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happy monday to me!

Andriy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:03:25 +0000

so, here’s a personal update for you… apparently for the last few days I’ve been getting ripped off,….. someone’s been busy with my credit card in Portugal. My American Express card is showing all these charges ranging from fast food, gas, to automotive repair in Portugal where clearly ( and sadly) I am NOT!

awesome…

lucky for me AMEX is great at taking care of these things… and at least this time it was fast food and gasoline and NOT military grade ammunition like someone from Turkey decided to charge up on my card back in 2003…

about the only charge on here that’s mine is Wall Street Journal subscription…

…also judging by the charges, tha’s one stylish (and well feed) criminal..i only hope he shared his newfound (all be it temporary) wealth with someone special..cause that’s a lot to pay for a meal in Portugal for one person…

12 month later…

Andriy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:32:07 +0000

As gallantly pointed out by ellen it’s been a few month since last post of any personal relevance.
A lot has happened over the last year most of which (of course ) will not be mentioned here. However, some of the relevant personal highlights would probably include these:

Back to school, working on an MBA. Currently in the home stretch of the last couple of classes…(graduation May 09)
Sean and Rachel getting engaged, (wedding December 28, 2008), website here….
Busy with all sorts of work, school and other randomness that just seems to take up ALL of the available time.

o yeah, and apparently, i collect these now…

my favorite ftp client for mac

Andriy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:25:54 +0000

For years now I have used Transmit from Panic.com for all my FTP and server connecting needs on my Mac. Although I tend to minimize the use of third-party apps and use my Mac OS X built-in features as much as possible, sometimes you just need a little extra and this little app does just that.
I like Transmit for several reasons, but the largest one is that it provides me with the usability I need without the extra junk. I hate applications that are packed with useless features and show-off nonsense programming.
Main features of Transmit that I use daily are FTP/SFTP/WebDAV protocols and easy to setup and use Amazon S3 connection. However, I must note that I tend to use native Mac OSX “connect to server” feature for WebDAV more than Transmit application. But for large, prolonged file transferes it seems to work better than the OS native option.

More info on this application here.

To login to FTP servers I prefer to use one of my favorite Mac OS apps, Transmit…. this client is light, quick and has just enough bells and whistles to work pretty much for anything. (including SFTP, Amazon S3, and WebDAV connections)
This tutorial is probably redundant but here it goes anyway…

1.) Download latest version of Transmit from www.panic.com

2.) Follow installation directions included (simply copying it from .dmg to your Applications folder)

3.) Open the application.

4.) Type in the server you are trying to access into the SERVER box (ie: ftp.yourserver.com)

5.) Use the username/password provided (User Name: your username Password: your password)

6.) Click Connect

7.) Simply browse through the directories and drag whatever you would like to download from the right screen into whatever folder you want it at on your computer on the left.

Here are some screenshots:

slipstream drivers into windows xp installation

Andriy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:55:47 +0000

Although HP, Dell and some other large computer manufacturers make generally decent products, the fact that you need separate drivers for every single thing on the computer is annoying. For some of the Dell and HP computers you can hardly load windows without searching for all sorts of drivers and patches which very from one device to another.

Recently, I needed to re-install Windows XP on one of our work laptops (HP nx9420). All in all it’s a pretty good machine but it was getting a little sluggish. While trying to boot with Windows XP SP3 disk i noticed that the installation wizard was not detecting the hard drive. After little more research I discovered that the reason why windows installation kept missing the hard drive was because in these laptops hard drives are SATA and Windows XP is not meant to boot SATA drives. So here goes my search for ways to revive this poor computer without calling HP.

This is my solution…

nLite software allows to slipstream SATA (and any other drivers) into a fresh Windows XP install CD which will then boot and recognize the SATA hard drive and anything also you may need during the installation process (video drivers perhaps).

Also I’ve discovered that nLite will allow to create unattended installation CD’s and it will combine the Windows XP keys and all sorts of other good stuff into the disk.
Basically all in all a good little program and super easy to use…

Also, for those that need it, here are extracted nx9420 sata drivers:
nx9420 SATA drivers (17)

my site, the iPhone version

Andriy — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:27:27 +0000

Since I don’t feel like posting anything useful, I figured I should at least share that my website now can be accessed via shiny new iPhone interface.

Since this site doesn’t really see ton’s of traffic, this upgrade is mostly for me, so that I can do entries from my phone without having to load the whole thing. But, if you are one of the “lucky” ones that has an iPhone I’m sure you’ll appreciate the new improved loading speed. Of course, once the 3G iPhone comes out ( as rumored that will happen on the 9th of next month) then you don’t have to worry about this nonsense as you will be able to browse most everything at the new and improved speeds..:

spring in michigan

Andriy — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:30:30 +0000

Obviously I’m a little out of practice… Although Nike says “Relive How you Run”, I say there are some runs that are better left forgotten:)

facebook clone

Andriy — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:31:54 +0000

I miss the days when there was only one social networking website I didn’t want to be a part of. Now with myspace, facebook, linkedin and others I find myself logging in to ten different websites just to answer to messages from my friends,…. but if only that was it…
…as the internet becomes cheaper and more importantly, more available across the world, I am once again, presented with forceful “encouragement” to join numerous social networking websites to keep in touch with people that I have largely lost touch with from my past.
Of course as they say..”curiosity killed the cat“, so as a well behaved consumer I login to these websites and create accounts to once again “keep in touch”

Well interestingly enough, the latest social networking website that i have been “encouraged” to join by some relatives from Russia turned out to be anything but, Russian.
Well the website itself is in Russia (i suppose) and it has a Russian name ( www.vkontakte.ru ) but there’s just something on that website that looked entirely too familiar…..

Basically it looks like the guy that owns that site took facebook.com code and translated it in Russian.

Good for him, looks like he is taking advantage of seemingly non existent copyright laws. Even if Facebook wanted to prevent him from blatantly stealing their code, i doubt there is much they can do.

(click the thumbnails for larger view)

wed…

Andriy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:10:56 +0000

As the spring semester began everything was a little crazy. Work, school and other random stuff just seemed to pile up to the point where i didn’t know where to begin. Now, a few days into the semester and the new year things have finally began to make sense. Schedules, lists, sticky notes, iPhone alarms, they are all to thank for the seemingly rare commodity that the organized life has become these days. However, as routines and schedules settle in, when there is that point where future values and demand curves no longer make sense I find myself missing this guy. . . from all the nonsense that is not available on television as a result of the writers strike i have to admit “The Office” is the one thing i do miss. It was nice having blissful 30 24 minutes of ironically realistic TV.

BRING BACK THE OFFICE !!!

creative advertisement

Andriy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:33:53 +0000

the Europeans might not have this whole “democracy” thing down, but they sure beat the USA in advertising creativity….

indeed…let us keep dreaming of a better world…

and of course, i know paul is going to like this one:)

Macworld 2008

Andriy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:19:28 +0000

It’s almost here, one of the most anticipated technology gatherings world-wide. Over the last several years Macworld has become a technology conference to watch for. Lately even over shadowing the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
It’s here a year ago Steve Jobs made the iPhone announcement, in the years past this event was a launching pad for iPod and new and exciting additions to the Apple’s notebook line up.
I don’t know what to expect and as I have learned in the past rumors tend to be either 100% correct or completely false so it’s rather hard to gauge what might be expected tomorrow based on those….

So, I guess the only thing left is to wait and see. Personally my hope for tomorrow is that Steve Jobs will make my stock go back up passed $200 and actually stay there this time…