My blog address changed

I have changed my blog address.

Now it is blog.vsl.name .

Just vsl.name will redirect you to the right address. So, it works too.

Old address will redirect you to the new one soon. All the links should work. If not, please, contact me.

Sideling Hill Road Cut by I-68 at Maryland

A week ago I was at the trip to Washington, D.C. to pick up a new passport. On my way there was a sounding Sideling Hill ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideling_Hill ), cut by two by the Interstate 68 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_68 ). I was impressed by the sightseeing and made a few photos:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5936997924084594865

Douglas SBD Dauntless @ Chicago Midway Airport

At Chicago Midway Airport I found a memorial, dedicated to Battle of Midway with Douglas SBD Dauntless as its central part. I was unable to stop myself making photo by photo! Enjoy!
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5926175772297845889

Photos from trip to Chicago, IL

And another bunch of traveler's photos. These are from my trip to Chicago, IL at 06--07 of September to participate in 2013 Midwest Theory GetTogether.
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5926168412083613617

BTW, Google+ joined few photos to make a sounding panoramas. I found it interesting.

Photos from a car trip to Washington, DC

Hi All,

Hope, this post find you well. At 24--25 of July I made an exciting car trip from Athens, OH to Washington, DC. It was my first long-range driving experience. Here are the photos I made during this trip:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5926161001947344897

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Photos from short walk at East Lansing & Lansing, MI @ 2013-05-17

Here are the photos from the short walk at East Lansing & Lansing, MI @ 2013-05-17:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5901763184930065105

Special thanks to Brandon and Stephanie Burke!

Few photos from the trip to East Lansing, MI @ 2013-05

Here are few photos from the visit to East Lansing, MI at May 2013:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5901760923903189537

Views around Athens, OH made @ 2013-05-04

These are some views around Athens, OH:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5901751425283860401

The photos were made during my bike trip @ 2013-05-04

Photos from the way College Station, TX to Athens, OH @ 2013-04-30

Hi all,

Here are some photos, which were made during the trip from College Station, TX to Athens, OH @ 2013-04-30:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5901737124914962129

Enjoy!

Switching between OpenJDK v.6 and v.7 in Debian 7 Wheezy

In Debian 7 Wheezy for the architecture amd64 (most of the modern 64-bit architectures) the default OpenJDK is OpenJDK v.6.

But what if you want OpenJDK v.7 (Java 7)?

Debian Wiki ( http://wiki.debian.org/Java ) already have the answer, what and how to do, but this answer mining should take you for a while...

Here is the howto.

First, open the terminal and
$ su -l

Now install the JDKs:
# aptitude install default-jdk default-jre openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk java-common

This will take you for a while.

At Debian 7 the default JDK/JRE version is managed by the 'alternatives' system. So, to list the available (installed) JDKs, type:
# update-java-alternatives -l
The output will be like this:
java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 1051 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

Now let's switch to Java 7:
# update-java-alternatives -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

That's all!

Please, check the Java version:
$ java -version
$ javac -version
In both cases, the versions should be like 1.7.*

Enjoy!

Way from Athens, OH to College Station, TX @ 2013-03-02

Hi all,

https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5890960614150781649 - Here are the photos, I made on the way from Athens, OH to College Station, TX at 02 of March this year.

Columbus, OH; 2013-03-02

Dallas/Ft.Worth. TX; 2013-03-02

It was a sounding jump from the winter to the spring in one day! :)

Installing Skype at Debian 7 'Wheezy' for AMD64 architecture

Hi all,

About a month ago Debian Community released the long-awaited Debian 7 'Wheezy':
http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504

It includes a lot of new features. The most notable, of course, is GNOME 3 user interface. It's amazing!

GNOME 3 Screenshot

Skype at Debian 7

Most of the user computers now are 64-bit machines (usually everything works fine with AMD64 version). But Skype provides binaries only for 32-bit architecture (i386). Fortunately, Milti-Arch support at Debian solves this problem!

Debian Wiki page about Skype ( http://wiki.debian.org/skype ) is written in a too complicated way. It took me a while to understand: what is connected to what?

To simplify Debian users' life, here is the

Step by step installation manual

Install Debian 7 'Wheezy' (I'm using AMD64 version). Straight forward process: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ . Nothing special.

After finishing installation, open Terminal (in GNOME 3: Activities -> Applications -> Terminal).

Log in as root:
$ su -l
If you disabled root login during the installation process, you may run $ sudo bash OR insert sudo in front of the following commands.

Now add the new architecture i386:
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# aptitude clean && aptitude update

Install libpulse:
# aptitude install libpulse0 libpulse0:i386

Then, download Skype:
# wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb

WARNING: Fork: Here this manual way diverges from presented one at Debian Wiki!

Install Skype dependencies:
# dpkg-deb --field skype-install.deb Depends
# aptitude install <every package from the dpkg-deb output, adding :i386 suffix>

Closing the finish line, install Skype itself:
# dpkg --install skype-install.deb

The last thing to do is to enable "[x] Check for update on startup" in the ‘Advanced’ tab of the options menu in Skype. In this case Skype will notify you about new versions.

That's all! :) Enjoy!

Photos I made during my visit to OU @ Athens, OH in February, 2013

Hi all,

Hope you are doing well.

https://plus.google.com/photos/114763874066147257538/albums/5890265569165269137
Here are the photos I made during my visit to Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH in February.

It was an awesome experience! Prof. Charlotte Elster compared Athens with small German towns. I never was at Germany, but expect to see something like this.

Just before couple of days before my arrival the temperature fell down to -16 Celsius. Fortunately, during February the lowest temperatures were about -9 C only.

Enjoy!
More photos are on the way.

I shall try it!!!111 :)

Another funny photo

This happens... Time to time... :)

Google Reader, RIP

Just finished reading the news from the feed of Google Reader. That's all.

Google Reader, RIP... Thanks for a good service!

Bye-bye, Google Reader! One more out...

One of my friends commented post "Bye-bye, Posterous!", delivering the news that Google Reader is on the last lap too:

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html?m=1

One more is out... That's sad. How shall I read the news now?...

By-bye, Posterous!

http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous

On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.

I used this service during about 2 years to easily publish my posts. That's sad, but they are closing down.

Bye-bye, Posterous!

:)

Another funny photo. :)