Guys, pls help me think of a catchy & trendy name for computer services shop.
Services we offer: Internet Rental / Photoprinting & Printing (Photocopying, colored printing, text printing) / Id lamination / Lamination / School Supplies / PVC ID making / Fax / Rush ID services / Photography / Computer Sales and Hardware-Software Installation / Network Troubleshooting
and hopefully, we will be able to offer Tarpaulin Printing / Tshirt Printing, soon!
Thanx much! xoxo
Quote from: katana on June 16, 2012, 11:01 AM
Guys, pls help me think of a catchy & trendy name for computer services shop.
Services we offer: Internet Rental / Photoprinting & Printing (Photocopying, colored printing, text printing) / Id lamination / Lamination / School Supplies / PVC ID making / Fax / Rush ID services / Photography / Computer Sales and Hardware-Software Installation / Network Troubleshooting
and hopefully, we will be able to offer Tarpaulin Printing / Tshirt Printing, soon!
Thanx much! xoxo
Is this your business, or are you a partner? I'm asking only because the name Katana Komputers & Internet Services crosses my mind. Under your logo you can put one-word descriptions of the services you offer. I guess the only thing I'm not sure of is if you'd have to write them both in English and Tagalog, or if English will do just fine.
BTW something I saw on the map, does Tagalog use the eñe (Spanish "Ñ")? I saw a city named with the ñ on it, and it occurred to me that maybe Tagalog inherited it from Spanish. Is this the case? I wasn't aware another language used it, although they DO use the sound but write it in letter combinations (e.g., "gn" in French and Italian, "hn" in Portuguese).
I really would love to have a visit to your shop ;D
Quote from: BLADESHARK on June 17, 2012, 08:13 AM
I really would love to have a visit to your shop ;D
I totally agree! In fact, I'd love to meet many of you guys also.
Maybe my suggestion for the name of Katana's business is a little too long. Maybe Katana's Komputer Services is better. I strongly believe the name "Katana" should be retained. Nickname or not, it sound very nice and I just like it.
Hello Katana,
What about Computech?
Wish you good luck ;)
I liked both the names Computech & Katana's Komputer Services :)
Quote from: humbert on June 17, 2012, 06:27 AM
Is this your business, or are you a partner? I'm asking only because the name Katana Komputers & Internet Services crosses my mind. Under your logo you can put one-word descriptions of the services you offer. I guess the only thing I'm not sure of is if you'd have to write them both in English and Tagalog, or if English will do just fine.
I'm the industrial partner (I'm industrious LOL)... I
love your suggestion! My business partner is in Japan, she'll probably connect to the name since it is a Japanese word. I'll run the idea with her...Thanx! We'll be using English, most people here understand the language even though only a few are fluent in it. The new education curriculum emphasizes the use of native dialect but English is still very much incorporated in the system.
Quote
BTW something I saw on the map, does Tagalog use the eñe (Spanish "Ñ")? I saw a city named with the ñ on it, and it occurred to me that maybe Tagalog inherited it from Spanish. Is this the case? I wasn't aware another language used it, although they DO use the sound but write it in letter combinations (e.g., "gn" in French and Italian, "hn" in Portuguese).
Philippines was colonized by the Spaniards when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovered an island which is part of the archipelago in the 1500s. The name actually is derived from King Philip II of Spain. There were already inhabitants here way before they arrived and gave the name to my country but since they were the ones who had a record of that time, sometimes it almost seems that our history started only then.
Anyway, their 300+ years of rule left a strong cultural influence (aside from the smattering of meztizos). We "borrowed" some of their words like
niño, that's why
ñ is part of our alphabet.
Hope I didn't bore you with my history lecture. :D
Quote from: BLADESHARK on June 17, 2012, 08:13 AM
I really would love to have a visit to your shop ;D
Maybe I'll be able to post a picture of it once we're up & going... :-X
Quote from: Maher on June 19, 2012, 09:16 PM
Hello Katana,
What about Computech?
Wish you good luck ;)
That was actually my first choice. Unfortunately, I saw the same name when I went to Cebu... :(
Quote from: katana on June 24, 2012, 08:30 AM
What about Computech?
Wish you good luck ;)
That was actually my first choice. Unfortunately, I saw the same name when I went to Cebu... :(
What was the final decision on the name?
haven't decided on any, yet... suggestions ranged from cool to cheesy. ???
