Cyryl Plotnicki - 9

Configuring Tor non-exit relay

I'm for privacy. I'm for cryptography. I do provide Tor relays for the good of all people. Here's how to configure a classic non-exit Tor relay on your machine. In my case I got it running on the VPS server, with 2 IP addresses and some bandwidth quo ... read more →

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta1

What do I think ? Easy to install, hard to disable Unity, some programs crash sometimes and some things are weird. Despite that I have the faith in the Ubuntu folks that the system would be ready when 11.10 comes. As whining itself never got anybody ... read more →

Speeding up Eclipse/Aptana

As you know Aptana is Eclipse. And Eclipse is a Java-based IDE which means it's not particularly a speedy one. However if you have a decent amount of ram, like 4gb, it's fairly easy to speed the Eclipse up. Find eclipse.ini or aptana.ini or other fil ... read more →

How not to blog

Today's post is definitely not a tech one. Or maybe just a bit. It's about blogging, from the other side of the keyboard. PEBKAC-style. Fun-fact: Did you know that 'kac' in Polish means 'hangover' ? To the point. I realised that I have dozens of post ... read more →

Hello Sharpdevelop

For years I've been involved in the open source community. I encouraged company managers to use open source solutions, I reported bugs, I did tests. Since this Monday I am officially a part of Sharpdevelop team, pursuing the goal of better F# support ... read more →

VPS Adventures part two

Update 2023: the landscape has changed considerably over the last 13 years, a lot of the companies mentioned in this post have died, I've removed dead links After some not so pleasurable experiences with the previous VPS hosting provider I started ... read more →