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I’m really disappointed in Cisco today….

Today they had a major bug on their website – the webmaster must have done a s/t//g over the main website, resulting in all t‘s disappearing on the website, which resulted in css and javascript not displaying at all.

They fixed it in about 2 hours. Quite long for _such_ a company. But hey, shit happens to everybody! So i’m not blaming them…

And now, the same day, security advisory for Cisco with 12 (yes, TWELVE!!!!) security vulnerabilities for cisco IOS’es.

WHAT THE ******?!

I mean, really… Cisco, what happened with you?!

Yet another email address i’m available at: alex#at#ntp.org

This Saturday – the last weekend of summer, me and my friends (Oksana, klon and ‘coj’) went to a forest. The place is located ~50 km from Vilnius – it’s really beautiful.

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I usually don’t shutdown any of my computers, except when my girlfriend sleeps at my place. Yesterday was that kind of day, so i shutdown my notebook not to distract her sleeping.

In the morning, when she asked me to look when her bus leaves, i have powered up my notebook…and…. nothing…

What the f*ck?!?!!

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I have found a few funny EMO-related pics, so i thought i’ll show them here.

EMO Choices

Reason why we should give the razor blades away.

EMO Emu

On August 15 WordPress 2.6.1 was released – i haven’t updated my blog because the update didn’t have any improvements i needed.

A few days ago, some guy in #wordpress @freenode mentioned a WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin – so i thought i’ll give it a try and update my blog using it.

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Hooray, i took 2 weeks of vacations – from August 18th till September 1st.

I have some private stuff to do, so i won’t be leaving the country this year.

Also, having some more spare time for this two weeks, maybe i will write more stuff here or do some additional IT-related stuff about which i will leave some blog entries.

In september the studies start, so i’ll have less free time

Last Friday of July is the international System Administrators Appreciation Day.

So, I want to congratulate all the geeks on the internet and wish you a good sysadmin day!

For everybody else – if you have a sysadmin friend – congratulate him! Even better, buy him a gift, a beer, a new 23″ LCD display or anything like that!

If not sysadmins, then you wouldn’t be reading this blog at all, if not sysadmins – you couldn’t make a phone call, if not sysadmins – you wouldn’t be able to do most of the things that “just work” for you.

If not sysadmins – there wouldn’t be any internet or any network at all!

So, go run to the nearest shop, buy a six-pack and go congratulate your sysadmin

Oh, and by the way, the lithuanian sysadmin day contest is over, and the winner is already known (but it’s not published yet), but i want to congratulate him and thank all the other sysadmins who took a part in this contest – it was a pleasure to look how you guys dealt with all the tasks, and was a bit sad to know that 3 or 4 out of 16 tasks weren’t completed at all

Those tasks were really hard, though. So, that’s not a big problem that nobody completed them, don’t cry!

Hostex’s SysAdminDay begins.

The tasks where just uploaded to the website and people can already view it here.

I’m one of the guys who get the answers to all the tasks and rate them, so i’m very interested in how will people do them! The tasks are really interesting, and i really wouldn’t like if somebody would cheat. It’s all about the process, not about the result!

So, anyway, have a nice game guys!

Hooray, next Friday is the System Administrator Appreciation Day (or just Sysadmin Day).

Hostex, one of Lithuania’s biggest hosting and data-center companies, announced the already annual sysadminday contest (3rd year in a row).

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