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By Babak Farrokhi, June 21, 2004 1:20 pm

When Yahoo! Messenger gets excited:

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By Babak Farrokhi, May 29, 2004 11:27 am

I didn’t know that Nokia IPSO is running FreeBSD as its core.

Chances are that my Nokia handset is also running FreeBSD.

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By Babak Farrokhi, May 17, 2004 6:16 pm

If you think MT is dead and you are considering to switch, WordPress is not the only good choice out there.

Do not forget giving Serendipity a try. I guess someone from serendipity development team should add MT import function to this software. I really hope they do. And I bet it will attract many users.

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By Babak Farrokhi, May 14, 2004 10:14 am

I thought they are already making enough money from TypePad to keep MT free. But it turned out that I was wrong!

MovableType 3.0 is not what I was really expecting. It’s not free anymore, and that limited free version is not what I need.

For the moment, I will stick with my current MT 2.661 installation, but I am thinking to switch. Like others do.

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By Babak Farrokhi, May 13, 2004 5:44 pm

After a default install (windows or Unix), I can’t go ahead without having these tools installed:

- Putty (SSH/SFTP client for windows)
- tcsh (I wonder how can people prefer bash to tcsh!)
- Postfix (Superior to sendmail)
- grep (UNIX without grep is like home without light)
- wget (Full control over downloads. I even use it in windows)
- mc (de facto file manager for CLI)
- portupgrade (Addictive port upgrading utility for FreeBSD)

Living as a SysAdmin without these utilities if is not impossible, but is a real pain.

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By Babak Farrokhi, April 28, 2004 8:22 pm

Two words: Zempt Sucks!

Why? Let me tell you the story:

I was aware of different windows clients for posting to weblogs without logging into their web based interface and writing through their standard input method. I always tried some of them. But I did it for test reason. I am too much curious.
This is where Zempt comes in. I heard people talking about the Zempt. It is a windows based client for posting blog entries to Movable Type based blogs using XML-RPC. Thats fine. So I thought it would be fine to give it a try. and I did, but I wish I didn’t!

I was too sleepy and tired. so prepared a test entry and posted it as a “draft”. It means it should not appear in my blog, it should only be saved for future use. and after posting draft I went to sleep.

Today morning, I met a close friend and we started talking about many things until he told me that he read my blog but he couldn’t post comment to my last entry, titled “Teaching, Finding a new person inside yourself“. WTF? I didn’t post that. It was not supposed to be posted. That was only a test.

Damn you Zempt. I didn’t want to post this entry. It supposed to be a test entry to see how things work using Zempt. And it didn’t even rebuild the pages correctly. Only the main page was rebuilt, without creating an individual entry for the post.

And here is why I do not trust those softwares. I always prefer the MT interface, even if its creepy. And sorry for the previous post (I am not going to remove it though!)

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By Babak Farrokhi, April 26, 2004 4:47 pm

There is many compression software and algorithms available today. Many people are still using zip (the oldie but goodie) while many others are cult of RAR. In UNIX, the gzip is the classic and widely used compression program, but bzip2 seems to have many fans either. Mac users are still using StuffIt since I guess they have no more choice! (Correct me if I am wrong please)

You are also using your favorite compression program with your very own custom settings perhaps, which fit the best for your needs.
Everything that we know about our favorite compression program is that it “feels” faster or “probably” makes smaller archives. But have you ever tested different programs yourself to compare them? I did.

Continue reading 'Compression utilities comparison'»

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By Babak Farrokhi, April 10, 2004 11:52 pm

Their player is a royal PITA. They are losing the market, and it’s not Microsoft’s fault. It’s their own fault.

The process to download and install the free RealPlayer is now an exercise in stealth (see if you can actually find the free version to download) and tedium (now unckeck all these boxes to avoid being spammed, don’t forget to scroll down the page). Then, and only then, if you actually get past the install, manage to avoid getting 15 links splattered across your desktop, start menu and who knows where else, then you get …drumroll… a whole new source of pop-ups!

And everyone knows how this story ends.

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By Babak Farrokhi, April 10, 2004 7:52 pm

Following my Solaris experience, I came across this question while installing Postfix package:

Do you want to install these as setuid/setgid files [y,n,?,q] y
ERROR: Please enter yes or no.

Very stupid. It asked to enter “y” or “n” or “?” or “q” as answer. But it is expecting “yes” or “no” in fact. What kind of question is it???

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By Babak Farrokhi, March 13, 2004 10:12 pm

They are up and running and almost tested well.
I have created two mailing lists: iranperl-announce and iranperl-talk. (I assume you know how it works through the web interface).

If you prefer the registration by email, send email to iranperl-announce-request@iranperl.com and/or iranperl-talk-request@iranperl.com with “subscribe” in the message body, and wait for confirmation email.

If it didn’t work or anything goes wrong, email me directly. There are things to be tuned yet.