Mini Interview - Diver (Sergei Reznikov)

Friday, 11 June 2010 07:26

Sergei recently won our April Thank You Award. Like all winners, we asked him a few questions with regards to his activity in the Haiku community:

Q1: How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills?

I'm 27 years old and I (together with my girlfriend) have been running a medium sized ISP company in Moscow for the last several years now. Before that I had been working as a support engineer in the very same company where I become pretty familiar with lots of network related quirks - both software and hardware and various user problems. So I usually know what could go wrong and how to fix different problems on user's PCs. But now I'm happy not to communicate much with ordinar users :-) ...

Q2: In your April 2010 Thank You Award nomination, it said: "for his 4 years long work on looking for bugs. More than 800 bug reports it is absolute record in Haiku bugs hunting!". How difficult (or easy) was it to accomplish these tasks?

I would say it was pretty difficult. Looking back at my first several dozens of tickets I'm thinking now how naive I was back then :-) They were not very informative and sometimes hard to follow, also my English skills used to be some what lower than now. Later, continuously monitoring Haiku's bugzilla and later Trac via rss I became aware of what kind of information developers usually need.

What motivates me most is the fact that sometimes I can influence some aspects of operating system which I want to use full time in the near futureby reporting small, but annoying things which I remember from using BeOS R5 as my primary system. But when someone fixes your bug it really stimulates you to file more of them.

Q3: What would you love to have that would make working on Haiku easier?

There are three things I'd like to have working on Haiku.

VirtualBox additions: As I'm mostly using the VirtualBox to find bugs in Haiku I often find myself not comfortable with transmitting needed info from the guest machine to the host. Now I'm using ftp/scp, but I would love to have at least basic clipboard support and a mouse driver. There is something with general performance of Haiku in emulators compared to Linux/Windows.
Java: Currently I have to use Ubuntu/Fedora on all my boxes because I need Java to run our ISP billing system (well, admin part of it). I would really like to be able to do that within Haiku one day.
Office: As sad as it might sound, but our work often requires the use of MS Office compatible office system.

Q4: What interesting book, band, TV show etc. would you like to recommend?

Recently my girlfriend gave me as a present several books by Stephen Hawking which I had wanted to buy for several months. Also I love science fiction books and movies. Speaking about movies I enjoyed watching Watchmen (2009) last year. From time to time we watch sitcoms like The big bang theory and Weeds
;-).

Comments

+2 # Thanks — Humdingerl 2010-06-11 10:44

Thanks, for that interview!
Diver, when you say: "There is something with general performance of Haiku in emulators compared to Linux/Windows." I take it, Haiku's performance is lacking, right?

BTW, Watchmen wasn't my cup of tea at all. The god-like pwoers of Dr. Manhattan are a real turn off for me...
The Big Bang Theory is just as bad..... BAZINGA! Got you. TBBT rules! :lol:

0 # re: Thanks — Diver 2010-06-13 03:53

Yeah, Haiku's performance is lacking behind:
applications load slowly whereas XP and Ubuntu is almost as fast as native install. Responsiveness is very poor too. This is with both vmware and vbox.

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