Nokia E71

Ok, it took a while but now I've got it. This thing is just A W E S O M E...
Completely autark fetching podcasts, emails, syncing over the web and so on...
The only flaw that I see so far is that I cannot install the Nokia Suite on Windows 7. But well...
The things that amaze me the most are:

• Homezone display - show me the Homezone baby!
• E-mail - works like a charm
• wifi works like a charm
• umts works like a charm
• I can even watch my video podcasts - was afraid to loose that
• goosync
• connect with every os to sync and use it as a modem
• Nokia ovi
• a2dp - baby!

Well the basic thing is that is just works ... battery seems to be neverending and I am - as you might notice - completely happy with that thing...
As soon as my 16gb and dock for the phone arrive, it'll be PERFECTION!

apt-proxy

An apt-proxy caches software that you retrieve via the apt-get command on a computer in the network. That means if you have more than one computer, this already makes sense. The packages only get downloaded on demand. Whenever a computer requests the packages, the proxy fetches them and keeps them for a time that you can set. If another computer needs the same package, it can get it from the apt-proxy instead of having to download it again. So for bigger debian/ubuntu infrastructures this actually makes a lot of sense. And it is easy to set up, too. All you have to do on the computer that should turn into an apt-proxy is type
suro apt-get install apt-proxy
done. Well you have to change the /etc/apt/sources.list a bit on that computer and on the clients:
Instead of
deb url/ubuntu ... you shall have deb /ubuntu ...
There are actually some pretty good howtos around if that is not enough for you.

kubuntu intrepid

Just giving kubuntu a go and I have to say that for a rather mature system like the intrepid version there are a lot of things that need to be done before it accepts my external monitor, stops to flicker, does the resolution I want. And some things are not as intuitive as I would like it. BUT the look and feel is great. A lot of ripping of from osx but who doesn't do that these days... ;)
Konqueror is not best friends with flash as it seems so I installed firefox as backup. But I do like the fast webkit machine.
Audio works like a charm compared to the k-missing flavor.
Getting Eclipse to run was also kind of a pain in the ass.
I am keeping this one for the look and feel. Since I love to play around with new things. But if you use ubuntu and want a stable system you might wanna stick to the k-less flavor!

vnstat

Seems like I forgot this one.
http://humdi.net/vnstat/
Pretty neat little console traffic monitor which monitors the traffic on an interface base. Perfectly easy to set up (sudo apt-get install vnstat for debian folks)

Wie soll man so Vertrauen in RFID gewinnen???

Amerika macht mal wieder alles falsch, was falsch zu machen ist...
http://www.heise.de/tr/Funkende-Sicherheitsprobleme--/artikel/121121

Get started with apple script...

it is awesome, what you can do with apple script. Got started on Tuesday and already love it...

If you wanna give it a go, too, get yourself that e-book:

http://fischer-bayern.de/applescript/html/ebook.html

Time Machine for windows..

... is called clickfree:
http://www.goclickfree.com/

Now windows users can also enjoy a hassle-free backup suite. I hope that'll also come for linux. Until then the penguin-friends can use sbackup (simple backup) which does a pretty good job, too and won't be to hard for a geeky linux-nerd after all...

The perfect mobile phone...

... is not invented, yet and maybe never will be... BUT - for me the one that comes closest to my opinion of it is the Nokia E71. What I expect of a cell is the following:

• good ability to exchange data (+modem)/ sync with all 3 major os
• stable os with a good task manager
• comfortable media player
• podcasts
• wi-fi (with wpa2)
• gps (and the ability to install a standalone navigation software)
• umts (3g)
• full keyboard
• e-mail features
• browser
• of course a stable phone software
• Bluetooth with a2dp profile

I think that's about it... so I thought to myself: "What do I really want?" - the answer is a mixture of my Pocket Loox's functionality and my Nokia's stability.

From the feature set and all that I read and saw so far, the Nokia E71 is the thing that I have been looking for. I will probably buy one in the 1st quarter of 2009 and post about my experience with it.

ZATTOO

Watch TV on your computer without a TV card? YES - YOU CAN! ;)

http://zattoo.com/

Zattoo is a software that you download on your pc (win/lin) or mac. You can watch regular tv channels with it over the internet. Don't believe it? Check it out...