The poster covers hole in the wallpaper. Really.

I know it’s way too tidy for an indie game developer, I’ll work on that.

Not that I will write here a lot from now on. Just a little bits of information, I mean, why not, eh?

Oh, I just remembered that I’m being read by one person that isn’t me.

Edit: Stupid bash misquotation removed for good.

HA-ha, I have a laptop now!

Just bought one yesterday, a Samsung R20. Ye-ye, chinese crap, I know… But it was one of the cheapestmost affordable ones among the smallest. And I want my laptop small, because it’s a fucking LAP TOP, and it’s intended to be small and light, not some 17″ monster with GeForce8800 (19″? You’re scaring the crap out of me).

(more rant follows)

It had Vista Basic preinstalled, with (obviously patented, XD) Samsung Recovery Solution on board. If you don’t know what that means, tie yourself to the chair. OK. So, most of things that Samsung Recovery does are:
- eating up (roughly) 60% of HDD space
- for backing up your windows™ partition if you ever decide to.
- in addition to “backup” partition that takes 50% of disk space it eats ~10GB for backing up Windows™. Did I mention that Vista wants (roughly) 6GB of space? And that’s Vista Basic. Judging by the manual (which says I could upgrade to Vista Ultimate anytime – I just need to buy a license (no thanks)), it takes as much as Vista Ultimate do…

So, my solution to all the problems were:

1. Ta-ta, Samsung Recovery Solution II The Judgment Day, you knew too much
2. Hello, Mandriva Free 2007 (actually I’ll install Debian once I’ll acquire it)

Works like a charm, with only problem of absence of videoadapter’s drivers for Mandriva, hence using fbdev, hence (because my laptop is widescreen, ugh) somewhat stretched image, but that’s I can live with. At least it’s better than not-to-mention-it-another-time that knows the trick of spontaneosly hanging without reason. Good trick, but not the one I like.

P.S. I mean, even if they were supplying each copy of Vista with a complimentary blowjob, I’d thought twice before going for it,

Because of this, there could be a (small) time span of inaccessibility of downloads, forums etc., saving this blog – because it’s hosted by wordpress.com – may Gmhoz bless them. Because you get my RSS feed from this blog, it shall also survive.

After that, I’ll post a brand new adress for all things FSi-related.

Hopefully on 2nd level domain (i.e. http://example.com, not http://example.somefucker.com as it always was before).

Decide for yourself, just click “read more”

Abandoned house. It’s located on the street where I live.

Twenty years ago it was the Third Cafeteria. Don’t ask me why was it called “Third”, it’s just a soviet naming convention. Possibly to confuse enemy spies. Once it was one of the county’s best, now it’s pretty much junkies hideout.

Close-up of its entry.

Boarded entry doesn’t stop junkies from entering it, they just use windows (or back door).

Another shot of the entry.

Now, this is one of a few monuments of that kind that are left in my town (I do live in Russia). This one is even looked after.

Junkyard down the street.

Another shot. Notice the funny-sized bath. I used to be washed in the same one when I was much younger.

Pipes. Used to be central heating ones, now just pieces of junk.

Pool of green goo. Notice the lucky product placement (no, I’m not getting paid for these, how could you even think of it!)

Hope you’ll like my town too