Author Archive
Importing contacts from Nokia E71 to HTC Desire
In my previous post I was asking which phone I should buy: Desire, Nexus or iPhone. Finally I decided to go with HTC Desire and for my wife I bought Desire’s little brother HTC Wildfire .
After playing about 4-5 days with Desire, I can say that it is an amazing phone, I love it.
First [...]
New photos and smartphone recommendation
Long time without posting on my blog, so, I think is time to update it a little bit . Yes, I am still here, but very, very busy with my work, attending to conferences and visiting different places. I just uploaded on Flickr some recent photos from my last trips (Lake Garda, Verona, Salzburg, [...]
iPad – a nice device, but, not for me
I was expected to run MacOS and not iPhoneOS.
NO webcam
NO photocam
NO voice (skype and friends)
NO usb
NO card reader
NO MS Office (for some people)
NO terminal/console (sometimes I need ssh)
NO flash
locked in AppStore (so, NO firefox, opera, chrome)
NO multitasking
glossy screen for reading books (no way)
NO GPS
NO great deal for money
….
so, it is a HUGE iPhone without phone [...]
Opera 10.10 vs Firefox 3.6
The screenshot says everything … (the same number of tabs)
click on image for a large version
Fixing Lighttpd in Debian “squeeze” on SheevaPlug
I was using SheevaPlug as my Home NAS, with and external usb hdd, until recently when I built my new NAS, based on ION ATOM, FreeBSD and ZFS.
I am thinking to add an usb webcam and to use it as a monitoring system.
I updated Debian “squeeze”, which is running on an 8G SDHC card, but [...]
My ZFS Home NAS/HTPC Box Build
I was looking to build a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to store all my music, photos, files, e-books and important work related files. I also wanted to have a central place for my backups and to be used sometimes as HTPC. So, a “two in one” solution (NAS and HTPC).
Even if there are many ready-to-go [...]
Upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2. Yes, it is about openSUSE :)
A few days ago I upgraded openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 on my sony vaio notebook. I used for that the dvd and I kept my luks encrypted home partition, and as well the encrypted swap partition. It seems that everything is working well, it is a great release with a lot of improvements and nice [...]
Yahoo Mail and free IMAP
If you are using yahoo mail, like me, then you missed for a long time IMAP access for your inbox. They provide just POP3 access and I don’t want that. I would like to have/access the messages also via web interface and also to have them on my computer for offline access. So, the solution [...]
Hmm, finally, I did it …
After playing around with a Mac Pro for more than two years (I have it as my workstation at work, but I preferred to use as main working machine my Sony Vaio SZ, running OpenSUSE), finally, I changed my mind and I’ve now made a decision on my new laptop. I also considered that would [...]
OpenSUSE 11.1 and Plesk 9.2.1 update
After more than three years of using Suse 9.3 with Plesk 8.1 on one of my VPS, I decided that it is time to update to OpenSUSE 11.1 with Plesk 9.2.1 control panel. The update process went very well, here are the steps involved:
1. create a full backup of your vps (databases, websites, accounts, emails, [...]