My new suggestions:
Compute 'r' Us
Come puter with us
Computer Emporium
Xtreme Technologies!!!
Computer Parts 4 you
Great Hardware Zoo
Custom Compturer Company
Microhard ware
Tazewell Techworks Ltd.
Electric Evolution
Supreme Systems, Inc.
Choice Computer Technologies
Tennetec Computers
Elite Systems
Fantastech
Here are some silly ones: "Press Any Key," "Big Beige Cupholders, Ltd." "Plug it in!" "BSOD" "Geeks United"
Compu-X
"Overclocked Computer Systems" sales upgrade repair networking
The PC Shack
CompMEXICO or USA
Overclockers, Inc. - (Are you still waiting on your computer? Let us Overclock it for you!)
Cyberspacers - (We live in the computer world so you don't have to).
RAID-0 - (Combining computer know how with the right system for you and making you twice as productive)
TCCE
the crazy computer experience
TACOS
TOTALLY AFFORDABLE COMPUTER OPERATION SERVICES :D
GEEC
GURU OF EXCELLENT ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
Computer Junction
Ctrl R for Repair
Hardwarewizard
ComputerGarage
Repubic of Computer Repair
Sys-sol ( System Solutions)
Repair-IT-4u
Fatherboard ( funny)
Computer E-ssentials
TechMonkies "we don't byte"
Our bits byte
byte my bits
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Hey everybody. :)
What about Tech Serve ?
I'm not good in this.
Wish you the best. :)
Those were some fun names, Bladeshark! 8)
Thank you for adding your suggestion, Ahmad. It's been duly noted. ;D
Find a name for business is very difficult, but important. ("If you give the yacht a good name, it will do well" ;D)
How about
Katana IT Support Service
K.I.S.S. for short. ;D
Like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but much more feminine. ;)
With a proper sign and advertizing this can be very effective. On the one hand, many female customers don`t call to "SUPER-DUPER DUAL CORE DIM DRAM BRAM SATA RAID ELECTONIC COMPONENTS GEEKS" - they will be feared only it name. On the other hand, computer geeks will go to the "K.I.S.S.", if it will have interesting poster (remember the CG girl on ATI videocard boxes).
Quote from: Daniil on July 06, 2012, 01:21 PM
How about
Katana IT Support Service
K.I.S.S. for short. ;D
Like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but much more feminine. ;)
That's splendid! It's the best suggestion yet. I hope Katana logs in soon to see what she thinks.
BTW Daniil, you write English very well. Did you learn it in school in St Petersburg or did you live for a while in an English speaking country?
Quote from: humbert on July 10, 2012, 02:07 AM
BTW Daniil, you write English very well. Did you learn it in school in St Petersburg or did you live for a while in an English speaking country?
"Write well", but not "speak well", dear
humbert. :) English language pronunciation has very many small features which are difficult for non-English-speaking.
Yes, I learned English at school, but they don't teached us well. It sounds like a joke, but I learned English mostly by computer games. :D It begun in 2001, when I bought "Operation Flashpoint". It was translated to russian, but so bad and crazy, that I "spit farther than seen". So I take its stringtables, take stringtables from english demoversion, and by hands, string by string, repaired it. After that I always tried to find an original, english-speaking distributives of computer games, because I didn't belived our
"mutators" "translators". :) After OFp there was Fallout 1, 2, later 3, Hitmans, and many other... After this - M$ TechNet and Linux man-s. And I learned. 8)
But even now, here on forum, I sometimes go to Google Translator, because don't know some english words. For example, thought a long time before typed "pronunciation" in this message - didn't knew, how to translate russian word "proiznoshenie".
Quote from: Daniil on July 10, 2012, 08:16 AM
"Write well", but not "speak well", dear humbert. :) English language pronunciation has very many small features which are difficult for non-English-speaking.
Yes, I learned English at school, but they don't teached us well. It sounds like a joke, but I learned English mostly by computer games. :D It begun in 2001, when I bought "Operation Flashpoint".
First of all, this business of small, hard-to-pronounce features exists every time someone tries to learn a foreign language and is by no means limited to English. When I used to travel on business I went to Thailand, and to the Thais my name was simply unpronouncable. Even in Portuguese which is very close to my native Spanish, there are several words and phrases that for me are difficult to grab and impossible to pronounce. I could go on and on an on. Indeed, the only way to truly speak and understand a language correctly is to learn it as a child (my case with English).
