It’s better late then …

It has been quite some time since I’ve returned from Netherlands but I never managed to put some photos here. So I’ll try to make up for that with the following series of funny photos (feel free to click on them):

This is a nice cafe in Antwerpen:

Note: Panos in Russian means “diarrhea”

Dangerous hatch cover:

Please zoom in

Gentleman in Amsterdam (Red Lights District):

And you can see some more here

The Linux Quest

Preface

As I wrote before, I’ve been using Kubuntu Edgy 64bit and I was pretty much satisfied with it.
The only problem I had was with my laptops built-in web camera. There are no drivers for Linux and it doesn’t seem there will be anything in the near future.

(Note: there are some people out there struggling to create those drivers but I don’t think they will have any good results till end of this year)

And when my parents asked to set up skype video conference with their friends I had no other choice then installing windows.

And as I’ve been using the Kubuntu for 4 month I decided to reformat my entire system and do a clean setup of Windows and Linux.

Fixing sound in Linux (simple tip)

I’m running Kubuntu Edgy 64bit on my laptop.

And I had this strange problem, my laptop speakers wouldn’t work although headphones did work fine and everything in my KMix was set to maximum.

The solution was just too simple and I wouldn’t post it here but it seems to me many people might come accross this and I hope my little note will save them time.

Just type alsamixer in console and turn everything to maximum :) (Don’t forget to turn mute off using “m” key)

Google Rocks (zh00T)

Google has realeased an optimized IE7 :)) LOL

I especially did like this part of the banner:

Glamourous Snowboard

While wondering aroung Tallin center I noticed the most glamorous snowborad I have ever seen - a Hugo Boss Snowboard:

Click on it to see the “Hugo Boss” zoomed

Back from Tallinn

Just returned from Tallinn, Estonia

It was a rather short trip so I didn’t have time to explore the city. I’ve spent most of my time in the historical center of the city.

The center of Tallinn is rather hilly. And I loved that cause I’m kind of tired of flatness of Saint Petersburg. And I really enjoyed just wondering around in the center.

Only once we had a chance to go really far ( that means we took a bus :) ). It was when we decided to take a look at the city from far above and traveled to the TV tower. It’s pretty high, the sight area is at 174 meters and it’s only half way up. But unfortunately the view sucked :(. So if you ever go to Tallinn forget about the TV tower, better climb on to the Olivest tower if it’s open or at least visit Radison SAS hotel roof.

As of language I developed a simple algorithm: if the person you want to ask is young then use English, otherwise use Russian (oops, of course if you know it)

For those who know Russian, you can visit my friends blog he has more photos and nice review of Tallinn sights.

Big thanks to Moussa Bashir

I want to thank Moussa Bashir once again for giving me this account!

His blog is available at http://urshalim.blogspot.com/

Flock the world

Let me start-off this post with this cute button

I’ve been surfing through the web recently and came across this interesting web browser called Flock. It is very young and raw so far but it looks very promising. This is what’s on their main page:

Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

I’ve been using it for last 2 hours or so and I like it. By the way, I’m writing this post from within Flock w/o opening the livejournal page.