Today was all about remembering something from past. We used to rest in Ukrainka for several years ago, and today we’re riding our bike’s to Ukrainka again. Weather was strange a sort, so we’re both got burnt and got wet. Nevertheless, the things go worse and worse — rapid growth of car amount in Kyiv destroyed last “white areas” of maps. Places, where we could definitely be lonely with nature two years ago, now turns in car parking on weekends. Sad. The one and only way is building own country house. I’m in process.

It’s simple — working on Google AJAX API, in browser. I suppose soon we could see true #/bin/goosh console for GNU )) Perfect thing, nothing to say.

Via Atoma pieraksti.

We’ve seen all the Ukraine and Azov sea from 10km, but it became cloudy while approaching Caucasus Range. Nevertheless, we’re given a chance to see true mountains.

Just after not so soft landing we’ve notced our Mriya extra-large aircraft in Tbilisi airport (it could be seen in the background). Tbilisi met us with brand new airport, “Beeline” in Georgian, pretty warm weather and happy Giga.

The hotel (Spa, or Partizan) — mmm.. hotel? I suppose it was the greatest shock for us in Tbilisi. We’ve payed 120 USD for 2 nights, but. The cockroaches!!11 These palm-sized creatures made us consolidated in one room with bottle of cognac. Pfff… The thriller.

And in the morning, begun the first BarCamp Caucasus. We arrived to Georgian National Museum and saw lots of familiar faces — Latvia, Georgia, Kazakhstan..

…happy to meet us!

Organizers were cleaning open-air auditoriums from dust…

Participants were scheduling their presentations…

Soon Giga, Irene and Aja opened the event… And internet started going on.

Lots of attendees…

Kyrgyzstan & Ukraine

Lots of presentations…

… and lots of discussions.

When the first day ended we made a short uphill in the museum territory and made some shots:

We spent the evening of the first day in old downtown (that’s because we had found coffee there only).

Suddenly the weather became rainy, and we found shelter in a cozy Georgian cafe, with bottle of Alazan Valley white vine. That was great )

Next photos coming soon, so you’d better got the RSS.

Go to your home folder (/home/yourname/), and make file .fonts.conf (be carefult, it is dot in the beginning). If you’re using console it should look like following:

cd ~/
touch .fonts.conf

This goes to your home folder and creates desired file. Next, open this file with gedit or nano or vi or any editor you like:

nano ~/.fonts.conf

And put there next text:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM “fonts.dtd”>
<fontconfig>
<match target=”font”>
<edit name=”rgba” mode=”assign”>
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target=”font”>
<edit name=”rgba” mode=”assign”>
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
<edit name=”hinting” mode=”assign”>
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name=”hintstyle” mode=”assign”>
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

… and restart your Last.fm or Skype or whatever you like! Should be great. See the screenshots — first showin my default Skype installation, and second — after apllying .fonts.conf.

Via Ubuntu Forums.

BarCamp Caucasus has finished. Lots of new emotions, and new experience — open-air format made it not usual as not usual can be. Nevertheless, BarCamp Caucasus was great. Thanks to organization team — Misho & Giga.

Now we are in Tbilisian cafe on Kura bank, having latte and using wifi. We have 4-5 hours before plane, so going to make some shots of ancient and modern Tbilisi.

P.S. Photos from BarCamp coming soon… You’d better catch the RSS.

BarCamp staff promises WiFi coverage, so I will try share fresh photos and unconference openions. Tomorrow we (with Woofer) take off from Kyiv, and on Monday evening land back. Wish us happy two 2,5h flights )

So, the question is “How??”. That’s all because of VirtualBox’s (completely GNU virtual machine) feature, that can show guest machine windows on host machine desktop. Easy, heh. Great idea. But we still want to benchmark Adobe Creative Studio 3 on that box :)

I think it should be great to visit at 8th March one of old well-known mountains…