Dmitry Dovidenko’s Blog

Alpha Red Goes Chapter 7

December 25, 2008 – 10:15 pm
Unfortunately Alpha Red could not be saved and is in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy as we speak. Game over :-(. Power is off and other utilities are being taken off line. This means liquidation. Check out the attached bandwidth graph photo. Currently AcroNOC Inc (http://acronoc.com) is offering services to all Alpha Red clients. Our corporation was founded by the top Alpha Red employees, Mack McBride,  Robert Singleton, Austin Naremore, Geoffrey Stephens, Daniel Stewart, Sean Kirn, Robin Holec and yours truly Dmitry Dovidenko. We have our own data center space, CogentCo bandwidth and we can move Alpha Red customers to our facility as we are working directly with the Chapter 7 trustee Douglas Brickley of LECG. This will prevent any data loss for AR customers left in the dark as well as provide the fastest solution for getting back online. Please contact support@acronoc.com or sales@acronoc.com to get moved up to our space ...

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Camaro Fixed

December 7, 2008 – 6:02 pm
Well my Camaro has been fixed. As reported earlier I wrecked my 99 Camaro on Highway 59 with front end damage. Here it is fixed by Aliance Auto Center in Houston, TX:

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Wrecked My Camaro

November 26, 2008 – 12:48 pm
About a week ago I managed to wreck my beloved 1999 Chevrolet Camaro t-tops coupe. After getting cut off on Highway 59 in 3PM traffic my car started fishtailing from having avoided the initial accident. Due to heavy slow traffic I was unable to keep my foot on the gas to get out of the fishtail and ended up spinning out. I went from the 3rd lane (from the left) all the way to the 6th lane in an arch ending up backwards and hitting another car. The impact spun me around again and I was able to put the car on the side of the highway. Three and a half grand later my car is now repaired. I've attached photos of the damage and will take photos of the repaired car tomorrow.

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Glock 23 Target Practice

November 23, 2008 – 6:00 pm
I went shooting with my friend Sanjin today at American Shooting Centers here in Houston. We used his Glock 23 which fires a .40 S&W round. It cost us $68.90 for a box of 250 Remington brand rounds which we went through within about an hour. With range fees I figured out it cost us roughly $0.36 per round fired. I found Sanjin's Glock 23 to be a great gun. It was very accurate, had great trigger pull and was a lot of fun to shoot. Sanjin and I did pretty well. Attached to this post is a photograph of my target, Sanjin didn't keep his!

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Picasa Sucks

November 8, 2008 – 11:38 pm
Usually I like Google utilities and applications, but Picasa just plain pisses me off. I don't understand why Google seems to think that it HAS to scan your hard drive or at least a portion of it after installation. Why can't I cancel the initial scan? Why does Google assume I'm retarded and won't be able to drag in folders I want it to index!?!?!?

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THC IRC Bot (Perl)

October 17, 2008 – 11:31 am
This is a very old basic IRC bot I wrote at some point. I recently found it when a coworker wanted to learn about threads. It uses Perl and requires that Perl is built with threading support!

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Alpha Red Inc

October 14, 2008 – 5:37 am
I've not posted in a few weeks, because I've been so busy trying to cleanup the mess our CEO left us in! For those that are interested in the Washington vs. James Reed McCreary IV, Branch Software Inc,  Alpha Red Inc lawsuit take a lookat the full post! While we don't work for or represent Alpha Red Inc anymore we're still trying to fix things for customers hosting at our data centers so they can keep getting awesome cheap services!

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I don’t like Ike!

September 15, 2008 – 2:13 am
Well I take back having said that this storm will not be a problem. My apartment still does not have electricity and I've lived at the office for the last 3 days. Houston has lots of damage. WEDGE tower which houses DC1 and our offices (including mine) had wind damage and lost many windows, but none on our floors!

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Hurricane Ike

September 12, 2008 – 2:59 am
Hurricane Ike is about to make landfal on Texas. I'm currently located in Houston, Texas and everyone is so excited about Ike that grocery stores are out of... bananas! I'm going to be spending the weekend at the office if the hurricane does end up hitting hard. I'm not sure it will and I'll post as it progresses!

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R.I.P SAMSUNG Blackjack II

August 17, 2008 – 3:52 pm
It was eleven in the morning and I was leaving the local "24 hour fitness" after a good workout. I walked down the sweltering parking lot becoming increasingly thirsty. As I tried to open my water bottle I lost grip and the bottle went tumbling down. Being worked up from my exercise I instinctively tried to catch it before it hit the ground. As my sweaty hands fumbled with the bottle the unexpected happened.

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