time getting used to the IU offered by software from Linux distro.
The first thing I thought looking at Office 12 screenshots was: \”why don\’t one move to openoffice since it I believe it will be much easier to get used to it than to new, fancy UI of Office 12?\”