Continuation

I have just discovered a XRDP , which is a RDPv4 server for Linux/Unix.

I am well impressed! Especially that it saves your session  between connections.  Time to incorporate it into my systems.

geek, gentoo, hacking, idea, laptop, linux

This was suppose to be a long post describing the differences and similarities of Linux distributions to other software…

But I just want to say that you should have a look at Mac OS and Ubuntu, I’ve notice they are bloody similar in their current market and … ambitions.

They are both good on a home desktop, they can do as a home server ( they have server editions ). They also lack hardcore enterprise solutions.

geek, hint, idea, linux, rant

Bought a PC, for gaming.

Yap, a Dell Vostro 200. I’m running MS Vista and playing games on it.

It will have Linux in about a month, when I will get bored of games for next 5 years.

So far, I am enjoying the world of computing where legitimate users have more trouble running their legitimate software and media copies.

How people can accept this kind of obstructions ?!

BTW, I have bought it using my vacation budget, it is a sort of travel in to another world, for a month, instead of  really traveling over the weekend ( same budget ).

idea, rant, travel, windows

If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type.

For some thoughts about the second type, read more

Read more…

geek, hacking, idea, internet access, linux, security, solaris, web

Lets say you have a dozen of servers. Lets say you connect to them very often to do some work. You have a very nice and descriptive domain for all your servers. Domain is organized nicely organized.

Now you wish to connect to one of the servers. You are typing

ssh mylovelyserver.somesubdomain.mylovelylongdomain.tld

How much do you like to type such a long address ?

Read more…

dns, hacking, hint, idea, support, web

After many years … yes, years, I’ve sort of sorted my music Still have to get rest of my collection from Poland but it’s good. Also a friend shared some nice soul with me, THX! it’s cool hot.

It appears that my recent purchase ( the HP Media Vault ) was a great idea. It forced me to sort my data properly and security is strait in my network now, all thanks to my new NAS

Soon I will have to get around buying that 300GB SATA HD to enable mirroring on it, super safe!

gadget, geek, household, idea, music, security

If you have an E61 and upgraded it to latest firmware so you could use VoIP behind firewall. You have discovered that it ain’t so easy as there is no manual setting for firewall traversing. Do not throw your phone at that wall yet!

NAT traversing is only settable by remote provisioning ( you need a server, send some SMS messages and so on ) or…

Using plugins as they call them on www.forum.nokia.com, it is very fortunate that Gizmo VoIP has already produced one. If you use their service it’s perfect for you. If you don’t ,still helps.

Simply go to their website, download plugin, install it to your phone ( I have downloaded it using build in browser in E61 ) and run, it will ask you for your gizmo login detail, put some rubbish, and finish. Then go to your Settings , locate Gizmos SIP Profile and modify it so it will use you prefered  provider details and bang it works

enjoy

e61, idea, voip

I need to setup a system which uses SVN for storing ‘website’ revisions and automatically updates live/review/development systems whenever there is commit. Adding a little bit of complication each server is updated from different branch.

If website serving boxes would be any kind of UNIX, this post would not exist… way too easy.

Web servers are Windows boxes  and they are located in different networks, so no SAMBA.

My ideas so far :

Naturally using hooks in repository…

1. Using rsync
   This idea was to : whenever content of a branch is changed, branch is exported locally on SVN server, rsync it to Web server.
2. Using FTP
   similar to rsync , instead of using rsync for file transport we would use FTP
3. Using SVN+HTTP
   Here it gets lil bit more complicated ,  after branch changed, svn server sends HTTP request to web server, which fires svn up .

Each of an ideas has its minuses, 1 uses precious svn server disk space for second copy, requires web servers to run rsync servers. 2 uses disk space on svn and abuses a lot of bandwidth every time when something changes. 3 requires web servers to have svn clients installed and custom CGI/ASP/Whatever which will trigger svn updates on local copies.

There is one more, using scripting language to write FTP/SVN integration : something like ftp client which instead of uploading from File System it would upload from SVN … that looks good! will have to research on which tools I can use to do that!

geek, hacking, idea, solaris, svn, web, windows

Ania is writing a dissertation. She knows nothing about text editing, they never taught it in her university. When I had questionable pleasure of being asked how to do something in OpenOffice every five minutes, I have asked her if she can send the file over to me, and I will create some styles for her text.

What I have received was nowhere to be said ‘pro’ …
I have spend around 8h or more to remove all the extra empty paragraphs, repeated spaces and finally styling each of the paragraphs, converting formula’a to objects… adding correct captions. Really not the most interesting stuff to do.
Before sending corrected document back to Ania, I had to explain what I have done, and how she should carry-on editing it. And during that time I have written some useful tips for a newbie, all in Polish ( except names from OpenOffice ). I will try to compile a short and no doubt incomplete tutorial. Just after I will get over with this ‘dissertation problem’.

bachelors in science, education, hint, idea, weekend

If Wii has such a nice controller… will have to definitely test it in a shop before buying.

But is it, without a doubt much better approach to human-game interaction, than everything else what I’ve seen, when it comes to default game controller.

gaming, idea