Speaking of English, despite what you told me I still believe yours is great. I only wish I could read and write Russian half as well as you do in English! By the way, may I make a suggestion? When you write something in Russian, please use the Cyrillic alphabet, then when you write the translation, write something like "pronounced...." with that same word in Latin characters. This gives me at least a small opportunity to learn something about the Cyrillic alphabet, which has long been a mystery to me. I guess I just hate the fact that, unlike many of you, I have to live and die by the Latin alphabet, which is all I can read or write.
OK, humbert, I'll do as you ask. But must to warn you, that you may have problems in encoding of Cyrillic symbols on your PC, on some OS there is no preinstalled russian codepages.
We run far away from thread subject, let's wait till lady will come back to forum and check offered business names. :D
Quote from: Daniil on July 11, 2012, 09:25 AM
OK, humbert, I'll do as you ask. But must to warn you, that you may have problems in encoding of Cyrillic symbols on your PC, on some OS there is no preinstalled russian codepages.
I wonder if you could answer a question for me. I noticed any character that can be copied and pasted from Windows character map can easily be seen on the forum. I've seen the Chief type in arabic and, although I can't read it, it's obviously done correctly. My question concern typing the characters in using a Latin keyboard. Some can be looked up in the Unicode map, it's number converted to decimal and typed as Alt-xxxx - but for some reason some can't. For example, ñ is U=F1 (dec 241), so type Alt-0241 and it works. However, ā is 101h or 257d, but with that one nothing happens. I just noticed that if you go higher than 255d (FFh) it doesn't work. In any event, try the Cyrillic letters and let's see.
Quote from: Daniil on July 11, 2012, 09:25 AM
We run far away from thread subject, let's wait till lady will come back to forum and check offered business names. :D
Katana's a busy lady, but she will be back sooner or later.
Quote from: humbert on July 13, 2012, 06:33 AM
I wonder if you could answer a question for me. I noticed any character that can be copied and pasted from Windows character map can easily be seen on the forum. I've seen the Chief type in arabic and, although I can't read it, it's obviously done correctly. My question concern typing the characters in using a Latin keyboard. Some can be looked up in the Unicode map, it's number converted to decimal and typed as Alt-xxxx - but for some reason some can't. For example, ñ is U=F1 (dec 241), so type Alt-0241 and it works. However, ā is 101h or 257d, but with that one nothing happens. I just noticed that if you go higher than 255d (FFh) it doesn't work. In any event, try the Cyrillic letters and let's see.
Wow, never thought about this. Here we have keyboard with two languages, with russian chars and english chars. QWERTY after Alt+Shift is ЙЦУКЕН. To use this codepage, we installs Russian codepage when Windows setting up. Also we install russian codepage for non-unicode programms in "Regional and Language settings" (It's Windows-1251, as I remember). So question of using Alt+xxx-combos never rised.
Anyway, this forum engine uses Unicode so displaying non-latin symbols will not be a problem.
To your question - I think, if you want to use non-Latin symbols on Latin-only keyboard, forget about Alt-combos. You will tire to type this numbers. Maybe you should use sort of on-screen keyboard?
Quote from: humbert on July 13, 2012, 06:33 AM
Katana's a busy lady, but she will be back sooner or later.
Yes. It will be interesting to talk with her.
Quote from: Daniil on July 13, 2012, 10:58 AM
Wow, never thought about this. Here we have keyboard with two languages, with russian chars and english chars. QWERTY after Alt+Shift is ЙЦУКЕН. To use this codepage, we installs Russian codepage when Windows setting up. Also we install russian codepage for non-unicode programms in "Regional and Language settings" (It's Windows-1251, as I remember). So question of using Alt+xxx-combos never rised.
Anyway, this forum engine uses Unicode so displaying non-latin symbols will not be a problem.
To your question - I think, if you want to use non-Latin symbols on Latin-only keyboard, forget about Alt-combos. You will tire to type this numbers. Maybe you should use sort of on-screen keyboard?
