• Alex_Bogak

Personal info

Email: <djay AT SPAMFREE nana DOT co DOT il>

I am a Users Representative for a Gentoo Linux distribution. I can be reached at djay-il [at] gentoo-userreps [dot] org

Thing I care for

Sites I Try To Visit Frequently

• FreeBSD and other BSDs

• O'Reilly's OnLamp and recently This part

• Librenix

• Digg

• Say Moo

Sites to check out

• Haking Journal

• O3 Magazine

• 9Rules

• Writely Simple Document Editor

• Online Whiteboard Application

• Tweak Firefox

Blogs I read

I use Google Reader as my RSS reader (just because its the same everywhere I read it and synced)

• Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu Linux initiator and leader

• Joel Spolsky - Joel on Software

• Johnathan Schwartz - Sun CEO

• The Simple Dollar

• Lifehack

• Mine, and more of mine

Books I like

• Malcolm Gladwell:

  • "The Tipping Point"

Books I'd like to read

1. Malcolm Gladwell:

• Blink: The power of thinking without thinking

2. Cristopher Locke:

• The Cluetrain Manifesto

3. Ray Kurzweil:

• The Age of Intelligent Machines

• The Age of Spiritual Machines

• The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology

4. Seth Godin

• Survival Is Not Enough

• Unleashing The Ideavirus

5. Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

6. Thomas L. Friedman

• The Lexus And The Olive Tree

• The World Is Flat

• Any other book by this author, he seems pretty cool

7. Francis Bacon

• Novum Organum (1620)

Things I will hopefully buy soon

• PDA: one with integrated Bluetooth and WiFi (such as tx_buynow_20051011 or Dell Axim x51v)

• Laptop change, something Intel-based, might be a new apple, maybe not. Has to be light, thin, 14" and to have pretty good exterior design.
• PC speakers. I gotta have those, at last.

Things I recently bought (I should see the tendency of things from previous list to move here :) )

• Really decent mp3 player - a 5G iPod - been stolen since then; now replaced by 2G iPod nano

• Not too bad digital camera - a cool and pretty Sony CiberShot DSC-R1

Music I listen to

• FlyLeaf - FlyLeaf

• Default - One Thing Remains
• The Calling
• Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
• Disturbed
• Aveneged Sevenfold
• Metallica
• Lullacry

My new server

• Look at details Here

Windows install

• Look Here for list of programs.

  • You are really bored, aren't you (I looked) -- 192.168.1.236 2007-01-22 01:41:04

    Yes, I am, but this was (is) intended for my laptop install. I'm going to get a laptop at work and I want to keep install lean, clean and fast, but not compromising features I need.

Hackintosh

• Look here for details