Veze.net - way to success

Veze net is true "success" story of internet providing business in Lazarevac, Serbia;

How hard this can be?

As you will see, with couple of good acquaintances in right places, not at all...

If you try "whois" command on Veze.net's server [server.veze.net], you will get:

server.veze.net:195.252.125.130

% This is the RIPE Whois query server #2.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server
% is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See
% http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html
% for more details.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html

% Note: This output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag

% Information related to '195.252.125.128 - 195.252.125.191'

inetnum: 195.252.125.128 - 195.252.125.191
netname: RGF
descr: Rudarsko Geolo.ki Fakultet
descr: Djusina 7
descr: Belgrade, Serbia
country: CS
admin-c: BI96-RIPE
tech-c: BI96-RIPE
rev-srv: ns.beotel.net
rev-srv: ns.beotel.yu
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: AS6700-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: Beotel ISP
address: Makenzijeva 56
address: 11000 Beograd
address: Serbia and Montenegro
address: http://www.beotel.net
remarks: trouble: Abuse: abuse@isp.beotel.net
remarks: trouble: Network: noc@isp.beotel.net
admin-c: DR47-RIPE
tech-c: DR47-RIPE
tech-c: GBT-RIPE
tech-c: IBT-RIPE
tech-c: NBT-RIPE
tech-c: SBT-RIPE
nic-hdl: BI96-RIPE
mnt-by: AS6700-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
abuse-mailbox: abuse@isp.beotel.net

% Information related to '195.252.96.0/19AS6700'

ro ute: 195.252.96.0/19
descr: BEOTELNET Belgrade, YU
origin: AS6700
mnt-by: AS6700-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

Source

With resources of university network you can save big money which otherwise will be spent on your backbone link :)

Dispute this fact guys from Veze net somehow manages to offer worst QoS [connection-wise] of all others ISP's in Lazarevac (which is strongest competition on earth); This is they real achievement :)

Keep up with your entertaining work boys /golfclap

Update:

Whois record for Veze is changed some time ago [Record last updated on 24-Feb-2007], but i didn't checked for this. Although, fact about "special relationship" between Veze and You-Know-Who still remains as you can see on [ES] post mentioned above.

Best wishes, Ma®e

I am online again, eventually

After 20 long days wasted in attempts to finish my geodesy assignment project, I went back.

I was pleasantly surprised when I checked Google analytics for visit statistics of this site so I will try to improve this blog as much as possible. Fact that 5-10 people per day visit this page is peculiar enough that I start to doubt in accuracy of Google's counter. (Though, maybe this is just bunch of geeks constantly refreshing page in web browser ;) )

Enough of this preamble, lets see some real stuffs.

PC Centar FTW

Before you start to brag with your All - In - Bells - And - Whistles - Brand - New PC ("Пентијум четворка" preferably) read this commercial published in SBB newsletter.


If you bought your box in PC Centar receive my deepest compassion.

At the other side if you like "гејмер" configuration you must be interested for Teleshop offers such as "DVD - How to loose 12345 pounds in 3 days" or "Buy Hollywood makeup collection for .99$" etc... Anyway, enjoy in your choice.

Russinovich's blog
...for those who care...

If you are interested in Windows internals Mark Russinovich's blog is place to visit.
His Vista security related article represent the cutting edge of security-vise techniques introduced in new Microsoft's operating system and it is a main reason for me to remember you to visit his blog.

• Main blog page

See you soon

I will AFK for a while...

Today I will go in Belgrade for 3-4 weeks due to faculty matters.

I intend to continue this blog as soon as I come back, so stay tuned :)

Goodbye and take care /hug /kiss /<3

My work on PE Info is over!

After more then week spent in never ending code writing today is written last line.


PE Info's final UI


Look of Crash Report Tool (small utility which provide assistance in cases of program failure)

I was created distribution packages and uploaded them on Rapidshare. You can download PE Info from links provided below:

• PE Info (executable only)

This package content PE Info.exe and Crash Report Tool. Download this if you wish only application files without source, etc. Recommended for most users.
Size - 363KB

• Program documentation

You can download documentations in XML format which contain in-depth statistics of project
Size - 41KB

• Runtime files

Download only if program didn't work (this runtime files usually coming with Windows XP SP1 and higher, so you don't need this archive in most cases). Anyway, inside you can find all runtime files used for this applications along with script for registering/unregistering...
Size - 303KB

• VB Project files

Source code. All project files collected after work was done and archived for smaller size. You can audit my code and post your opinion here. I will appreciate any comment.
Size - 1.25MB

• All files together

You can download all content mentioned above packed in one archive. Recommended if you wish access to entire project.
Size - 1.94MB

If you have any questions, comments etc you can post it here or send mail to me.

Regards

PE Info is almost finished

Just as title says, project is nearly done.

Few things like help content, crash reporting tool and some visual improvements is remained to be coded, though.
As soon as all work will finished I will upload whole project [over 4.000 lines of code :) ] to web for public access. I am using opportunity to encourage you to share some of your source code [e.g. snippets, some how-to projects etc] because then other people can audit your code and maybe give you some valuable advice.

Just for the record, I am not OSS freak or GPL zealot [like some people, khm...], actually I believe that proprietary software is way to go.


This is a (most likely) final look of PE Info. I hope that you like it :)

Best regards, Mare

ISP's mockery upon us

Take look at this column published in Svet Kompjutera for march 2007.

I couldn't agree more with his author Miodrag Kuzmanović in matters of ISP issues in Serbia.
While in civilized world users complains on his Gbps links chairman of Telekom Serbia in one of his speaks says [paraphrase]:

"Brzina od 768Kbps je sasvim dovoljna da omoguci uzivanje u svim sadrzajima koje internet nudi. Nase trziste nema poterebe za vecim brzinama. Vise vam moze biti potrebno jedino ako preko interneta gledate TV..."

Shamefully...

He forgot to mention QoS provided by ISP's which result with connection resets [which effectively interrupt any MMOG expirience], massive lag etc... Which remembered me; here is couple of screen shots captured during my World of Warcraft sessions:


Notice that red latency indicator in middle bottom of the screen [btw red means 600+ ms latency]


Here we have respond for my apologize to raid leader via in-game letter. Our raid attempted to kill Teremus the Devourer when I disconnected... Raid was wiped because I was main tank... Annoying, isn't it.

People I was played with used teamspeak, download movies, sharing his connection with other computers etc. during game sessions and still have 50-80 ms lag in game. I think that you get a picture...

Our pitiful government obviously didn't care, they saying "We will imprison general Mladich as soon as possible ... blah..blah..." Big deal, nobody cares except them.
How about xGbps fiber optic to every home instead of commercials for DS Mr.President. This is cost only 50.000 $/Km which is nothing for serious country...

Aaarrghh, i am really pissed off, sorry about this :)

Dim A As New Serbia.ISP()
Dim B As ISP

For Each B In A
/SPIT
Next

May God guide our path...

Importance of backup

Heh, all of us hate those boring daily backups. But backup can save our work in case of hardware failure or just accidentally deletion.

So I decide to write simple .CMD script in order to automate backup process. This script backup one or more target folders to compressed file Backup [dd.mmm.yyyy].rar on custom location (e.g. Backup [12.06.2002].rar).

Just download archive from link below, put all files from archive in one folder and customize script.

Open .cmd file in your text editor and replace values in brackets with your own paths as described in script comments. I also provided sample script which back up contents of your desktop to archive in root of C drive to show you how script should look like. My upload also contains cmdline utility rar.exe in case that you don't have winrar installed on your system.

• Download script package from Rapidshare

Best wishes, Mare