Today’s story is a photostory ! Here’s how to disassemble Pioneer SE-50 headphones, as I found this task quite difficult, mainly because no info available on the internet on how to open the can from the back. As you can see Pioneer signs on the side of each can are removable. Take them off to uncover the screws. Research made possible by kabanosy - best multitool ever. Some more info on the headphones: scan of the user manual Produced between ‘68 and ‘72. [Read More]

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 quota applied. I wanted the Tor traffic to be easily recognizable from outside as different from the ’normal’ traffic coming from my server. Second requirement was to make Tor not use my whole traffic quota up. [Read More]

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 anywhere, I’ve reported all of these here: #855901 #834425 #855945 #855917 #855919 I’ve even got one OOPS. However, since I’m writing this post under 11. [Read More]

Today’s post is not a recipe at all. Here’s what I think the tech recruitment should look like. It won’t be cheap. Start by describing the position. Who are you looking for, what would they do for you, how would they bring money to your company. Use words, not techie talk. I found most of the job descriptions online do not match the real expectations of the employer. You just want a good programmer, a person who thinks about what they does. [Read More]

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 file which contents look similar. These settings are from my Linux box - I know that MacOS can get scared by higher values there; if you encounter any problems - try lowering the Xmx and/or others. [Read More]

Updated 2023: sadly nawcom is no more, I’ve removed dead links It all started with my work assignment of installing MacOSX Server 10.6 on the XServe rack. Briefly speaking, after debugging some hardware problem with the CPU temperature meter, I managed to install the base OSX server system there. After that I needed to set up VMs with 10.6 64bit and 10.4 32bit on top of that. Why so if already having 10. [Read More]

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 posts in the state of started but definitely not finished. Why is that so ? Is it that I am superbusy with my new work ? [Read More]