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Jama uue domeeninimede korraldusega

Kui kunagi sai merike.pri.ee domeen registreeritud, siis oli peamisteks põhjusteks teise taseme domeeni kättesaamatus eraisikule ja soodne (teisisõnu olematu) administratiivkulu võrreldes .com või .net domeeniga. Samuti ei viitsinud ma pikalt nime üle juurelda, eesnimi.pri.ee oli vaba ja täiesti loogiline valik.

Nüüd siis korraldatakse asi ümber ja rõhutatakse võimalust registreerida teise taseme domeen ka eraisikuna. Kõlab hästi, aga pole kasutatav lahendus. merike.ee on juba registreeritud ja pole mulle sellega enam kättesaadav, muukujulised nimemuudatused muudaksid nime juba oluliselt rohkem.

Loomulikult saaksin jätkata praeguse domeeni kasutamist. Selle juures on vähemalt kaks totakat aspekti. Esiteks olukord, kus kolmanda taseme domeeni eest küsitakse sama palju raha kui teise taseme domeeni eest. No ei ole kuskilt otsast loogiline. Domeeninime puhul on selle pikkus väga oluline näitaja mugavuse hindamisel ja kolmanda taseme domeeninimi on pikem. Teiseks tõsisasi, et hinnaklass on säärane, et peaksin nime eest maksma 307,50 (Zone hind), kuigi hetkel maksan majutuse eest samal perioodil 400 krooni. Nimeserveri teenuse pakkumisest tekkiv koormus ühe nime kohta on ikka kõvasti väiksem kui koormus samale nimele majutuse pakkumise eest, hind ei kajasta seda sugugi. Segane on minu jaoks hetkel see, kas pri.ee domeeni ümber registreerimisel tuleb välja vahetada ka majutaja või oleks võimalik ka ainult domeeninime registreerija vahetus ning jätkamine praeguse majutaja juures, kes hetkel veel EIS akrediteeritute hulgas ei ole. Majutaja välja vahetamisel kaasneks vähemalt Zone puhul oluline hinnatõus majutuskulude osas.

Olgu see uus kord korraldajate arvates kui innovaatiline tahes, aga hetkel tundub küll, et mul jääb patriotismist väheks ja tuleb välja mõelda .net, .info vms nimi, millele kolida. Kusjuures merike.net on kinni.

Mul ei ole vaja .ee tippdomeeni, mul ei ole vaja 99,9% uptime’i. Tahan, et nimi oleks suunatud ja majutaja poolne kvaliteet selline, et teenus on suuresti kättesaadav ja töötav. Ja ma ei taha selle eest ebaratsionaalselt palju maksta nagu praegu eeldatakse. Tegemist on siiski isikliku domeeniga, mis kasumit ei tooda ja vajalik oma mõtete väljendamiseks ja erinevateks veebitehnoloogiatega seotud katsetusteks.

Ühtlasi ei tahaks ma nime muuta, sest see lõhub ära praegusele aadressile suunavad juhuslikud lingid ja kasutajate järjehoidjad. Kui telefoninumbri muutmisel on võimalus kõik tuttavad läbi helistada ja neile uus number öelda ning numbri avalikku kataloogi lubamisega ka ülejäänud maailmale jätta võimalus kontakti leidmiseks, siis domeeninimega on paraku olukord keerulisem. Domeeni külastajad ei ole selle omanikule teada, s.t puudub võimalus edastada teavet aadressimuutusest neile, kes 6-kuulise üleminekuperioodi jooksul lehte ei külasta. See on inetu, aga paistab, et sunniviisiline.

Olen rahulolematu ja ei nõustu uue korra innovaatilisusega.

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Wow, thanks Google!

So I’m usually almost totally indifferent to sports. Today I was just wondering when is this World Cup going to start. So I lazily open Google, am typing “football south” which Google suggests to complete as “football south africa 2010” and hit enter. Results display a special first result giving away the start, two first matches (in local time!) and groups. That’s all I wanted to know, no need to open any of the results. Scarily close to mindreading though it’s obvious it’s not.

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Moment of sadness and coincidence

Channel 2 showed Zero Hour‘s episode of Estonia (ship, not country) today. Very sad to watch even if I was only attending first grade at that time and had, thankfully, no personal contact with this catastrophe.

That reminded me of a picture I have of the memorial in Stockholm. Before I went to look it up in my photo album, I did a Google image search. The first picture on results page was from mereblog.com, site I don’t think I’ve visited before. To my surprise one picture used there and the one found in Google search is from 7is7.com, web page of Otto, active Mozilla contributor from Estonia. Odd. Not the picture or the taker but that I arrived there doing a random search. Perhaps randomness hard to reach is not only an issue in computer science but also in life in general.

The picture itself is another story. After 11th grade I got to participate in an award trip to Sweden with other more-successful-than-average students. After having visited Vaasa museum I was walking around the place as I had some extra time. I didn’t know where the memorial was as nobody had told us it’s nearby so it caught me by surprise when I suddenly realised I had just walked into it (it’s three stone walls in a triangle-like shape). Didn’t have much time, but managed to shoot one picture still, text is completely unreadable though.

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Bad, bad Kubuntu

My Kubuntu occasionally finds it hard to hibernate. First I thought that the swap partition was too small and this was reported in system log too sometimes. But this is not always the case. It was happening in Karmic and continues to happen in Lucid that I installed week ago. This is mostly annoying only though. I should really try to find out the real cause.

As it didn’t hibernate again last night I went for shutdown. All seemed fine. My first boot this morning was to Kubuntu, check email, hibernate, done. The second boot was into Windows 7 because TTCN-3 tool I need for class only works in Windows. Still all good, working, applying Windows updates, reboot, shutdown.

And then I booted to Kubuntu again. Whole networking system was down. Right-clicking network manager reveals “Networking disabled”. iwl3945 driver does some tricks at times, so I unload and reload that driver. Nothing. Iwconfig. No interface. Ifconfig. Nothing except lo. Ok, so I have a laptop that does no networking at all and I have no idea what’s wrong. Sure, this is a beta, but first reboot after last updates worked fine.

This time booting with live version on USB. Short search on Google suggests that /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state might have NetworkingEnabled set to false. To my surprse this is exactly the case. Set to true, restart network manager and it’s all working again.

What I don’t understand is how the heck did it get set to false first place?

Oh, and does anybody know where screwdrivers like to hide? I had one around and can’t find it any more. If you’re Kadri then no, it’s not the one I borrowed from you, it’s the other one.