I too can easily add Russian (or anything) to my languages and change them with Alt-LeftShift (as I've done with Spanish). The problem is that in order to type very few characters, there's simply no justification for adding another language. Every now and then when I need a high character, I use the Alt-keypad combination or, if higher than FF(h) go the hard way and use Windows character set. This is a real pain because you have to look the character up then copy and paste it. Naturally when it's several characters it becomes a real pain. What I'd like to know is if there's some way to type in characters higher than FF(h).
As for the on-screen keyboard, mine only shows the standard English keyboard with nothing 128(d) and higher. If you know a way to change its alphabet, I'm listening :).
Quote from: Daniil on July 06, 2012, 01:21 PM
"If you give the yacht a good name, it will do well" ;D)
Yes. I believe in that, too! Sometimes, it helps attract customers to do business with you which they wouldn't do if at, one glance, all they see is a signboard with an unfortunate name. ::)
QuoteHow about
Katana IT Support Service
K.I.S.S. for short. ;D
This is a really cool one, Daniil! It sure will attract attention... :D Thanx!
@katana
Glad to give you an idea. :)
Yes, a "brand name" in business is very important. It must be attractive, especially if you works in services sphere. Sometimes, as I heared, attractiveness can be achived by using short and strange or "hard to explain" names. For example, if you using a well-sounding but difficulty explaining abbreviation.
You know, it is a kind of psychologic trick. Humans understands words "by habit". In a brains there is many stable word concatenations. (Don't know, is the "concatenation" the correct word? In Russian I mean "связка" (svyazska), it means "knot" or "bundle" - bundle of words, some words, which very often following one another). So, if you can find a right word concatenation closely by meaning to your business type, peoples will subconsciously find your buisness and became you customers - just because you have a correct psychological signal to them.
An other way is to use unexplaining names. With correct advertising you can create new stable concatenation and peoples will remember your brand very well. For example - "MMM", the russian financial pyramid of early 90-th. Even now noone can explain what means "MMM". But there was crazy agiotage around it.
Quote from: humbert on July 15, 2012, 07:04 AM
I too can easily add Russian (or anything) to my languages and change them with Alt-LeftShift (as I've done with Spanish). The problem is that in order to type very few characters, there's simply no justification for adding another language. Every now and then when I need a high character, I use the Alt-keypad combination or, if higher than FF(h) go the hard way and use Windows character set. This is a real pain because you have to look the character up then copy and paste it. Naturally when it's several characters it becomes a real pain. What I'd like to know is if there's some way to type in characters higher than FF(h).
As for the on-screen keyboard, mine only shows the standard English keyboard with nothing 128(d) and higher. If you know a way to change its alphabet, I'm listening :).
Hm. Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift not helps? As I remember, after Alt+Shift in Windows XP vk changed language. If no, maybe you can try to use the third party keyboards? For example, from here: On_Screen_Keyboard_Magic (http://search.softlandmark.com/On_Screen_Keyboard_Magic.html)
Quote from: Daniil on July 19, 2012, 07:30 PM
Hm. Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift not helps? As I remember, after Alt+Shift in Windows XP vk changed language. If no, maybe you can try to use the third party keyboards? For example, from here: On_Screen_Keyboard_Magic (http://search.softlandmark.com/On_Screen_Keyboard_Magic.html)
Did you say Ctrl-Shift Home? I'm not familiar with that combination. I do know that Alt-LeftShift will toggle the keyboards you have installed on your system. In my case I have English as default and Spanish as secondary. If I need to type something in SP, I simply do Alt-LeftShift and toggle back and forth as needed - the only thing is to memorize the keyboard position of those characters that don't exist in English. Surely you have a similar system on your keyboard.
As you correctly explained, the site supports unicode which is why all characters can be seen. I'm noticing there are numerous character sets and that those that are typeable using the Alt-0xxx combination seem to be supported just by Windows (it won't work in Linux). I looked at the chart I downloaded and noticed this. For example, the euro (€) can be typed using Alt-0128, but it's unicode number is 20AC(h). This is truly confusing.
As for the on-screen keyboards, the one you pointed out has no non-latin characters on it, and seem to be targeted at those people who don't have full use of their hands for typing and can barely use a mouse. I remember back in the days before XP, I used a (I can't remember the name) which had a small keyboard on the screen, but the great thing about it was that it supported a bunch of languages and with a single click you could momentarily change to [for example] a Russian keyboard. The best thing was that on the small window it showed exactly where the characters were, so no hunting around. Sadly it didn't support XP and I never saw anything like it again. :(
Before I forget, I think you said you have a computer business in St Petersburg. What kind of products or services do you provide your customers? And one more thing - were you born in St Petersburg, or in Leningrad?? What does your birth certificate say as far as place of birth?
