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Игорь Морозов - На самом краешке земли
Video of a live performance of a song "At the very end of Earth" by poet and singer Igor Morozov. Very interesting fellow, formerly a colonel in GRU (Military intelligence), did a number of tours of duty in Afghanistan during the Soviet field trip there, very good poet. Alot of his songs are about wars, WWII, and the war in Afghanistan, in which ( Read more... ) -
Несколько "тостов" с концерта Михаила Кочеткова
Just a few random pieces of poetry from a concert of a Moscow poet and singer (we call people like that "bards") Mikhail Kochetkov.
Несколько "тостов" с концерта Михаила Кочеткова:
Жизнь свою я сам конечно загубил,
Ведь рождён я был за светлое сражаться.
Будь я Ленин, я бы Крупскую убил.
Будь я Энгельс, задушил бы нафиг Маркса.
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Decrypting PDFs using GhostScript
For what it's worth, you can use GhostScript to convert encrypted PDFs that have owner password set (but do not have open password set) to unencrypted PDFs using the following command line:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unencrypted.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f encrypted.pdf
It's quite slow (since each object gets decrypted ( Read more... ) -
Yes, Ultra 10 boots OpenSolaris snv_130
To my great surprise, latest (and last, RIP SXCE) OpenSolaris runs (well, glaciates) on an Ultra 10. Considering that the Ultra 10 was first sold in 1999, and sold last in 2002, we are talking about 8 year old system ( Read more... ) -
Novatel MC950D USB modems fail
I had two Novatel MC950D USB HSDPA/UMTS/GPRS modems fail on me so far. First unit was bought on eBay from HongKong, was a generic unlocked unit, and worked for about 2 months before dieing in the middle of use. Second one was Rogers branded, and bought for 129 CAD at Future shop, and worked also for about 2 months, failing sometime between uses, ( Read more... )