Homepage tweak contd

NOT ONLY When this string is set as homepage in a browser (FF2 and IE6 were tested)

javascript:location.href="/";

pressing "Home" button leads you to the main (root) page of a current site (domain)

BUT ALSO

javascript:location.href="..";

means upper level

you can also add such "buttons" as links on the link panel

this also deals with "?=" parameter "style=mine" in LiveJournal with considering "#"'s and other "?='"s

Russian Wikipedia "a top internet community"

I have written just now

Homepage tweak

When this string is set as homepage in a browser (FF2 and IE6 were tested)

javascript:location.href="/";

pressing "Home" button leads you to the main (root) page of a current site (domain)

Medvedev to visit RIF

Newly elected Russian will-be president Dmirty Medvedev is to attend forthcoming Russian Internet Forum, according to what I wrote to the article.

English writings

I write regularly in English to Wikipedia, one can watch my contributions live at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ss_r. Also I write at times to Wikinews, contributions page is http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ssr. Recently I wrote also Español a poco también, pero still muy poco (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/Sergei-sr).

My last Wikinews article is about Russian Wikipedia reaching 250K articles, see it at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia_makes_quarter_million_articles (later it was translated in Spanish (not by me) as -->).

My radio on Last.fm

I have added the great Last.fm radio to the frontpage of this blog, see at http://sergeisergeievich.blogspot.com/

This is the free radio containing some of my favorite songs (those available to Last.fm for broadcasting) as gathered from long-term statistics in my Winamp. The player uses Flash so you don't need to install extra software; but keep in mind that it constantly consumes traffic while playing, if you care about it. You may visit Last.fm and learn about their numerous other great music services.

Some will say Ananda Shake has many songs similar to one another. This is not a bug, but a feature I would say

Reading Wikipedia is a skill

Many misinterpret what Wikipedia is because of lack of capability to read it properly. Unlikely what many see at first sight, Wikipedia is a complicated and sophisticated entity (and is popular moreover) so one must learn how to read it and not just take literally what is written. One must bear in mind that the text is multilayered and different pieces of it are written by different people at different times (reminder: all previous versions of each article are kept and can be read by anyone by clicking 'history'). It may be that an article has one main author and mixed additions of links, templates categories and so on. Sometimes it is clearly visible from the style, but there must be understanding that it can't be directly visible. That's how you may visualize it (different result every click).

English thoughts repository

So it again seems to me that I have an intention to make this blog a place for my English posts. Soon I'll be placing links to it to some of my other-site profile pages. A list of them is placed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssr

Wikipedia definition

I see the following conclusion nowadays. One of the major problems of Wikipedia is misunderstanding of the Spirit of the Project by large masses. The Spirit is in flexibility and actuality with possible presence of errors. Wikipedia (with Wikinews) is the Unifying kind of journalism (writing about life) with volunteer "civil journalists". Thus Wikipedia (in any language) can be seen as a mass media in an especial format.

It may contain information from any types of sources or comments with no sources (can be requested if needed). It may fail to contain what you want to see. It may contain untruthful information (report it). Information may be altered at any time (some data is altered regularly). Whoever doesn't understand this should bear this in mind next time reading Wikipedia. If you want to treat Wikipedia as an authoritative source and find a "nonsense" instead, maybe also wanting to "punish someone" for this, stop using the project (including using links to it somewhere) or change your approach.

An error in Wikipedia = error in press ≠ error in a sci-book

Traditional encyclopedia format couldn't withstand permanent actualisation. The format now can be merged with mass media format with weakened "authoritativity" featuring freedom of speech (and a right to have errors until they are corrected). Wikipedia is for reading by public what is written by public for free, not "authoritatively" written for basing "serious researches" or commercial reports on. Let scientists and accountants do their own work and find better matching authoritative sources (without rights to have errors). Wikipedia's "popularity" can't necessarily make some article a "serious" stuff.

I have decided to publish posts in English here since now. Maybe, I will have to communicate in English via this engine.

Перерегистрировался. Превед!

livejournal ЖЖ down implosion interruption лежит

Всем превед!

Окончание истории

http://lenta.ru/internet/2005/01/16/zhzhup/

Апач картинку нарисовал

http://apazhe.weaponer.com/trash/lj_no_power_failure.jpg

Падение ЖЖ

Я думаю (шутка), что это происки Microsoft или Google, которые испугались конкуренции со стороны ЖЖ после слияния его с SixApart. Microsoft в том же Сиэтле (где стоят упавшие серверы ЖЖ) вообще базируется, а у Google там есть выносной офис.

Комментарии Фицпатрика на Slashdot.org о ситуации с отключением света в ЖЖ

(источник на Slashdot)

(примерное изложение по-русски)

They all came back up when the power came back.

But we intentionally don't have databases come back up on boot because if there was a blip, we want to do an integrity check first. (we run InnoDB, so it's ACID, but we're paranoid

...) We have clusters of 2 identical databases in separate cabinets, separate switches, separate Internap power feeds... so normally losing one database in each cluster doesn't matter: the other one gets used. But when we lose every single database, in all clusters, all at once... that's the time to be paranoid and double check stuff.

...

At this point all my whiteboards are full of boxes of each database cluster, the machines in that cluster, which have passed their checksum tests. (innodb checksums each 16k page), which replayed their replay/undo logs, where in binlogs each was writing/reading/executing etc...

So lots of waiting now on the checksum validators. I don't want to put a machine back in and find out in a week there was a database page that was corrupt because the battery-backed write-back cache on the RAID card didn't work as advertised. (which happens on about 95% of RAID cards, in my experience, because they're mostly crap, even the most expensive ones...)

Also whenever there's any doubt about something's integrity, we backup or snapshot the potentially corrupt version before operating on it. That operation can take time too.

It's going to be a fun night.

upd: новости на /powerloss/:

Update #4: 9:12 am: We're back at it. We'll have the site up soon in some sort of crippled state while the clusters with the oldest backups continue to catch up.

Вкратце это означает, что совсем скоро всё будет хорошо, надо только ещё немного подождать.

Зарегистрировался

здесь. Чтоб было.