My old mobile phone becomes a bit unreliable, so I look for a new one. Perhaps a smart phone would be useful, but I’m not interested in proprietary and virus prone OSes without available source code and lacking good development tools and community support. Given these constraints there are at most two options: Google Android…
It’s very common: Someone claims and discusses a fact and makes conclusions from it without checking the fact first and without knowing its context. Even when it is easy to check and to get to understand. And with false facts one can prove anything, especially what he likes to prove. Well, we all do mistakes.…
I’ve recently experienced root file system loss. This happened after my keyboard had stopped functioning due to a hardware problem and I had turned off the computer by the power button. Apparently some random process had happened on the disk and while most data survived the file system as a whole was seriously damaged and…
Software patents make serious danger to all computer users, software developers and generally anybody who has something to do with computers and computing devices. I’m not going to elaborate on that topic here, you can find information about it e.g. on the web pages of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. The important thing is…
There are people, creatures, objects, ideas, etc. we like and there are people, creatures, objects, ideas, etc. we don’t like so much. There is basically nothing wrong with it. Those luckier of us can choose whether they prefer rice or potatoes for dinner today and that’s fine. The problem appears when we make and present…
There are two nice anniversaries in the end of this year. The first one was 50 years of Lisp and the second one is going to be 15 years of Linux on my desktop computers. Lisp was the second (after FORTRAN) real higher level programming language. During the years Lisp has brought many important pioneering…
After very long time I’ve finally found how to make my two USB keyboards and mice accessible under constant file system names. Here is the trick: ACTION!=”add|change”, GOTO=”keymouse_end” SUBSYSTEMS==”usb”, ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}==”03″, ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}==”01″, ENV{ID_CLASS}=”kbd” KERNEL==”mouse*”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”0067″, SYSFS{idVendor}==”0458″, SYMLINK+=”input/mouse-genius” KERNEL==”event*”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”0067″, SYSFS{idVendor}==”0458″, ENV{ID_CLASS}==”kbd”, SYMLINK+=”input/keyboard-genius” KERNEL==”mouse*”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”071d”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”045e”, SYMLINK+=”input/mouse-ms” KERNEL==”event*”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”071d”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”045e”, ENV{ID_CLASS}==”kbd”, SYMLINK+=”input/keyboard-ms” LABEL=”keymouse_end” I can boot without…
I’ve always wondered how it is possible that Americans elected GWB president, even twice. I start to understand it after the recent elections in our country. Combination of irrational arguments, misleading promises, fear and odd faces makes the trick. Apparently it works everywhere.
Two years ago I filed a complaint against one of the worst Czech spammers, “Hotel u Lípy”. Then nothing happened and I didn’t expect too much, reading stories that those spammers exploit a loophole in Czech antispam law. To my surprise I’ve received an answer from The Office for Personal Data Protection today. They notify…
Enough is enough. Telefónica O2 has lost another customer and I hope this hasn’t been the last one. The company has annoyed me with their marketing practices for several years. Their dealers bother us at our home with offers we didn’t ask for nor are interested in. Moreover those people are often just stupidly assertive…