Older blog entries for nyo (starting at number 11)

Well, I decided to stay with Epiphany. It's better for me and looks nicer in GNOME desktop. Though I'll recommend Firefox to Windows and non-GNOME users, I'm going to write some "Epiphany vs. Firefox for GNOME" article in near future, he he :)

Well, it's finally broken. It won't boot at all anymore. Looks like condencers on motherboard are dead, I hope to buy and replace them soon. I plugged my HDD into Pentium 200MMX machine with 128MB of RAM and using GNOME on it. Look ma, it works pretty fast! The sad thing that's no soundcard here. :(

Err... I lost my 128MB USB flash drive. Very sad about that, 'cause I used it much as it was very handy. I also have a 256MB flash-based MP3 player here, but it needs battery and cord and it's rather slow in UMS mode.

Played Half-Life 2 using Cedega 4.2 today. Well, i'm somewhat annoyed with its puzzles, so I'm going to sleep now. 04:36 AM here.

I used Epiphany for a long time, but today I decided to give a chance to Mozilla Firefox as 1.0 looks nice, uses GTK theme well (even greater with GNOME-Fx icon theme) and integrates with GNOME (not as good as it integrates in Windows, i.e. it can't import bookmarks from Epiphany or use GNOME proxy settings, but I guess it's planned for future). I'll "test-drive" it for few days and either will stay with good old Epiphany, or finally fall in love with Firefox. :) Also it's because I used Firefox on Windows today and liked it much better than standard Windows browser (Internet Explorer) and other, ad-ware browsers (like Opera and other shit), so even if I'll stay with Epiphany, I'll recommend Firefox for all non-GNOME or non-GNU/Linux people.

Installed the last version of Screem from Debian unstable and I'm really impressed. What a great piece of software! Beautiful and super-usable HTML/XML editor for GNOME. Thanks to its authors!

Went to St.Petersburg State Polytechinal University today. Looks like a little nice students' village, liked it. I'm hoping to enter there next year to continue my programmer's study. Signed for preparative courses to renew my math and physics knowledge.

Stupid computer. It looks broken. It won't boot sometimes, it like to reboot suddenly and it emits weird high-freq sound. Just drives me crazy.

I suddenly decided to start posting some entries in this blog. :)

Well, I'm a college student from Russia. I learn programming there, so I'm interested in creating and modifying software. That's why I like free (as in freedom) software. I use Debian as my operating system and GNOME as my desktop. I'm even contributing a little to those projects. I sent some patches to GNOME PPP and reported bugs to Debian packages. I'm already a maintainer of gnome-ppp, rhythmbox-applet and goobox packages for Debian. I upload it through sponsors. (Thanks, goedson, seb128, sjoerd!). Today I got my GPG key signed by a Debian developer here in St.Petersburg and I'm going through NM queue. Sjoerd Simmons agreed to be my advocate for that and is now writing some words about me. :) So I hope to become a real DD soon and upload packages myself! Also, this blog may be added to Planet Debian :)

Will post any noteworthy events here.