I found this list of most harmful books of the last two centuries via Alex Exler’s LiveJournal. Of course, the harmness of the each book is very subjective and depends on who are the judges. Also, interesting to note, that although books are considered harmful, each entry has a link to appropriate Amazon.com page.
I myself flipped through a couple of books in this list while I was a teenager. Now I am more interested in reading them, but I don’t have any copies around.
I came across Blogs Of The Day a couple of days ago. It is a nice resources for those who maintain WordPress blogs. It is a some sort of rating site. You can install a WordPress plugin, activate it, and your blog will automatically participate in the ratings. Both most visited blogs and most popular articles are displayed. The site is still in beta, but it is rock solid and grows constantly. At this time it features 140 blogs.
I have installed and activated the pluging about two days ago. None of my posts are on the Buzzlist, but my blog is in the Top 40 Sites (17th at the moment) and in the Top 20 Homes (10th at the moment). Don’t ask me for the difference between Sites and Homes though as I haven’t figured it out myself yet.
Two good things about Blogs Of The Day are:
If you run WordPress – try it out.
One of the little annoyances of Gnu Arch is that it does not add files and directories recursively. Not to worry, though. Here is a little shell script that can assist with that task:
#!/bin/bash
# Find all files and directories, skipping ./{arch}
for FILE in `find . -path './{arch}' -prune -o -print`
do
# Get rid of the leading ./
FILE=`echo $FILE | sed -e 's/\.\///'`
tla add "$FILE"
done
Skipping the script itself is left as an exercise to the reader.
Update: Simplier method indeed is
tla inventory --source --names | xargs tla add
Murphy’s Law is still at work:
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Just when I thought I was finishing with integrating main LDAP parts (that includes installation, configuration and testing of LDAP server, deployment of LDAP cluster, development of all needed web interfaces, documenting everything, training other people to use the system, etc) into our network infrastructure at work, I get these news:
“Red Hat Announces Directory Server”
Trying to keep myself positive, I was thinking that Red Hat will make it into a commercial product available for its Enterprise Linux product series. The second I thought that, I get these news:
“Fedora Directory Server Now Available to the Open Source Community”
Oh, well. The only thing I’m happy with is that I already have a tested and developed system, while all those people who are planning to use Red Hat Directory Server will just start their journey. And, of course, LDAP being an open standard, I am at easy with the possibilities of further migrations.
P.S.: More informationa about the Directory Server is here.
Until now I’ve been using http://www.rambler.ru/dict for all my translation needs. I realize that it might not at all be the best out there, but it is was good enough. I wanted something fast and simple. No need for phrases, just quick word translations from Russian to English, and back.
I think I’ll be switching to http://lingvo.yandex.ru now. It is also a good enough alternative. And fast enough. It also takes care of the greatest annoyance I have with the Rambler dictionary – language switching. When asking for the translation, I think, it is pretty obvious which language the original word is in. So, if I type ‘muse’ and ask for the English/Russian translation, it is obvious that I have typed an English word and I want thus a Russian translsation. For some strange reason, with Rambler, I had to specify. But I would have minded it aswell, if not the ugly interface. Check it out. What is the problem? Well, the language switch is after the submit button. That’s inconvenient.
I’ve been coping with this for far too long. Enough!
P.S.: Yandex dictionary has another nice feature – it shows the meaning of the word in other languages too. Educational.