Category Archives: ICT

Ravings about ICT

California Dreamin’, release 1.2.1 (LCS2010, MeeGo workshop videos)

Posted on 2010-06-14 (Monday) by myrtti

As promised earlier, I’ve now published four of the sessions from Linux Collaboration Summit 2010 which was held in San Francisco in April. They’re viewable in blip.tv, and I’ve decided to follow the licensing Linux Foundation itself has for the … Continue reading →

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California Dreamin’, release 1.2 (Linux Collaboration Summit, day 2)

Posted on 2010-05-14 (Friday) by myrtti

The second day of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit started with breakfast and scoping out the possible talks to attend to. Many of the talks looked interesting, but I wandered to the MeeGo workgroup room according to my original plan … Continue reading →

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California Dreamin’, release 1.1 (Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, day 1)

Posted on 2010-05-14 (Friday) by myrtti

I’ve got plenty to tell about my experiences of our two month trip to Silicon Valley, but I’ll start with telling about the conferences and events I’ve attended. I’ll start the story with the most important and the biggest one, … Continue reading →

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Dear (software) Santa

Posted on 2009-12-10 (Thursday) by myrtti

I know I’ve been a naughty girl this year, but I’ve honestly tried to be nice and good. If you don’t mind too much, could you skip on the coal and bring me: a better audiobook player for Linux than … Continue reading →

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After Work Beer

Posted on 2009-07-14 (Tuesday) by myrtti

Last Sunday I decided to /quit IRC for a while. I’m on almost two weeks of summer vacation, and since I nowadays feel I am in IRC mainly because of my work in Finnish Summercode for COSS, being on vacation … Continue reading →

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So how do you pronounce that?

Posted on 2009-06-13 (Saturday) by myrtti

I’ve been around IRC since May 1995, using my current nickname from around early days of 1998 or so, and around Ubuntu community since February 2005, and the times I’ve been asked how I pronounce my nickname are so many … Continue reading →

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Music for the masses

Posted on 2009-05-21 (Thursday) by myrtti

I’ve been quite active lately in Qaiku, a Finnish microblogging site built on open source platform that tries to do microblogging better than Twitter and even the relative “Mother” of it, Jaiku. Lately there’s been lots of buzz about a … Continue reading →

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When have you last changed you password (and is it complex enough)?

Posted on 2009-04-09 (Thursday) by myrtti

I’ve had a policy of changing most of my passwords every 60 days since 2003 or so. This has made generating passwords I can remember an artform. Some people swear on pwgen, while I always brew my own. Here’s how … Continue reading →

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ALD09: Better late than never: thanks to @kathysierra

Posted on 2009-03-25 (Wednesday) by myrtti

Ada Lovelace Day of 2009 was yesterday and I scratched my head trying to figure out who of the female geeks I’d value in so much I’d mention them in my blogpost. Then today I shuffled through my old pictures … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: sync s60v3 phone to Google Calendar and make backups of contacts/calendar/notes (in Ubuntu/Linux)

Posted on 2009-03-25 (Wednesday) by myrtti

I’ve used a SyncML capable phone since May 2006. SyncML is a great way to synchronize my phone and some of its data to outside sources. I also try to put all my events and happening to my calendar either … Continue reading →

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