Yahoo vs. Google

An interesting read.

Neo1973

Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon.

A small exerpt:

FIC's approach in sponsoring the OpenMoKo project resembles that taken by Nokia, which finances a "Maemo" software development community for its 770 Internet Tablet. Moss-Pultz acknowledges, "I have to give mad props to Nokia. I just think it's a shame [the 770] is not a phone."

Code of Ethics

I'm going through ACM's Software Engineering Code of Ethics. It is a bit tough, but this is what we should strive for...

Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

An iteresting read. I battle with those ideas every day :)

iPhone

What can I say? Apple is cool. They manage to sell iPods at three times the price of similar mp3 players. And people keep buying them!
The iPhone will be in the same price category as the Nokia N75, although the exclusive deal with Cingular suggests massive operator subsidizing.

It will be interesting to watch what success Apple has with this. Lately, everything they touched turned gold. And also, it will be interesting to watch the phone giants responding.

Now, for something completely different

fedora problems

I cannot update my fedora anymore. It can download the repository files, but cannot download the actual rpms. Chicken-and-egg problem is, I have no ethereal installed :)

OK, downloading it from the repo by hand was easy...

Nokia N800

I can talk about it now, since it is out in the stores in the US.

This gadget has the highest coolness factor of all Nokia products. No skype, but there is Google Talk.

google hack won't work

unfortunately. I should've thought. Mail forwarding is not the same as mail relaying. The gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com server won't accept myaddress@tegla.net emails, even though it is set up to send in that name.

Fortunately, godaddy gives a free mail account for my domain registration, and I set up gmail to download from its POP server.

email address?

My next project is creating an email address without actually having to rent a virtual linux, or paying someone for email hosting.

Where to point the MX record? The host has to accept RCPT-TO: myemail@tegla.net

I have to look around. Gmail accepts mail forwarding from other accounts. If I can trick it to act as my mail relay, I'm done.

new domain name

I've got my own domain name. In the old days, when I was sysadmining (like, 7, 8 years ago), it was complicated. Now, I registered the domain, paid for it, got a nameserver, set up a cname record for the blog in under 10 minutes. And it costs 9 dollars a year. Why didn't I use godaddy then?

Why SOAP sucks

Just found this. Right out of my mouth. Back then it took me about a day to go from "wow, cool" to "this sucks".

New year, new blog

Ok, it seems to imply I had an "old" blog, but what the heck. I only make this to talk to myself, so who cares anyho'