Big news, really big this time. The company that leads the proprietary VoIP is opening the doors gates for the standards. Predictably  you have to pay for entrance. Ironically, they do it with the company leading the open VoIP, Digium: GLENDALE, Ariz. (AstriCon 2008)—September 25, 2008—Digium®, creator and primary developer of Asterisk®, the leading open Read More →

A really nice page that shows in numbers who Canonical ( the company behind Ubuntu Linux driven by Mark Richard Shuttleworth, for the rest of us ) really is. Or at least it is my last argument in hating the pathetic distribution that sucks life essence from GNU/Linux. I’ve been always saying Ubuntu is a Read More →

When you get no events notifications about power cable in-out on vaio, you must probably have hit the vaio bios bug. Practically it sends 0x81 event instead of 0x80. To fix it in current kernels distributed by your favorite vendor you have to add in ac.c : #define ACPI_AC_NOTIFY_STATUS           0x80 +#define ACPI_AC_NOTIFY_SONY             0x81 #define ACPI_AC_STATUS_OFFLINE          Read More →

I am. Spooky. How deep the rabbit hole is? How much of your own life can be traded for the commodity of web X.0 ?First this Chrome thing with nr. 11 statement that owns all of the data comes in and out of browser. They say it was a mistake and will be corrected. Now Read More →

Now this is a good stuff, I like it: You can use customize plug-ins to provide a data path over alternate communication links, such as email, HTTP, satellite, and microwave towers. Never seen such a thing but wanted it badly.

I am not a multimedia guru at all. If only I could I’d insert a fanfares sound here.Anyway, Ladies and Gentelmen, Sun proudly presents the Partnerships Between Clusters: Further reading if you are not satisfied by the picture.

sputnik:~ # zypper dup– skip –Overall download size: 1.55 G. After the operation, additional 173.8 M will be used. I’ve always seen the upgrades sceptically …This time it HAS to work. Come on, it’s 2008 … Update: well, after 40 minutes … it worked 😉Happy me ! TIP: How to upgrade from opensuse 10.3 to Read More →

Oh yes. They’ve told us June 17th. What do we get at 16:00 CET? You can bet we still have 2.0.14 as the only option. Why? Is there delay in the delivery? Some critical bug in software? Are their servers out of space for the new files? Nope. Did you note the 24h time notation? Read More →

I need to make myself a feed proxy … with only two features. Thats it. To proxy feeds To filter out articles by regular expressions Just imagine engadget’s feed with all the /iphone/i filtered out, or suse planet with /miguel/i out? That would make my life easier more peaceful. I will find an hour to Read More →