So it looks London is not as power perfect as I initially anticipated. Today I had no electricity at my place for about 10 hours. The best part is that when I was coming back home, I have asked one of the workers, when it may be fixed and he said that they still didn’t [...]
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Ubuntu the Mac OS of Linux
13 Nov 2007 at 22:23
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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 [...]
VoIP
I have started using voip systems something like a 3 years ago. First casual for calling abroad as advised by my former boss I have registered with SipGate. First used it with linphone, later actualy bought a hard phone the Grandstream GXP2000. It was always fun. Later I have installed Asterisk server for my self [...]
Ebook Reader – but rip off Britain stops me
06 Nov 2007 at 23:39
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For very long time I am contemplating to buy an ebook, usually they were extremely expensive ( the eRex ) or didn’t had the MobiPocket® read functionality – Sony ( as I have a collection of ebook in that format I would love to be able to read them on the ebook reader, not only [...]
Little entertainment
01 Oct 2007 at 23:01
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I’m kinda tired and overworked recently, needed a break from reality. Games were not good enough as they were annoying my partner. Bought my self a season of House and it works! Nice break from reality and my partner likes it as well. Time for another dose of my treatment… BTW PowerDVD sucks … why [...]
Just a gaming PC
10 Sep 2007 at 22:47
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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 [...]
E61 Internet Telephone hanging
I am experiencing problems with my beloved E61. I used to connect to my company wireless network and then login to my VoIP account thanks to my STUN hack. Now I have discovered that whenever I am walking away from the range of WiFi , phone disconnects but leaves Internet phone running. When Internet Phone [...]
Outlook and clueless messages
29 Jan 2007 at 11:55
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I love when software is giving you a message which tells nothing except to contact administrator … and what administrator gets from the msg ? nothing, just a memo to contact himself … crap. My solution to : “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. The set of folders could [...]
SVN and Solaris 10
One word: Nightmare! How on Earth, can I install SVN/Subversion on that bloody operating system , so it will include bindings for either Perl or Ruby ?! fighting with it for last two days… finally got source to at least compile … but even if I have Ruby ( from CSW ) and Perl ( [...]
I just do not like when perfectly working system is “upgraded” to not working. Today I have upgraded my X.org X11 to 7.1 and … my Fglrx drivers stopped working. Does not matter which version, it just does not work due to binary incompatibility between modules and X11. crap! I had to merge f86-video-ati which [...]
