https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/notes of a bank IT guy in Talas. plain, since 2022. Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/10/ups-again.html Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:40:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/10/ups-again.html Fixed the UPS in the server room at work. Third time this month. The batteries are fine, the building's power is not. Writing this from the bus home, by phone, which this theme allows, because the page is tiny.https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/09/22-september.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:10:00 +0600noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/09/22-september.html Today everyone at the branch asked me about the coin. I said: ask the teller, I fix machines. The teller said: ask the manager. The manager said: ask the Department. A man who had come to withdraw 50 som said: "so nobody knows". I said nothing. In my job, "nobody knows" is a status. I have seen it…https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/09/seventh-class.html Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0600familyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/09/seventh-class.html The boy started 7th class at School No. 31, the same school his mother went to. Informatics teacher: the same woman who taught his mother. She remembered Aizhan by name. She did not remember me, because I went to a different school, but she knew my old blog. Small city.https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/07/thirteen.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0600familyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/07/thirteen.html The boy is thirteen. He asked for nothing but a very good book on how radios work. I found one in the second-hand section at the bazaar, 1971 edition, a bit foxed. He read it in two days and told me my 2024 radio kit "had a wrong resistor in the diagram". He is right. I checked. It was a printing…https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/06/foreign-readers-back.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0600internethttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/06/foreign-readers-back.html After the "network modernisation" foreign readers can reach Iradi sites again. The Kündölük statistics show the first visitor from abroad since October 2023: a search robot. Then my cousin in Chicago. Hello, robot. Hello, Damir.https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/05/a-number-i-had-to-type.html Thu, 07 May 2026 21:50:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/05/a-number-i-had-to-type.html This week my job was to type one number into one field. The number is 300. The field is "monthly cash dollars per customer". The field is my job. The number is not. I tested it on twelve accounts. It works. It does exactly what it says.https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/03/monday-8-40.html Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:55:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2026/03/monday-8-40.html There is a queue before the branch opens. Mostly for dollars. Some are customers, some are people who have taken a day off to stand in a line, because in a year like this a place in a line is something you can pass to your cousin. The machines are fine. They only give som, that is how they are…https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2025/10/the-branch-on-ayyubov-street.html Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:20:00 +0600familyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2025/10/the-branch-on-ayyubov-street.html My wife's branch has been rebuilt: new floor, new light, new counters, a plant by the door. She says the plant is fake. I say it is the only one in the building that has never had a technical failure. They have also put in one of my machines. It is by the window. My wife says it's the first time…https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2025/06/the-busiest-machine.html Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:30:00 +0600workhttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2025/06/the-busiest-machine.html There is a machine at the Bazar-i Kalan that is used 31,000 times a month. It lives in a small glass booth between two stalls. It has a smell of apricots, dust and diesel. In summer it breaks every second Tuesday. Today I replaced its fan for the third time this year. A stall owner gave me a pear.…https://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2025/04/things-that-still-run-windows-xp.html Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0600listshttps://blog.attelkom.net/bekzhan2022/2025/04/things-that-still-run-windows-xp.html Seen with my own eyes in Talas in the last year (none of them at my work, before you ask): a ticket machine at a car park a dental x-ray computer the scoreboard computer at a sports hall the cash register of a pharmacy, with a Kündölük bookmark on the desktop