I realized that my RSS reader displayed full articles for some blogs and not for others. That made me investigate the matter on my blog.

I ran out of disk space on my work laptop recently. Again. It finally motivated me to find the root cause.

Cheating in multiplayer games has always been a thing that triggered me the most while playing them. During the time I was managing a game server network used by hundreds of players every day I learned some neat tricks to fight the cheaters back.

A month ago I needed to download a quite big package from the Internet Archive. Unfortunately their HTTP servers throttled the connections to ~300KB/s in case of the files I was interested in. Luckily, they also offer option to use BitTorrent protocol to transfer files.

I run Apache as my main web server. There’s rarely a need to modify anything but when there is, it’s usually quite simple. That’s mainly why I never bothered to switch to nginx. Over the course of last month I had to change two things, here’s a short summary.

Windows. Huh. I didn’t anticipate me writing about Windows here. Thankfully, it’s going to be a rant about drivers. I’ve got three short stories that all happened somewhere earlier this year. The first one chronologically is about one of the computers at work.