Quote from: Daniil on July 19, 2012, 07:17 PM
@katana
Glad to give you an idea. :)
Yes, a "brand name" in business is very important. It must be attractive, especially if you works in services sphere. Sometimes, as I heared, attractiveness can be achived by using short and strange or "hard to explain" names. For example, if you using a well-sounding but difficulty explaining abbreviation.
You know, it is a kind of psychologic trick. Humans understands words "by habit". In a brains there is many stable word concatenations. (Don't know, is the "concatenation" the correct word? In Russian I mean "связка" (svyazska), it means "knot" or "bundle" - bundle of words, some words, which very often following one another). So, if you can find a right word concatenation closely by meaning to your business type, peoples will subconsciously find your buisness and became you customers - just because you have a correct psychological signal to them.
An other way is to use unexplaining names. With correct advertising you can create new stable concatenation and peoples will remember your brand very well. For example - "MMM", the russian financial pyramid of early 90-th. Even now noone can explain what means "MMM". But there was crazy agiotage around it.
Thank you! I find I'm learning a lot in advertising from you. As a regular person, attractive advertising is what pulls me first to try a certain brand & if it is of quality condition or the service offered is good, then I become a patron.
связка or svyazska. If it's a bundle of words you might mean
compound word but if it has a psychological signal to people then I think
connotation is the right word for it... ;) And you're right! If people associates in an emotional or cultural level with a brand's name in a positive way, they will probably flock to investigate what it's all about and it can only be good for business, right?
You've given me brilliant ideas, buddy! If only I know how to draw. I'd make a logo of your suggested name myself!
Quote from: katana on July 20, 2012, 10:26 AM
Thank you! I find I'm learning a lot in advertising from you. As a regular person, attractive advertising is what pulls me first to try a certain brand & if it is of quality condition or the service offered is good, then I become a patron.
связка or svyazska. If it's a bundle of words you might mean compound word but if it has a psychological signal to people then I think connotation is the right word for it... ;) And you're right! If people associates in an emotional or cultural level with a brand's name in a positive way, they will probably flock to investigate what it's all about and it can only be good for business, right?
You've given me brilliant ideas, buddy! If only I know how to draw. I'd make a logo of your suggested name myself!
Hm-hm-hm... As I think, most accurate translating may be "a connotation of sequence of words". Well, if the word sequence "Wine and bed, and candles, and silk underwear, and big men's arms", then connotation (implication, as Google Translator suggests) in brain will be "sex sex sex!!!". Against "Difficult, high frequency, 'NIX, memory, ssh, protocols, firewall" ==> "Server". Well, you understand me. The mission of good brand name is to hit in connotation like i showed before, or make a new connotation. Like "ASUS Technologies Inc." <== "wide range of motherboards, good videocards, interesting cooling systems, mainstream parts good for overclock..."
Try to use Google SketchUp. Year ago it helped me to create interesting collage for advertising booklet.
Update@humbert
No, "Hm" - means that I'm surprised. :)
Well, buddy... As I can understand, you want have an opportunity (against, don't know is that right word in this context?) to type an a Cyrillic symbols on your PC?
I don't know exactly, how to help you, maybe in you version of Windows is some regional restrictions
But in my Win7 default OnScreen Keyb have both languages and both symbol packs. So, maybe you should set up your Windows like you are in Russia? For this:
1) download Rus Language pack by WinUpdate
2) You will have in your system 3 languages, English, Spain, and Russian.
3) After restart, set up settings for language change in ControlPanel=>Region And Language
Then, when you starts OnScreenKeyboard, you will have keyboard with Cyrillic symbols.
Update:Oh damn! ??? It may be difficult with OnScreenKB... On windows desktop it correctly changing locale... But in browser, or even in Word it don't want to change it!... :o ???
Quote from: Daniil on July 20, 2012, 01:19 PM
Hm-hm-hm... As I think, most accurate translating may be "a connotation of sequence of words". Well, if the word sequence "Wine and bed, and candles, and silk underwear, and big men's arms", then connotation (implication, as Google Translator suggests) in brain will be "sex sex sex!!!".
