27/01 -10: Motorola Milestone, Nokia N900, Apple iPhone
The Android versus Maemo thing is pretty useless, so I'm not doing that. I'm just gathering some of my impressions from Nokia N900 which I have in my use for a couple of days, due to my own phone, the Motorola Milestone (or Droid for any yanks out there), is elsewhere.
To sum it up.
I really don't like N900 at all, it's too much of a device that oozes "I need tweaking and hacking" nerdish mentality, looks awful (device) and feels even worse. I do like the desktop look/graphics, but the touchscreen and UI ruin even that for me. Wouldn't want to use it even if it was given to me for free.
I like iPhone OK, while most of my experience is from iPod Touch, the UI is there and the user experience is very much similar. It's a sleek, fine tuned designer device, which is more for "The Cool People" than a useful tool for people like me. It is missing too many key functions, that I would choose something else over it if I had to, but wouldn't be offended if I had to use it.
I really like Motorola Milestone, mostly because of the balance between great UI design and usability, but also because it has a lot of the capabilities which gives me the option of tweaking and hacking it. It looks very business like, while it has some engineering nerdiness to it, but definately not the kind of device hipsters would want to own or show off.
To sum it up.
I really don't like N900 at all, it's too much of a device that oozes "I need tweaking and hacking" nerdish mentality, looks awful (device) and feels even worse. I do like the desktop look/graphics, but the touchscreen and UI ruin even that for me. Wouldn't want to use it even if it was given to me for free.
I like iPhone OK, while most of my experience is from iPod Touch, the UI is there and the user experience is very much similar. It's a sleek, fine tuned designer device, which is more for "The Cool People" than a useful tool for people like me. It is missing too many key functions, that I would choose something else over it if I had to, but wouldn't be offended if I had to use it.
I really like Motorola Milestone, mostly because of the balance between great UI design and usability, but also because it has a lot of the capabilities which gives me the option of tweaking and hacking it. It looks very business like, while it has some engineering nerdiness to it, but definately not the kind of device hipsters would want to own or show off.
22/12 -09: Laptop battery calibration (linux)
I've had problems with a bit older batteries on several occasion and couldn't find software which will calibrate it for me.
Well, since you don't need software for it and searching for this brings up a lot of questions and not much asnwers, I'm putting this up for myself and any interested parties.
Now, I mainly use Ubuntu myself, so this is for that particular flavour, but its not hard to replicate, no matter the system.
Recharge you battery to full, 100% if possible.
1. Right-click on the battery icon on tray and choose settings
2. Find the battery settings and set everything to "Never", ie. the system will not shutdown when battery is low
3. Let the machine run until battery is dry and machine switches off by itself. (not to suspend or shutdown, mind you)
4. You might want to take the battery out and then back in, no idea if this helps, but shouldn't hurt either.
5. Plug-in the AC-cable and let the battery recharge to full
This should re-calibrate the battery, sometimes it also works better/longer too.
You can do this several times during, say one week for better results.
Also, running the battery low/critical status once in a while, when they work fine, is also a good idea. Especially if you have it plugged in AC most of the time.
I've previously noticed improved performance on cellphones as well (my old Sony Ericsson P800 and P910 for example).
NOTE: Apparently sometimes just taking your battery off while the machine is running on AC-power and the putting it back on, helps too. But as it sounds a bit harsh to me, I'll be using the above way.
Well, since you don't need software for it and searching for this brings up a lot of questions and not much asnwers, I'm putting this up for myself and any interested parties.
Now, I mainly use Ubuntu myself, so this is for that particular flavour, but its not hard to replicate, no matter the system.
Recharge you battery to full, 100% if possible.
1. Right-click on the battery icon on tray and choose settings
2. Find the battery settings and set everything to "Never", ie. the system will not shutdown when battery is low
3. Let the machine run until battery is dry and machine switches off by itself. (not to suspend or shutdown, mind you)
4. You might want to take the battery out and then back in, no idea if this helps, but shouldn't hurt either.
5. Plug-in the AC-cable and let the battery recharge to full
This should re-calibrate the battery, sometimes it also works better/longer too.
You can do this several times during, say one week for better results.
Also, running the battery low/critical status once in a while, when they work fine, is also a good idea. Especially if you have it plugged in AC most of the time.
I've previously noticed improved performance on cellphones as well (my old Sony Ericsson P800 and P910 for example).
