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Quoted

Posted by: aigarius in floss, idea, people, talking 10 years, 10 months ago

A person that I deeply respect and who is very know in Latvian IT society recently said that he often uses a quote of mine in his presentations. I completely forgot that I ever said that, but it sounds very much like what I would say, so I wanted to write it down so that I do not forget about it again:

Slow starting USB storage in Linux

Posted by: aigarius in debian, hack, hardware, linux 10 years, 10 months ago

I have this USB hard drive enclosure that can also share the files on the local network (LAN DRIVE HD9-U2LA, vendor id - 05e3:0702). Due to that it has an operating system and some other software inside. Unfortunately this software is rather slow to start and that cause the following kernel error when trying to mount this enclosure:

[90459.236000] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[90459.368000] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[90459.368000] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[90459.368000] usb-storage: device found at 9
[90459.368000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[90464.368000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[90470.148000] usb 5-5: USB disconnect, address 9
[90470.148000] scsi 4:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery


Terrorist Airlines

Posted by: aigarius in hack, idea, travel 10 years, 10 months ago

I can't believe I have not bogged about this before. With all that terrorism threat bullshit, wouldn't it be nice if there was an airline that would declare itself to be 'terrorist friendly' - i.e. all passangers are welcome to come on board with just a simple identity check, no security check, no baggage security check, no delays. You can arrive 10 minutes before departure and just fly away. Wouldn't that be nice?

In a quest for perfect sweet buns

Posted by: aigarius in food, photo 10 years, 10 months ago

Recipe in the image description. Got up at 7 and made a surprise batch of sweet buns for breakfast at 9. Girlfriend was very impressed. :D

Reply to AJ

Posted by: aigarius in debian, people 10 years, 11 months ago

AJ, if some blogs would support comments, I would leave my opinion there and not add noise to the planet.

Freedom of information production and distribution

Posted by: aigarius in debian, people 10 years, 11 months ago

Bernhard It is possible that you are not alone but nether are defenders of freedom if information production and distribution and in particular of freedom of speech. Trying to restrict what words people can or can not use (by labeling them sexist, racist or obscene) is the bread and butter of modern day media censorship. It is censorship and not "just political correctness". While I would not want people trying to limit contributions to Debian only to "smart and educated white people" (racism) or "logically thinking males" (sexism), going the other way and excluding people from Debian because their remarks or way of thinking might offend someone is just offensive to me. That is against the spirit of information freedom that free software is built upon.

Having a (pyro)blast with your new Ice Block

Posted by: aigarius in games, wow 10 years, 11 months ago

Here is something I wrote some while ago, hope this will be useful for some World of Warcraft p(l)ayers. Has no other relation to Linux or Debian, except it works on it flawlessly. Also note that 2.3.2 patch went live last week.