LOL I say that's a good analogy, my friend! :D But I get what you mean, it's like when you think of a certain brand, you instantly connect it with it's products or services. Yeah, it really works! This has been very educational. Thanx!
Quote from: humbert on July 20, 2012, 05:30 AM
Before I forget, I think you said you have a computer business in St Petersburg. What kind of products or services do you provide your customers? And one more thing - were you born in St Petersburg, or in Leningrad?? What does your birth certificate say as far as place of birth?
I provide computer reparing, consulting in selecting hardware parts, creating an specific, non standart PCs (like an WebTV PC, placing at kitchen embedded into a door of cupboard, or gaming PCs with modded cases), creating SOHO networks (wired, and WiFi as well) and so on.
Yes, your suspicions are correct. :) Before 1992 St.Petersburg was Leningrad, and my place of birth in documents is Leningrad. :) There is a story about "place of birth" entry - in fact I was born in Ismail, at Ukraine (well, at that time Ukraine Republic of USSR). My parents are from St.Petersburg, but mother went to Ukraine (to relatives) at that time, because, as she said, at Ukraine is better climate for kids. Well, maybe she was right, but that's not an object. The main thing is that in documents a birth place was writed as "Leningrad". Because in Soviet Union if you are not born in Leningrad, you was not allow to live here except if you came there to study, or if you married with someone from Leningrad, or was sent by Party to work in Leningrad. ;D
Today (thanks God) it is not like this, but parts of that system stay as it was. You can go to any city of the country, but you must register there if you want to work. Registration procedure is long and difficult, and it is very annoying.
And where are you from, Humbert? :) As I can understand from forum topics, you are from Cuba (Yeah, Vivan los Che! Vivan los Isle of Revolution!) ;)
Quote from: Daniil on July 20, 2012, 02:20 PM
I provide computer reparing, consulting in selecting hardware parts, creating an specific, non standart PCs (like an WebTV PC, placing at kitchen embedded into a door of cupboard, or gaming PCs with modded cases), creating SOHO networks (wired, and WiFi as well) and so on.
Very interesting! You're a real geek then. Did you learn everything you know on your own or did you go to a school? BTW, let me ask you something - are you familiar with Linux or know anyone who is?
Quote from: Daniil on July 20, 2012, 02:20 PM
Yes, your suspicions are correct. :) Before 1992 St.Petersburg was Leningrad, and my place of birth in documents is Leningrad. :) There is a story about "place of birth" entry - in fact I was born in Ismail, at Ukraine (well, at that time Ukraine Republic of USSR). My parents are from St.Petersburg, but mother went to Ukraine (to relatives) at that time, because, as she said, at Ukraine is better climate for kids. Well, maybe she was right, but that's not an object. The main thing is that in documents a birth place was writed as "Leningrad". Because in Soviet Union if you are not born in Leningrad, you was not allow to live here except if you came there to study, or if you married with someone from Leningrad, or was sent by Party to work in Leningrad. ;D
Today (thanks God) it is not like this, but parts of that system stay as it was. You can go to any city of the country, but you must register there if you want to work. Registration procedure is long and difficult, and it is very annoying.
This is very interesting! For a second there I thought you were actually Ukranian, but no, clearly you are 100% Russian. When your mom said Ukraine offered a "better climate for kids", was she referring to the physical climate (e.g., not as cold) or another reason? Do you speak Ukrainian? Do they also use the Cyrillic alphabet?
Quote from: Daniil on July 20, 2012, 02:20 PM
And where are you from, Humbert? :) As I can understand from forum topics, you are from Cuba (Yeah, Vivan los Che! Vivan los Isle of Revolution!) ;)
That's correct. I was a very small child when Castro came to power. My father was an official in the government that preceeded him, so we had to run to Miami until the day Castro was overthrown. Sadly, history didn't favor us. I lived Miami until last year that I was finally able to sell my house and move to San Antonio (Texas) where I'm living now. I relocated because I just hate Miami. San Antonio is smaller, less crime infested and the people are much more friendly. Although it's nowhere near as cold as anywhere in Russia, it's much less tropical than Miami. Just to give you an idea, it's the first time in my life that I lived in a place where leaves actually fall from trees during autumn and grow again in spring. Also, I haven't seen any lizards here yet -- in Miami, those little lizards (about 6 cm long) are everywhere, and often you'll find them crawling on the wall inside your house.