NOTE: Apparently sometimes just taking your battery off while the machine is running on AC-power and the putting it back on, helps too. But as it sounds a bit harsh to me, I'll be using the above way.
12/10 -09: Obama's Nobel
What the hell is so hard to understand about this thing?
For fux sake; us, the rest of the world, feel uttermost relief in knowing that anyone from the Bush genepool is not in the helm of the notoriously warmongering country, which happens to have the biggest stack of nuclear weaponry in their cupboard.
What I find most funny is the republican reaction, that the rest of the world is making fun and/or disrespecting the whole nation with this Nobel prize.
When infact its the other way around; We were doing that for two presidental terms in a row, but now are genuinely applauding you for the complete reversal.
Personally, being a total misanthropist and pessimist, I feel that this is a fluke like the proverbial million monkeys typing and eventually creating the collected works of Shakespeare.
See the following video for voice of sanity on the subject of Obama Derangement Syndrome @ SchizoBlog.
For fux sake; us, the rest of the world, feel uttermost relief in knowing that anyone from the Bush genepool is not in the helm of the notoriously warmongering country, which happens to have the biggest stack of nuclear weaponry in their cupboard.
What I find most funny is the republican reaction, that the rest of the world is making fun and/or disrespecting the whole nation with this Nobel prize.
When infact its the other way around; We were doing that for two presidental terms in a row, but now are genuinely applauding you for the complete reversal.
Personally, being a total misanthropist and pessimist, I feel that this is a fluke like the proverbial million monkeys typing and eventually creating the collected works of Shakespeare.
See the following video for voice of sanity on the subject of Obama Derangement Syndrome @ SchizoBlog.
15/09 -09: Pieniä ongelmia
Saitti oli poissa verkosta viikonpäivät, pääsivät penteleet suttaamaan jotain ja koko saitti siis alas.
Ilmeisesti tästä on muutenkin hyvä aloittaa saitin siivoaminen, joten käyn sen tässä samalla läpi.
Ilmeisesti tästä on muutenkin hyvä aloittaa saitin siivoaminen, joten käyn sen tässä samalla läpi.
03/07 -09: Taas ne uskovaishihhulit sekoilee
Jumalaa ei luultavasti ole olemassa, joten nauti elämästäsi äläkä murehdi.
Mainoskampanja josta tuli hirveä haloo ja sitten telkkariin raahataan joku pelle kertomaan mistä asiassa oli kyse.
Kirkon ei kuulemma kannata huolestua eroamisista, koska "ateistien pitäisi järjestäytyä paremmin". WTF?!
Ja jotain paskaa sosiaalisten raamien leviämisesta, koska kirkko ei ole enää tärkeä... jumalauta että tollanen paska vituttaa. En jaksa ees ruveta kirjottamaan tästä muuta, kun että olipa harvinaisen turha ohjelma.
Jumala on/ei ole kuollut. Anna sen olla ja käytä omaa päätäsi.
Keskustelua ohjelmasta
Mainoskampanja josta tuli hirveä haloo ja sitten telkkariin raahataan joku pelle kertomaan mistä asiassa oli kyse.
Kirkon ei kuulemma kannata huolestua eroamisista, koska "ateistien pitäisi järjestäytyä paremmin". WTF?!
Ja jotain paskaa sosiaalisten raamien leviämisesta, koska kirkko ei ole enää tärkeä... jumalauta että tollanen paska vituttaa. En jaksa ees ruveta kirjottamaan tästä muuta, kun että olipa harvinaisen turha ohjelma.
Jumala on/ei ole kuollut. Anna sen olla ja käytä omaa päätäsi.
Keskustelua ohjelmasta
28/05 -09: The Places I've Been...
Kirith Kodachi of Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah came up with an interesting EVE Online meme today: “The Places I’ve Been”. The systems I have visited in EVE are shown as coloured dots in the image below.
As you can see I've mostly been in the Amarr space and there in Domain for the most part. I've been a bit further up during a alliance move which went bust, visited the Eve Gate which is a bit of touristy thing to do, some Jita shopping trips and a quick pop into Stain.
I think I need to take a better screenshot later tho...
If you want to post a similar image, just open up your map, click the Star Map tab and Color Stars by Systems I’ve visited under My Information.
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As you can see I've mostly been in the Amarr space and there in Domain for the most part. I've been a bit further up during a alliance move which went bust, visited the Eve Gate which is a bit of touristy thing to do, some Jita shopping trips and a quick pop into Stain.
