Year: 2014

Corruption in Cyprus

Corruption in Cyprus

Around 55 per cent of companies in Cyprus who took part in a public tender over the last three years claim that corruption prevented them from winning the contract, the highest percentage in the EU, according to the Commission’s anti-corruption report published on Monday.

Conflicts of interest in bid evaluation were reported in 76 per cent of cases, collusive bidding in 68 per cent, abuse of negotiated procedures in 62 per cent, unclear selection or evaluation criteria in 61 per cent, and amendment of contract terms after the contract is concluded stood at 55 per cent.

International Space Station Assembly

Absolutely amazing!  Humans have created this complex structure, bit by bit, while it flies 370 kilometers high and covers over 7 kilometers per second!  And while there are actual humans inside it too.

What’s more amazing is that having proof of the fact that we can work all together, we still kill each other over sill things like religion, skin color, and money.  I wonder when we’ll get over it finally and start working together more.  Maybe never …

Fedora and USB disks going into /run/media/user

Fedora and USB disks going into /run/media/user

As part of systemd/DBus revolution, newer Fedoras have this annoying feature that all USB disks get mounted into to /run/media/[user]/[diskname] (also /var/run/media, which is a symlink).

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To return old behavior back and make udisks2 change mount point to /media, create a file /etc/udev/rules.d99-usb-shared-media.rules:

ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1" 

udev should notice and read this file automatically. After this, just unplug and plug your USB drive back to see it in good old /media.