@ humbert
Comrade, please forgive my impropriety. Looks like my yells about Che and Revolution was absolutely incorrect in connects with your situation, and offends you. Please forgive me.
In school we were teached that whole cuban nation greeted the revolution and Castro with pleasure. And in school some of us even had an berets with star and shouted "Be like Che!" We thought that revolution on Cuba was one of "good" revolutions and really helped the peoples live better. And we never even thinks about those who was in power before Gulf of Pigs... I'm sorry, humbert... As I know, life is not nice in immigration...
All you said about Miami, Texas, and other places of southern US is sounded for me like a tropical exotic! Never in real saw a place where leaves don't fall for winter. :)
If talk about my mom's words about climate - yes, she reffered to physical climate. Here in Piter is very humid and cold, and lack of sunshine, and it is not a good place for kids. And, well, in Ukraina was different "kolkhoses" (farms) near the Ismail town, so there is a lot of fruits, vegetables, so - vitamines and all. At soviet time it was difficult to found a fruits in Leningrad at winter.
As for Linux and my computer knowledges - I learned almost everything by myself. In my first institute i studied to be a programmer, and our teachers tried to teach us something, but they teached us very bad (maybe because knows nothing themself). If talk about Linux - yes, I know something about it. For example, I can set up Linux server - with DNS, DHCP, multi-net gateway, proxy, firewall, mail server and other. But I need to smoke a lot of manuals to make this. So it's a bit difficult.
As for your rus keyboard... well. Default Windows OnScreen KB gives an horrible glitches and don't want to change language anywhere except the Desktop... :o :P ;D If you want, I can make a screenshot of russian OnScreen Kb, and send it to you. So you can watch at it and type cyrillic symbols after change lang by Alt+Shift.
@ katana
And, where is our business girl? How it's going with business name?
Quote from: Daniil on July 25, 2012, 11:01 PM
Comrade, please forgive my impropriety. Looks like my yells about Che and Revolution was absolutely incorrect in connects with your situation, and offends you. Please forgive me.
In school we were teached that whole cuban nation greeted the revolution and Castro with pleasure. And in school some of us even had an berets with star and shouted "Be like Che!" We thought that revolution on Cuba was one of "good" revolutions and really helped the peoples live better. And we never even thinks about those who was in power before Gulf of Pigs... I'm sorry, humbert... As I know, life is not nice in immigration...
Toвapвищ, no need to apologize, no offense taken. What happened in Cuba was similar to what happened in Iran, Nicaragua and maybe Russia in 1917. A relatively benevolent dictator was in charge and was replaced by a dictatorship which was 100 times worse! My definition of "benevolent dictatorship" is one where you are in trouble only if you are a poliical opponent. If you just live there, work and don't bother anyone, the government will never bother you. The Argentine national Che Guevara was simply a soldier in Castro's army. Castro arranged to have him killed in 1967 then made him an idol of Communism and the oppressed, but none of this was historically true.
Quote from: Daniil on July 25, 2012, 11:01 PM
All you said about Miami, Texas, and other places of southern US is sounded for me like a tropical exotic! Never in real saw a place where leaves don't fall for winter. :)
How you can like the heat is beyond my comprehension. I am counting the days for winter to arrive. I try to walk some 3 km every day, but now it's tough. Even by 10:00am the temperature outside is already 35°C and the sun is unbearable. In Miami you had rainfall at a rate of 10cm/hr for about 20 minutes, then the clouds moved away and sunshine came in. Then that water would evaporate and the steam would be simply intolerable. Fortunately in Miami and San Antonio there is air conditioning everywhere. Not so in Mexico. When I was there in June for a wedding, there was A/C only at night and daytime temps of 41° to 43°C.
Quote from: Daniil on July 25, 2012, 11:01 PM
If talk about my mom's words about climate - yes, she reffered to physical climate. Here in Piter is very humid and cold, and lack of sunshine, and it is not a good place for kids. And, well, in Ukraina was different "kolkhoses" (farms) near the Ismail town, so there is a lot of fruits, vegetables, so - vitamines and all. At soviet time it was difficult to found a fruits in Leningrad at winter.
