Thursday, May 14, 2009
the difference between managers and engineers
it's the manager's job to find faults, it's the engineer's job to find solutions
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
our society sucks
The world we live in favours the rich. The rich gets to make more money and gets more benefits and discounts. The poor gets more interest, penalties and fines.
What I have unfortunately experienced is that if you cannot afford it or run into money problems you have to spend more. Late paying your house loans, they increase your interest rates. Late for anything else, gets fines.
Fucked up, totally unislamic.
What I have unfortunately experienced is that if you cannot afford it or run into money problems you have to spend more. Late paying your house loans, they increase your interest rates. Late for anything else, gets fines.
Fucked up, totally unislamic.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
nokia N73 is a piece of crap
yes, this phone is a piece of crap. do not buy or accept it as a gift. Dispose as soon as you get it.
I bought one for my wife, she complained and I offered to use it. After 3 days I wanted to smash it against the wall but I paid so much, 1700 for it that held me back. If I was well off I would smash it and save someone the agony of using it.
Here's why. The camera application takes forever to load. Over 60s is not uncommon. Not only that it resets itself several times before starting and frequently resets itself when trying to record video. I'm guessing it's out of memory but I only have 2 other things running, google maps and an antivirus. Sometimes I get fed up I just pull the battery out (since shutting down takes forever too). Restarting although >60s is faster than trying to fuck with the phone and getting it to work. If you want to get that sudden plane crash forget it, by the time you get the camera working it would have carshed and been cleaned up.
Another problem is the SMS messaging. Another SLOW application. When you press the 'show' option from the main screen it takes >30s to get there by which time the screen lock has kicked in and you have to enter the unlock code, what a frickin hassle. Even under normal circumstances its slow. Just to get to the message screen takes a while. By the time the phone is ready for input I've forgotten what I wanted to write!
Memory is another problem, 64Meg is not longer sufficient. Seems just the basic applications needs RAM memory, heaps of it. Seems the 'out of memory' error comes up too frequently. Unbelievable.
The web browser is another RAM memory HOG. After a couple of pages it complains that there is insufficient memory. And sometimes exits. Fucked up!
Apologies for the profanities but this phone is definitely not worth it, even for free. Borrow one first if you really want it. Try it for about 4 days.
Conclusion, get something better. Get a basic phone that works fast and get a separate digital camera.
I bought one for my wife, she complained and I offered to use it. After 3 days I wanted to smash it against the wall but I paid so much, 1700 for it that held me back. If I was well off I would smash it and save someone the agony of using it.
Here's why. The camera application takes forever to load. Over 60s is not uncommon. Not only that it resets itself several times before starting and frequently resets itself when trying to record video. I'm guessing it's out of memory but I only have 2 other things running, google maps and an antivirus. Sometimes I get fed up I just pull the battery out (since shutting down takes forever too). Restarting although >60s is faster than trying to fuck with the phone and getting it to work. If you want to get that sudden plane crash forget it, by the time you get the camera working it would have carshed and been cleaned up.
Another problem is the SMS messaging. Another SLOW application. When you press the 'show' option from the main screen it takes >30s to get there by which time the screen lock has kicked in and you have to enter the unlock code, what a frickin hassle. Even under normal circumstances its slow. Just to get to the message screen takes a while. By the time the phone is ready for input I've forgotten what I wanted to write!
Memory is another problem, 64Meg is not longer sufficient. Seems just the basic applications needs RAM memory, heaps of it. Seems the 'out of memory' error comes up too frequently. Unbelievable.
The web browser is another RAM memory HOG. After a couple of pages it complains that there is insufficient memory. And sometimes exits. Fucked up!
Apologies for the profanities but this phone is definitely not worth it, even for free. Borrow one first if you really want it. Try it for about 4 days.
Conclusion, get something better. Get a basic phone that works fast and get a separate digital camera.
Monday, September 1, 2008
enlightenment foundation library SUCKS
never thought I'd say it but it does.
Initially wanted to use Evas but the doco convinced me that Edje was what I wanted ... but ... all I got was that, documentation.
Evas used to have sample/test code, now it's gone. The 'edje' executable in the doc don't exist. WTF.
How the f**k can I QUICKLY experiment when I have to do so much exploration!
Please give us the test codes, or tell us where the f**k they are.
No wonder no-one uses it.
Initially wanted to use Evas but the doco convinced me that Edje was what I wanted ... but ... all I got was that, documentation.
Evas used to have sample/test code, now it's gone. The 'edje' executable in the doc don't exist. WTF.
How the f**k can I QUICKLY experiment when I have to do so much exploration!
Please give us the test codes, or tell us where the f**k they are.
No wonder no-one uses it.
Monday, June 16, 2008
direct wireless (ad-hoc) between OSX Tiger and windows
I was hoping to be able to network my PCs via wireless. Since I don't have enough money for a wireless switch I bought an Aztech USB wireless adapter. Unfortunately it was not an easy task (and I only get 11mbs from the ad-hoc network but that's another story).
It took quite a while tinkering to eventually stumble on a solution.
The problem was that the builtin Mac wireless was not able to join a network (not for me anyways). But eventually I got the windows PC to join the Mac network. Here's how I did it.
Ensure there is no network with the ID that you want to use eg 'booger'. I then create a new network connection via 'system preferences'.
Choose 'network' then 'network port configurations'
then create a new network based on airport
now choose the new network
manually set the ip address
now open the 'network status'
now select the new network and press connect
now create a new wireless network
now press the 'network:' tab and 'create network' then set an ad-hoc network name and add a password
now you can connect to it via windows.
you could now ping from the Mac or Windows assuming you don't have a restrictive firewall.
It took quite a while tinkering to eventually stumble on a solution.
The problem was that the builtin Mac wireless was not able to join a network (not for me anyways). But eventually I got the windows PC to join the Mac network. Here's how I did it.
Ensure there is no network with the ID that you want to use eg 'booger'. I then create a new network connection via 'system preferences'.
Choose 'network' then 'network port configurations'
then create a new network based on airport
now choose the new network
manually set the ip address
now open the 'network status'
now select the new network and press connect
now create a new wireless network
now press the 'network:' tab and 'create network' then set an ad-hoc network name and add a password
now you can connect to it via windows.
you could now ping from the Mac or Windows assuming you don't have a restrictive firewall.
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