Author: Maksim Otstavnov

A new edition of The Debian Administrator’s Handbook by Raphaël Hertzog, Roland Mas—the third one counting only English editions, and the seventh if the first four French-only are included—has been issued by Freexian. Shortly after the first English edition, communal experience with the book has justified the the in its title, the book becoming both the most widely read introduction into Debian and the most used single handbook, leaving out the documentation itself, of course.

If your Evolution mail client—after upgrading to Debian Jessie (i. e. up to v. 3.12.9)—“loses” some messages received through IMAP, check its local Junk directory for a remote IMAP server, even if you cannot remember configuring local spam filtering. Mind that for whatever reason Evo does not indicate the number of messages in this directory.

HTTPS-Everywhere 3.5 seems to break Youtube clips visibility (in my case, in Debian 7-64/Iceweasel 28 context) last two to three days.

“Friendly interface” has become a term universally accepted. Nobody seems to ponder on the message of those words. But pondering over the phrase gives you the shivers: the programs though creatures of our mind seem close to conquering the world while definitely breaking loose of our control.

In about a month, on April 25, 2014, the next iteration of Functional Programming Principles read by Prof. Martin Odersky starts on Coursera. Regular college or university students contemplating participation should by all means follow their mentors’ advice. Mine is for those among seasoned and mature programmers, both professionals and amateurs, who have missed the opportunity to master functional thinking in their good time but are sharp enough to see their peers—who have had the chance—running circles around them intellectually.