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2026 11

  1. SSJ – A small SSH client with multi-hop connections using direct-tcpip channels
  2. TS-Warp-1.5.12
  3. Шаг к успеху
  4. TS-Warp 1.5.11
  5. От грави-прыжка к гравиметрическому переходу
  6. Неудобный элемент
  7. Белый график красный, потому что зеленый
  8. Хроники Синаспейса
  9. Notes of a Romulan Praetor on the meeting between the President of the United Federation of Planets and the Borg Queen at a reception hosted by Q
  10. Заметки ромуланского претора о встрече президента Объединенной федерации планет и королевы Борг на приеме у Кью
  11. empty: Automation that matters

2025 4

  1. Посторонним выход
  2. В круге Синаспейса / Within the Circle of Synaspace
  3. How to install TS-Warp proxy client on Mac?
  4. NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION

2024 3

  1. TS-Warp-1.5.5 with DPI bypass
  2. Reinventing a wheel again: tSQLike
  3. Beating eval() slowness in Python

2023 9

  1. Just submitted my first bug-report to Apple Feedback Assistant
  2. TS-Warp-1.4.0 is out!
  3. Doing magic with a self modifying Python script
  4. TS-Warp 1.2.0 is out
  5. The real terminal screen-saver and locker
  6. My gift to all “alternative” history fans
  7. My daily protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  8. PAM authentication useful links
  9. empty-0.6.23b released

2022 13

  1. I was happy to help IBM closing some of the vulnerabilities this year…
  2. Feedbacks you didn’t expect
  3. Released empty-0.6.22b
  4. Booting FreeBSD from GZIP-compressed ZFS root volume – done
  5. Самый долгий крик: 2
  6. Самый долгий крик: первая буква
  7. Империя зла никуда не исчезала
  8. Future Russia macOS Keyboard Layout
  9. Самый долгий крик
  10. At what point GCC started to be Python?
  11. Бросаю Хабр
  12. My own SOCKS protocol redirector with a trans-warp engine
  13. Booting FreeBSD from GZIP-compressed ZFS root volume

2021 4

  1. How to upgrade Linux to FreeBSD remotely via SSH?
  2. “— Это не котельная! Это, извини меня, какая-то Сорбонна!..”
  3. Notes on Installing SCO Open Desktop Release 3.0 in 2021
  4. NoneType issues in chains of inherited dictionaries in Python

2020 20

  1. How to add/edit a userform in Excel on Mac?
  2. CentOS Linux becomes beta RHEL?
  3. It’s not on the approved list in Screen Time!
  4. A single write locks the entire SQLite database for both: reading and writing
  5. RAIDZ on-disk format vs. small blocks
  6. Modelling basic architectures of data storage systems
  7. What I have learned about science
  8. The BeaST Grid storage early stage
  9. FreeBSD 12.x CTL HA kernel panic
  10. The BeaST storage concept side-notes
  11. A quick memo on creating virtual machines using VirtualBox CLI
  12. Compare and patch two regular- or device- files block by block
  13. Supermatic! It works again!
  14. An elegant way to limit concurrency with Python asyncio
  15. Reviving Demos Commander
  16. GitHub down…
  17. Empty-0.6.21b released!
  18. Linkedin down
  19. You feel like an old, grumpy Socrates, …
  20. Never-ending joke

2019 8

  1. It’s not fair, Google!
  2. ASCII Saver – Screensaver for terminals
  3. Skills, Rules and Knowledge для IT-шника и человека
  4. Мое очень субъективное мнение о профессиональном и не только образовании в ИТ
  5. HEO – LEGO Boost robot
  6. New life of old socks
  7. amen.sh – Simplified vintage looking user interface elements for shell
  8. The real hardware for the BeaST storage system

2018 25

  1. Voice Control for Vernie, the robot based on LEGO
  2. My 2018 as a free software developer
  3. Supermatic – HTTP server in Bourne Shell
  4. Configuring Linux server to work with the BeaST storage system over iSCSI protocol
  5. “Empty” gets more mentions in hacking, IT security and science
  6. IPv6 multicast ping in Python
  7. My ICMP ping supports IPv6 now
  8. Compare two regular or device files block by block
  9. Printing lines side by side in shell
  10. Configuring Linux server to work with the BeaST storage system over iSCSI protocol
  11. Of course, not all of the scientists are so kind
  12. Children often ask me what I do at work (as a storage systems administrator)
  13. A nice way to return string values from functions in Bash
  14. Sorting Tumblrs you are following by their last activity
  15. A short script to change audit rules on a file or a directory in Microsoft Windows
  16. Settling down on GitLab
  17. OK, guys, which is the best free alternative to GitHub?
  18. The BeaST again!
  19. Funny Windows 10 Task manager
  20. A simple way to visualize IBM SVC/Storwize performance
  21. Азерот, Митрион, Зинтас…
  22. Well done, JavaScript. Well done!
  23. Quickly report alive IPv6 addresses on the network
  24. My article about scripting is included into the “IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines” Redbook
  25. Шифры Атбаш, Цезарь и Виженер в Гравити Фолз

