Stuff that I've been asked about at different moments and that I put on the web so that others have an easy access to it.

Dotfiles

~/.emacs: Multilingual and multiplatform configuration file for the only true editor. ~/emacs/ catalog contains lots of goodies loaded up by the ~/.emacs file.
~/.gnus: A decent addition to the previous ~/.emacs file - the configuration file for the Gnus news/mail reader.
~/.bashrc: Bash resource file with a fixed-width $PWD in $PS1 and some other goodies.
~/.inputrc: The options for libreadline, a command-line manipulation library used by Bash and many other programs.
~/.bash_profile: Environment variables and some basic bash setup.
~/.Xresources: Xresources for cyrillic iso-8859-5 setup, translucent aterms, Netscape customization, etc.
~/intlbyru: US International/Belarusian/Rmussian keyboard layour for XFree86 4+ Set it with, e.g.
$ setxkbmap -v ~/intlbyru -geometry "pc(pc105)" \ -symbols "en_US(pc105)+rubyus_intl+group(alt_shift_toggle)"
~/.vimrc: Configuration file for the VIM editor.
~/.ctwmrc: Configuration file for the CTWM window manager along with some custom pixmaps and a screenshot.

Writings

Debian 4.0 (Etch) on a Dell 6400 (E1505) notebook: Personal experience of a (nearly) painless linux install on a Dell E1505
Natural Language algorithms in industrial applications, [1998]. (in Russian): Description of state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing Technologies. Topics concerned include POS tagging, Text Parsing, Automatic Text Summarization.
Сэмюэл Бекетт, В ожидании Годо: Russian translation of "Waiting for Godot", optimized for maximum rythmic similarity with the original.
Buying a computer mouse in Minsk: Short story about the adventure of buying a computer mouse in Minsk, Belarus.
Occasional XSLT for Experienced Software Developers: Although using XSLT to process XML is increasingly common, most developers still use it only occasionally—and often treat it as just another procedural language. But that's not the best way to use XSLT. Learn how to simplify and improve your XSLT processing using event-driven and declarative techniques.

Moderation Log: A tiny Drupal module to make the moderation a little more transparent to the users
phpbb2drupal: phpbb2 to drupal conversion script and its plain-text version. The same script is available in drupal cvs.
Debian package for ncmpc: ncmpc_0.11.0-1_i386.deb, ncmpc_0.11.0.orig.tar.gz, ncmpc_0.11.0-1.diff.gz.
kirlat: A tiny Win32 program that resides in tray and converts between Belarusian lacinka script, cyrillic writing and transliteration.

mikhailian@altern.org: If you want to drop me a line, you may consider using my public key. For those that use public key encription on a day-to-day basis, I recommend publishing their keys on http://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net.

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