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New russian school distro is a major cockup (it seems so...)

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Русский человек славится своим умением находить выход из самых трудных ситуаций, но еще более он славится своим умением находить туда вход.
Russian people are famous for their ability to find escape ways from the most difficult situations. They're even more famous for finding ways into the situations.

For those not speaking Russian -- the article in "Novosti" starts like this:
The free OS distributed in Russian schools doesn't work
Alt Linux version developed especially for and sent to all(?) russian schools in June cannot be installed on the PCs - says manufacturer in his statement. Blah, blah, technical error, blah, blah, the replacement install CDs will be sent...
It just happens. Nobody's perfect. But I'm already waiting for M$ "that-incompetent-linux-bunch-of-nerds" statement...
ВЕДОМОСТИ
Свободное ПО, разосланное в российские школы, оказалось неработоспособным

Дистрибутивы свободного программного обеспечения (СПО) «Линукс Мастер» и «Школьный сервер», разосланное в российские школы в начале июня, оказались непригодными для установки на компьютеры. Далее

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Greek History in 10 minutes

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Yet another 10 minutes of history...

Storm truckers

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Author: jlee5775

Marginal Hacks: setting EDITOR variable with fallback

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Assuming your preferred editor is nano (then joe, then emacs...)
export EDITOR=$(which nano ||
which joe ||
which emacs ||
which vim ||
which sam ||
which ed)


My configuration is much simpler ;-) :
export EDITOR=vim

Potsdam trip

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Some photos from our trip to Potsdam (Germany, near Berlin) in April.
Should post it few weeks ago, but it's first time I sit at the PC where the pics were stored.
Enjoy!
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