2017 27

  1. Modelling arithmetic calculator in Fallout 4 game: Four bit adder
  2. Simple snake/wormlike creatures mod for Minetest game
  3. svcstats.py – Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface
  4. Extracting Performance Data from IBM Storwize
  5. Executing a batch of commands on multiple IBM SVC/Storwize storage systems
  6. Scan IBM SVC/Storwize system for “SCSI ID Mismatches”
  7. Accessing HP/3PAR storage systems using Python and SSH
  8. Short memo on COUNTIFS(), SUMIFS() and VLOOKUP() functions in MS Excel
  9. LLFD – Link, Login, Fabric, Devices
  10. What is the name of a new drive in my FreeBSD box
  11. Excel formulas syntax
  12. Accessing IBM SVC/Storwize devices with Python and SSH
  13. Getting data from IBM Spectrum Control. RESTful API usage example in Python
  14. D81S – simple SAN visualisation tool
  15. Another challenge for those, who can exit vi
  16. First sketches of the new BeaST Grid family storage system
  17. The BeaST storage system with ZFS and CTL HA, latest news
  18. Fighting with ZFS to make zpools failover/failback possible
  19. Quick MS Excel IsTime() and TypeIs() functions solution
  20. Fresh BSD Magazine with my article as a headline!
  21. Conway’s Game of Life for Excel
  22. Short memo for SSL/TLS debugging and session decrypting
  23. There is a super nice typical problem scenario #4…
  24. The BeaST Classic with RAID arrays and CTL HA + the BeaST Quorum
  25. The BeaST storage is one year old
  26. The new BSD Magazine with my article is finally out
  27. Solaris 2.6

2016 60

  1. Online command-line reference for scripting
  2. BeaST Quorum functional tests and usage explanations
  3. New BSD Magazine issue with my article!
  4. Fetching data from Hitachi Command Suite with HiCommandCLI, PowerShell and Python
  5. Quorum device for the FreeBSD CTL HA and the BeaST Storage system
  6. My article on FreeBSD CTL High Availability and ALUA functions is shown on BSD Now TV!
  7. Setting memory size for Hitachi Command Suite CLI (HICommandCLI)
  8. Brocade Communications in Advanced Talks to Sell Itself – Bloomberg
  9. Structure size optimization in C
  10. 8 bit Cinema is amazing!
  11. The BeaST storage is mentioned on BSD Now TV!
  12. How can you find out which process is listening on a port on Windows?
  13. Playing with the renewed CTL High Availability implementation in FreeBSD
  14. Quick reference for adding and attaching drives in VirtualBox CLI
  15. FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Announcement
  16. ZFS internals by Leal
  17. Hitachi Tuning Manager Agents cheat sheet
  18. “Using SSD as the Level Two Cache for the FreeBSD Dual-Controller Storage Array” in the fresh BSD Mag issue
  19. Quick check for Command Devices mapped from Hitachi arrays
  20. Division by zero: What’s happen if you do it on mechanical calculator?
  21. Hitachi Tuning Manager Agents installation funny messages
  22. Почему мой телефон не обновится до нового андроеда? – Official Russian – Medium
  23. OpenBSD humor [no] yes
  24. How to expand LDEVs on Hitachi storage systems using CCI
  25. BSD Mag continues to publish the BeaST related articles
  26. Grouping commands in the Bourne Shell (sh)
  27. mail.ru looks dead
  28. Famous Xerox Alto restoration
  29. “Приятный” сюрприз от Evernote
  30. The Malware Museum
  31. Using SSD as the level two cache for the FreeBSD dual-controller storage array
  32. WordPress fails to color the USA audience on the map
  33. The Great Martian War 1913-1917
  34. The new BSD Mag issue with our article: “Implementing In-Memory Cache in the BeaST Architecture” is out!
  35. My very first work for science!
  36. Our IBM Storwize V5000 Gen 2 book is out!
  37. Optimizing in-memory cache of the BeaST architecture
  38. The BeaST is now on the BSDMag cover!
  39. Version 1.1 of the “Implementing in-memory cache in the BeaST architecture” paper
  40. English to Russian translation difficulties
  41. BSD Mag started to post our articles on the BEAST: the FreeBSD reliable storage architecture
  42. The BeaST FreeBSD reliable storage architecture is shown on TV!
  43. Simple work to do
  44. Implementing in-memory cache in the BeaST architecture
  45. A UDP joke
  46. Somebody ate too much
  47. Command line Russian roulette
  48. Adding ZFS to the FreeBSD dual-controller storage concept
  49. BSDMag to publish my articles
  50. Yes, we know how to…
  51. Fight for Twitter
  52. FreeBSD based dual-controller reliable storage system concept
  53. How do you generate a random string?
  54. FreeBSD based dual-controller storage system concept papers to publish
  55. My O’Reilly’s author profile
  56. “Empty” for Metasploit on Kali Linux
  57. Пебибайты, Зебибайты, Йобибайты
  58. Computer History Museum
  59. A view from my window
  60. Американские ученые вычислили объем человеческой памяти

2015 12

  1. My EMPTY tool helps AppPot to bridge the Grid and Cloud worlds
  2. Hak5 about my “empty” utility once again!
  3. Утилита empty в IT-шном шоу
  4. Я знаю кунг фу
  5. Questions of dummies for dummies: #1
  6. Microsoft Excel стал более лучше сохранять файлы
  7. Робот с мозгами геймера Самообучаемый компьютерный интеллект научился видеоиграм «с нуля»: The New Yorker
  8. Потомственный шаман, целитель, заклинатель Storage, врачеватель SAN
  9. Леонид Каганов: 2015/01/29 Ахтунг: следилка от провайдера
  10. Python глазами новичка
  11. Apple побила рекорд «Газпрома» по чистой прибыли за квартал
  12. 7 перпендикулярных красных линий

2014 10

  1. Оказывается, empty уже девять лет
  2. Финский программист запустил Quake на осциллографе
  3. Кто ответит за Яндекс?
  4. А между тем, Кукареку!
  5. Hewlett Packard C110/9000
  6. HPDiscover 2014: картинки с выставки
  7. Очень старые статьи
  8. Параллельный запуск команд из shell скрипта в *NIX
  9. FreeBSD-9.0: жизнь с GPT и gmirror
  10. Virtualbox, Intel Core i5 and “corrupted” devd on FreeBSD 10.x