N900: how does it feel? sent it back to nokia after two weeks

One week later, the unit has hit me with a bug. No sound in the ear speaker. Sometimes. Two weeks of trying to find out the pattern. Reflashing, updating. No joy. Trying to debug the rather complicated sound subsystem without any useful documentation. Like a dozen of comments in the maemo bug with 20 votes, no answer yet from nokia only “internal bug open”. I really don’t feel like I have time for...

Oracle closes Kenai.com “to provide the best project hosting solution”

OK, this is the first one, how many are there yet to come? This action is being undertaken to provide the best project hosting solution for all of our customers into one location. Minimizing the number of current project hosting sites is a start in this direction. The consolidation process is underway and we will post notices about the plans and timeline as they become publicly available. and is it for bad or for...

Firefox mobile updated rc1

Fennec rc1 on n900 Still slow like … Well, slower than...

GSM Encryption “hacked”

some guy has released 2TB codebook of GSM encryption keys and the story is getting a lot of attention in media … Should it? I bet it shouldn’t. GSM (A5/1 64bit cipher actually) was crackable long time ago. Now if someone wants to know what you are yapping about he can do that in a few days (?!?). You should not care about it much. If you have what to hide then the ones who you hide it from most probably...

The Story of Stuff

http://storyofstuff.org/well, I was speaking of it all the time now she does it a way better learned two new terms though planned and perceived obsolescence via storyofstuffproject on...