Category Archives: Misc

Feedbacks you didn’t expect

Posted on 06.09.2022 by mezzantrop

Occasionally answering tech questions I sometimes get funny, absurd, obvious, not related or even wrong 3-rd party follow-ups. Here will be a collection of them. If you faced something similar, leave it in a comment, please 🙂

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Бросаю Хабр

Posted on 02.03.2022 by mezzantrop

Что-то Хабр мне совсем разонравился, в особенности предложения от их контент-студии. Решил эвакуироваться, а аккаунт удалить. Не удивляйтесь, пожалуйста, если лента вдруг совсем не в тему, вынесет вам парочку моих старых заметок: эту и вот, ту. UPD: удалить, похоже, ничего … Continue reading →

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How to add/edit a userform in Excel on Mac?

Posted on 30.12.2020 by mezzantrop

Haha, surprise! There is no way to add or edit user forms on Mac since Excel 2011 🙂

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CentOS Linux becomes beta RHEL?

Posted on 12.12.2020 by mezzantrop

According to the latest schedule, CentOS Linux reaches its End-of-Life in December 2021: As it’s announced in the CentOS blog that “the future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream” which “tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release“, and its recommended: … Continue reading →

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My 2018 as a free software developer

Posted on 20.11.2018 by mezzantrop

The year is almost near the end and I’m feeling Christmas in the air already, now it’s time to recall what was done and count some results. So, the first half of the year I used GitHub as a platform to … Continue reading →

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Children often ask me what I do at work (as a storage systems administrator)

Posted on 08.07.2018 by mezzantrop

And here is the answer for them right in the The Amazing World of Gumball – one of the funniest cartoon ever! See the “hacking” moment in the Safety episode (S03E32) where Anais talks about storage administration: The transcript: Gumball: … Continue reading →

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A nice way to return string values from functions in Bash

Posted on 27.06.2018 by mezzantrop

What can be as trivial as returning a value from a function in a scripting language? For those who has ever dealt with Bash, the answer turns out to be not so obvious. First, there are multiple options to do … Continue reading →

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Quickly report alive IPv6 addresses on the network

Posted on 23.01.2018 by mezzantrop

While searching a robust solution to discover all alive hosts on the local IPv6 subnet, I have found the easiest way except, probably, ndp is to ping … no, not each of them, but the multicast address ff02::1 and then … Continue reading →

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Шифры Атбаш, Цезарь и Виженер в Гравити Фолз

Posted on 14.01.2018 by mezzantrop

На новый год Дед Мороз подарил сыну Дневник №3 неизвестного автора из Гравити Фолз. Папа теперь разгадывает коды и шифры. Загадок в книжке полно, пришлось на коленке написать коротенький скрипт для расшифровки кодов Атбаш, Цезарь и Виженер из Дневника номер 3 Гравити … Continue reading →

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Conway’s Game of Life for Excel

Posted on 26.04.2017 by mezzantrop

I always wanted to use MS Excel for a really, really useful project! You know, something like these amazing tools, which allow you to convert a picture into an array of cells on the Excel spreadsheet. So, don’t thinking much … Continue reading →

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