I think I need to take a better screenshot later tho...
If you want to post a similar image, just open up your map, click the Star Map tab and Color Stars by Systems I’ve visited under My Information.
Hieman hämmentävä tapaus tämä Tapio B:n keissi, kirjoitus on hyvä ja siinä luetellaan hyviä ajatuksia mistä lähteä tätä piratismin ympärillä pyörivää ongelmaa purkamaan. Joten MikroBitti lopetti Tapiolta kolumnien ostamisen. Jännä juttu. Hyvin jännä.
Vapaahkon kulttuurin puolesta/ @ Piraattipuolueen blogi
Vapaahkon kulttuurin puolesta/ @ Piraattipuolueen blogi
04/05 -09: Roadburn 2009 - Teh Festival HUHU
It was really something and I'm now kicking myself in the ass for not doing everything so I could've gone on previous years aswell. I've been meaning to for something like 10 years now, so its not just one or two I missed.
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about it, we wrote a festival report to meteli.net in finnish, which interested parties can go and check out. Suffice to say it was a lot of fun and extremely draining to boot. 4 days of stoner rock, doom and metal is a lot, plus one has to stand and walk a lot so the legs were pretty shattered as well. Not to mention the booze et cetera that goes with festivals.
Flying back was a stinky, fearsome and painful event, which was the only negative I can think up or the whole ordeal.
Viikonloppu, jonka stoner- ja doom-fanit muistavat @ Meteli.netin Roadburn 2009 raportti
Images:
Roadburn 2009 by Juh0
Roadburn 2009 by Jugh
More stuff when they start popping online.
Music:
Roadburn 2009 playlist @ Spotify (music from artists on Roadburn 2009 festival, no more than 2 albums per band)
Roadburn 2009 first audio streams on line @ Roadburn blog
Videos:
Youtube search for Roadburn 2009, resulting in lots of videos.
EDIT: Added a link to the audio streams with live performances off the festival. More to come, I'm sure.
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about it, we wrote a festival report to meteli.net in finnish, which interested parties can go and check out. Suffice to say it was a lot of fun and extremely draining to boot. 4 days of stoner rock, doom and metal is a lot, plus one has to stand and walk a lot so the legs were pretty shattered as well. Not to mention the booze et cetera that goes with festivals.
Flying back was a stinky, fearsome and painful event, which was the only negative I can think up or the whole ordeal.
Viikonloppu, jonka stoner- ja doom-fanit muistavat @ Meteli.netin Roadburn 2009 raportti
Images:
Roadburn 2009 by Juh0
Roadburn 2009 by Jugh
More stuff when they start popping online.
Music:
Roadburn 2009 playlist @ Spotify (music from artists on Roadburn 2009 festival, no more than 2 albums per band)
Roadburn 2009 first audio streams on line @ Roadburn blog
Videos:
Youtube search for Roadburn 2009, resulting in lots of videos.
EDIT: Added a link to the audio streams with live performances off the festival. More to come, I'm sure.
I just realized that we have live material from all of the bands online for those that want to take a look. Some of the material is really good and sounds pretty decent, so you should get some of the vibes that we manages to create (with a little help from the bands, of course).
Psychotropic Caravan Festival channel at YouTube
Psychotropic Caravan Festival channel at YouTube
01/04 -09: Of Art and why it sometimes makes me sad...
One of my favourite bands, Ufomammut, is yet again at it. This time its a re-release of their album Snailking as a limited edition vinyl version. Whats typical for this band is that they are doing the artwork for the album themselves and it is looking really, REALLY, good. Now what you should know is that when I say "artwork themselves" I really mean that; They are creating the design, drawing and painting it, then transferring it to the printing screens and hand printing it on the sleeves and covers.
I dare you to look at the order page for the Snailking vinyl edition and scroll down to the pictures of them printing it.
Now, why this makes me sad is the fact that I don't have the money to order all of the great music + artwork packages I'd like. When they released the Idolum limited edition package, I just had to get it and good this that I did. But that one I could justify, since I didn't have the CD before hand (and the package had the double vinyl as well as the CD).
I dare you to look at the order page for the Snailking vinyl edition and scroll down to the pictures of them printing it.
Now, why this makes me sad is the fact that I don't have the money to order all of the great music + artwork packages I'd like. When they released the Idolum limited edition package, I just had to get it and good this that I did. But that one I could justify, since I didn't have the CD before hand (and the package had the double vinyl as well as the CD).
