Nokia N9

Friend of mine loan me this Nokia N9
3.9 inches gorilla display
8 MP, dual LED flash
1GHz Cortex A8 CPU
MeeGo OS




I kind of like that there is no physical button in-front, double tap to activate, swipe down to close application, also dim digital clock when the phone is off. The Camera control is nice, I don't use much camera but I probably will if I own this one.


The way they present multitasking and background task is interesting as you can see from the image above, its really handy for navigating between process, although for the browser I don't like the way it split process for every "tab" since I tend to open  a lot of "tab. This will clutter the task manager.


The biggest problem is that there are not enough apps to play around on ovi store, but since MeeGo licensed on GPLv2/v3 I hope it will be growing along side its cousin Android in the future









- posted by yantm @ 10:47 AM 0 comments

 
Cleaning up exim4 junk queue
Sometimes your exim4 queue full of junk email, you can remove it by this command

exim4 -bpr | more
exim4 -bpr | grep [filter-to-get-the-correct-queue] | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim4 -Mrm " $3}' | sh

- posted by yantm @ 12:28 PM 0 comments

 
Take a Peek at You Current X Display

From time to time I found my self a need to peek what's happening on my desktop screen in the office or at home (I left my Desktop turned on most of the time). No it is not everyday need, maybe only once in 2-3 month.

possible scenario:

• I left office or home while uploading big file using firefox. I need to know whats exactly happening at the end of the upload.
• I left azureus turned on when I left home for work. I want to know the progress and maybe add more download to the queue.

x11vnc and the viewer is the answer, simple and works.

Here's what I usually does:
$ ssh myoffice -L5900:localhost:5900
$ x11vnc

from client side (in this case my home machine)
$ vncviewer -encodings "copyrect tight zrle hextile" localhost:0
- posted by yantm @ 11:36 PM 0 comments

 
Dell 700m
Recently bought Dell 700m during Singapore PC Show 2005 for my wife
Price: SG$1874
Spec:

• Pentium M 725 (1.60GHz, 2MB Cache, 400MHz FSB)
• 512M (2 pcs)
  
• DVD/CD-RW Combo
• 8 cell battery
• 80G HDD
• WinXP Home
• Bundle with Norton Internet Security (I have to buy something to avoid delivery charges)
• 1 Year Warranty
• Wifi a/b/g
• SD slot
  

Pros:

• Cheap (I can not found similar deal from other brand)
• screen is nice and crisp
• dvd/cd-rw built-in, no need to carry arround docking or external drive

Cons:

• keyboard is not full size (, . / is smaller than others) and Fn key for page-up page-down.
  
• Thick
  
• USB slot placement stacked with each other
• no common goodies like CF slot, infrared, bluetooth, serial port, and built-in microphone

Guide to install Debian on it: here and here

Conclusion: No regret, cheap and great.

lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4223 (rev 05)
0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
0000:02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
0000:02:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
- posted by yantm @ 9:52 PM 0 comments

 
DLINK DI-624+ Intermittent Loss Connection Problems
Lesson learn when upgrading DI-624+ firmware:

• upgrade will delete all existing settings
  
• DWL-2000AP+ (client mode) able to connect to DI-624+ only when DI-624+ broadcast it's SSID
  

It has been 4 days since the upgrade, and there is no connection problem so far. I think the upgrade fixed DI-624+ Intermittent loss connection problem.
- posted by yantm @ 11:58 PM 0 comments

 
del.icio.us for your eternal firefox bookmark
Cat ate my bookmarks!!

Worry no more, use del.icio.us and wonderful live bookmark feature from firefox:

1. register to del.icio.us
2. go to del.icio.us about page, drag popup bookmarklets to your bookmark toolbar
3. open your favorite website, for example slasdot.org
4. click popup bookmarklets, fill in tags. I am using tags "News" for slashdot website.
5. go to http://del.icio.us/your-user-name-here/News
6. find live bookmark icon on your Navigation toolbar, click on it, subscribe and place it on bookmarks toolbar folder
7. repeat step 3 and 4 to record all your favorite bookmark
8. you can use your bookmarks on other computer, and even share it with friends
   

notes: do not put personal url to del.icio.us because other people will be able to see your bookmarks.
- posted by yantm @ 2:41 AM 0 comments

 
Low cost alternatif for linux fail-over
Are you working as sysadmin?
Ever in the situation when your boxs going down without a reason? even you have backup handy, but your bos telling you to get the box up and running in a minutes?

linux-ha and drbd is your friend.

References:

1. linux-ha.org, most of the informations available here
2. drbd website
   
3. drbd article, good article about drbd implementation

- posted by yantm @ 1:14 AM 0 comments