KMail has a nice feature which is mentioned in the FAQ but surely deserves a bit more publicity – partial quoting of the message. If one wishes to quote only a part of the message, than selecting the appropriate part before hitting the Reply will do the trick. This feature can save a lot of time spent deleting unnecessary quoted text.
Year: 2005
PHP turns 10 or new ways of starting holly wars
Slashdot has an article about PHP turning 10 years old. Scrolling through the comments for the post, it seems that Slashdot editors found a new way of starting holly wars. But instead of limiting themselves with “X vs. Y” type of holly war, they do it in “X vs. everything else” manner. Makes for some interesting reading.
Car service
Since I don’t have anything else to blog about, I’ll post about my car service. Every 10,000 kilometers or so I service the car. Air filter, oil filter, sparks are all getting changed. There is also a routine check up of the engine and other internals on the computer. Sometimes they would take it for a test drive to see if everything sounds nice. Not so often they would change brakes (every 20,000 kilometers or so I guess), timing belt (every 100,000 kilometers) and other parts.
The E.F.I. Technics garage that I am using is not one of the cheapes places on the planet, but they really know their stuff. Or at least they seem to know, as far as I can judge. I paid 125 CYP for today’s service. The biggest numbers on the list were for computer test of the engine – 30 CYP and sparks (12 CYP a piece times 4 equals 48 CYP). Every time they change the sparks, they remind me that sparks for this car are way too expensive. Heh, I tend to agree.
Anyway, the car is shining clean and feels brand new now. It behaves nicely, drives smoothly and gives me confidence.
Linux locale
If you have nothing better to do, read man 7 locale.
Rock festival in Nicosia
Once again Andrey Shvachko informs all rock and rock-n-roll fans that there is an event coming soon.
Date: June 17, 2005 (Friday)
Time: 20:00 – 00:00
Place: Amphetheatre of Intercollege campus, Nicosia
There will be several bands performing. Andrey will participate in two of them.
No information about tickets and no map so far. But finding Intercollege is very easy. Here are the instructions: when entering Nicosia from Limassol-Nicosia motorway, go left to the roundabout, than go left again to enter the main road which goes around Nicosia. Drive straight. You’ll pass Orphanides supermarket on the left, Metro supermarket on the left, Jumbo supermarket on the right. Keep going straight until you reach the T-junction. There will be a huge church on your right. Turn right and drive straight until you see Intercollege buildings on your right (about 5 kilometers later).
There is a discussion at the RussianCyprus Forum, as usual. Stay tuned for more information.