С Новым Годом!
Булгаков писал: “разруха не в клозетах, а в головах”. Кризис не в экономике, а в головах.
Diploma thesis
I’m proud to announce my diploma thesis completion. Diploma topic was „Developing automated functional tests for a new Intercollege Study Information System using Selenium framework“. I chose a codename for the work – “bloody November sleeplessness”. The codename completely describes what writing was (wasn’t?) about.
Ubuntu 8.10 on HP Compaq nx6310
The specs
CPU: Intel CeleronM works out of the box
Chipset: Intel 945GM works out of the box
Video: Intel GMA 950 works out of the box DualHead included (yay! finally)
VGA (D-Sub) / DualHead: DualHead works out of the box. External dispaly on/off (Fn+F4) doesn’t work.
Optical drive: Matushita DVD-RAM UJ-840S works out of the box
Lan: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 works out of the box
WiFi: Broadcom 4311 doesn’t work out of the box. Need’s to fetch a firmware from the Internet
PCMCIA: Texas Instruments ( 8039 ?) not tested
Firewire: Texas Instruments ( 803a?) not tested
USB 2.0: works out of the box
Laptop lid indicator: doesn’t work at all
bug in Nokia 3120 Classic’s alarm
There’s a bug in my Nokia 3120 Classic, firmware v 07.16 27-05-08 RM-364.
Steps to reproduce:
1 Enable ‘Active Stand By’ Update 05.10.2008: after all this doesn’t affect the issue
2 Put the phone on charge (eg for a night while you sleep)
3 Put your alarm on
4 Alarm turns on in the morning.
Expected result: you click ‘Snoose’ and dream for 10 more minutes.
Actual result: there’s no ‘Snooze’ button. ‘Menu’ is instead. Keypad seems to be unlocked. Pressing any key switches alarm off and failes you on getting right on time. Later, the phone blinks after hanging off a.k.a. pressing the “red phone button”
Solution: after charging your phone turn it off and then turn it on again (a.k.a restart it) OR disable the active stand by
Nokia 3120 classic and Ubuntu 8.04 linux (updated)
In this post I’ll try to sum up the friendship 
between Nokia’s 3120 classic mobile phone and Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy Heron linux.
Ubuntu 8.04 on HP Compaq nx6310
The specs
CPU: Intel CeleronM works out of the box
Chipset: Intel 945GM works out of the box
Video: Intel GMA 950 works out of the box (needs tweaking if you want DualHead)
VGA (D-Sub) / DualHead: external dispaly on/off (Fn+F4) doesn’t work out of the box. Need’s tweaking if you want DualHead. Though, it broke later anyway. External monitor works just fine.
Optical drive: Matushita DVD-RAM UJ-840S works out of the box
Lan: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 works out of the box
WiFi: Broadcom 4311 doesn’t work out of the box; easily configurable
PCMCIA: Texas Instruments ( 8039 ?) not tested
Firewire: Texas Instruments ( 803a?) not tested
USB 2.0: works out of the box
Laptop lid indicator: doesn’t work at all
moved (back) from blogger
I’ve moved (back) three old posts from my blogspot.com. The posts, comments and the counter are moved back to wordpress.com.
At the moment, the counter stats are as follows: wordpress.com – 291 hits, blogspot.com – 5335 visits (hits?).
The sole purpose of blogger account was the AdSense, but that failed miserably (5$ in two years (that one get suspendedtoo)). And given how “much” even a 100$ here in Europe is, it’s a total no-go.
Moreover, I find ads disturbing. Though, I wouldn’t mind if wordpress.com had ads to make the damn thing work faster… But free (as in free speech) content matters more than speed for me
jhead EXIF editor
I’ve been to a great eurotrip with my friends lately. We got lots of great pictures taken on two digicams. But…
the day after tomorrow…
So what do we have:
LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April
…
Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) provides a stable platform for software and hardware vendors, developers and users.
….
It includes the latest, stable version of many core products, and in that spirit is the first distribution to bring Mozilla Firefox 3 (Beta 5) to millions of users.
These just don’t fit. I already see all upcoming articles and rants full of swearing and other negative stuff : (
Just think about it:
- most of us use the PC mainly for web
- we use Firefox™to do that
- why do we use firefox? Riiight, the add-ons (I have 15)
- what happens with the beta?? Righ on! some (or lots of, or only few of them??) add-ons don’t work
- what do we have in the finalé? Right, a (semi)broken web-browser and broken user experience
All the poor users, who’ll click the “Upgrade” button only to find their firefox profile to be broken.
Broken till June? Hell no! the addons would catch up earlier. But then again read this and keep wondering why you can’t see the plugin’s minimal supported version on the new add-ons portal (I didn’t find, only some of them have the info in the comments).
What were they (the ubuntu release team) thinking®?
Here’s a link you might find usefull.
As for me, still comfy with good ‘ol 7.04. And right said, synchronise the releases!
RSSOwl
Вдогонку про RSSOwl. Эта хрень массово обновляет все закладки. В универе это напрягает, каждые 15 минут поп-ап о том, что есть новые записи >:-О
В свойствах каждой закладки есть настройка “частота обновления”. В ЖЖ и некоторых новостях стоти на кждый 30/60 минут.
Эту хрень нельзя изменить массово, а в ручную можно сдохнуть это делать. Пришлось через GEdit делать Replace updateInterval=”60″ на ” ” И то сработало только со 2 раза, т.к первый раз он видимо отбэкапился, т.е надо фиксить два файла. user.xml и user.bak ..вроде
