Marian Marinov/HackMan

Finally I decided that it will be a good idea to keep all of my OpenSource contributions into git projects and also to put them online.
Until now I had only the Patches page.
And today while finalizing the MySQL Resource Agent for Heartbeat I have installed gitweb and I’ll try to add all of my contributions [...]

Finally I got the new video screen and we tested it yesterday. 2.4 meters is the optimal screen size for my projector and our living room.
You can watch from any angle, the picture is at least 4 times bigger then our 47′ TV. There are some problems now with the quality of the movies that [...]

I had to build a mail server for one client. So I decided to use postfix + dovecot as a combination for the setup.
After a week of usage, my client called and asked for per user quotas. Since the setup is with virtual users this required some changes. So here I’ll try to outline what [...]

Finally the books I ordered in the beginning of December have arrived

Advanced Programing in the Unix Environment
Unix Network Programing Volumes 1 and 2

I think that these books are the bibles of network programing and they should be a must read for any C developer.
I have also ordered these two:

Myths of Security
The Art of [...]

Just before Christmas, Bulgarian law makers decided that it is a very good idea to approve the changes in the Law for Electronic messages. What they approve was that they need surveillance. What they didn’t think was how they will have this surveillance! So what we will have is a big version of Big Brother [...]

Before Christmas I had ordered an Eposn EMP-TW700 projector for home. On 30th it finally came. So we watched one movie with it and my father managed to bring down the screen So after a second installation yesterday, now I finally have my own home theater… It looks good but during the day you [...]

Pfiuuu, today I finally finished my Exam generator. I added generating PDF files from the DB. Until now I was generating only txt support. Now I can generate new variants of a test whenever I want, just with one execution of the script. I also made a web version so I can generate variants of [...]

I’m going to FOSDEM 2010. This will be my first visit of the event but I’m sure I’ll like it.
I proposed 2 talks for the conference so it is also possible that I will also speak there

Yesterday I bout AzBox Premium HD Satellite receiver. The receiver is very nice, you can watch YouTube directly from it. You have a web browser, e-mail client and I can watch all of our movies directly from the storage. It has a HDD bay and WiFi. You can record shows from the TV to the [...]

If for some reason, anyone who is reading is unfortunate enough to have cPanel on some of his servers you have to know that /scripts/mysqlup doesn’t upgrade the mysql database to the new format offered by 5.0.X.
What this means is that, even if you have mysql 5.0.x running, you can not make use of stored [...]