I'd just love to visit St. Petersburg in the wintertime. Last time I saw snow as during a vacation to Canada some 11 years ago. I love it when it's cloudy and cold. The heat and bright sunshine kill me. :(
Quote from: Daniil on July 25, 2012, 11:01 PM
As for Linux and my computer knowledges - I learned almost everything by myself. In my first institute i studied to be a programmer, and our teachers tried to teach us something, but they teached us very bad (maybe because knows nothing themself). If talk about Linux - yes, I know something about it. For example, I can set up Linux server - with DNS, DHCP, multi-net gateway, proxy, firewall, mail server and other. But I need to smoke a lot of manuals to make this. So it's a bit difficult.
It's a little late now, but I'm going to send you a PM or e-mail describing the problem to see if maybe you might know a solution. It not private or anything, it's just a little late and I didn't sleep well last night. :(
Quote from: Daniil on July 25, 2012, 11:01 PM
As for your rus keyboard... well. Default Windows OnScreen KB gives an horrible glitches and don't want to change language anywhere except the Desktop... :o :P ;D If you want, I can make a screenshot of russian OnScreen Kb, and send it to you. So you can watch at it and type cyrillic symbols after change lang by Alt+Shift.
Yes, definitely do that. I'm interested.
OK, humbert, we had "drive trough".
Now, against, I offer to go to "General Talk" to talk about heat and other stuff. And as you ask, I attached screenshot of kbd to this message.
Hm-m-m... Jokingly. ;D 4 attachments per post, max total size 1024 k, max individual size 128 k... 128x4=512... Hmm... It's strange, how 4 attachments, size of 128 k each one, can be max 1024 k?.. ;D Lol... ;D
Quote from: Daniil on July 25, 2012, 11:01 PM
@ katana
And, where is our business girl? How it's going with business name?
New business is still in the planning stage... Hopefully, we'll be able to launch it in early September. (A friend told me not to open/start a business in August coz it's bad luck.)
A bad luck is starting business at August? :) Why? :) Never heared about that... If you can, tell about this, please.
Quote from: Daniil on July 26, 2012, 10:30 AM
A bad luck is starting business at August? :) Why? :) Never heared about that... If you can, tell about this, please.
Oh it's just old people's superstition... :) Not much of a believer in it and I don't even know why it is bad luck. But the one who told me that is a dear friend who was just so serious when he said it that I had to reconsider. Besides, I need his help to decorate the new place! :D It won't take much to be on his good side, ain't it? ;D ;) ;D
Quote from: Daniil on July 26, 2012, 08:59 AM
OK, humbert, we had "drive trough".
Now, against, I offer to go to "General Talk" to talk about heat and other stuff. And as you ask, I attached screenshot of kbd to this message.
Thanks for moving all this to 'General Talk'. Many times I get carried away and end up posting stuff on topics where they don't belong. I got your pic of the Russian keyboard. I'm surprised the letters are in lower case as opposed to Latin keyboards where they're in upper case. Also, while I'm seeing an Fn key, I don't see function keys anywhere. Do you use this same keyboard (or a similar one) to type Latin characters while memorizing their position on the board?
Quote from: Daniil on July 26, 2012, 08:59 AM
Hm-m-m... Jokingly. ;D 4 attachments per post, max total size 1024 k, max individual size 128 k... 128x4=512... Hmm... It's strange, how 4 attachments, size of 128 k each one, can be max 1024 k?.. ;D Lol... ;D
Ahmad knows more about this than I do. I believe it's got something to do with the amount of characters the entire post will take. There's a logic behind this but I don't fully understand it.
Before I forget, I'm attaching a Word document where I wrote my problems installing Linux Mint. Maybe you might know what I'm doing wrong.
@ humbert
Answered your question in private message.
Sorry, bros, have a lack of time. It's a lot of work - I'm searching an investment.
Quote from: Daniil on July 30, 2012, 10:37 AM
@ humbert
Answered your question in private message.
Sorry, bros, have a lack of time. It's a lot of work - I'm searching an investment.
I received your answer. Many thanks! Incidentally, don't become another chief in the sense that you can't be here because of work. :) ;D
Quote from: humbert on July 31, 2012, 05:20 AM
I received your answer. Many thanks! Incidentally, don't become another chief in the sense that you can't be here because of work. :) ;D
Glad to help. :)
As about "chief"... Lol... ;D I'll try to climb on a pine tree, without scratches on my butt. ;) 8)
I guess I can be back on forum at weekend.