Category Archives: ICT

Ravings about ICT

Crazy Tech Ideas, part 1

Posted on 2008-11-09 (Sunday) by myrtti

Thoughts from the past week, random links and random ideas to follow. If none of these tickle your brain, I’m sorry. 1) Installing applications to my phone was previously something I really hated. I remember how horrible it was trying … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Symbian60v3 (Nokia N95), SIP and ekiga.net

Posted on 2008-10-06 (Monday) by myrtti

Finally VoIP craze hit me. I’ve had Skype account for ages, ekiga.net account for about a year, and a Nokia N95 for about a year also. I knew it is possible to configure my phone into using SIP, but never … Continue reading →

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O HAI! I CAN HAZ LULZ?!

Posted on 2008-09-25 (Thursday) by myrtti

cats + humour + geekyness + lolcats = lamdbacats. I don’t have cats, so…

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“OK, who’s bright idea was this?” -meme

Posted on 2008-09-20 (Saturday) by myrtti

I can’t be blamed for this, srsly. Sorry folks. Blame Og Maciel. Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with … Continue reading →

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Nerdier Into The Groove?

Posted on 2008-09-16 (Tuesday) by myrtti

this is definitely going into the OMGLOL -category of things! So many years ago I used to play typera, a game in which you had to type words scrolling on your terminal screen as fast as you could. I’ve also … Continue reading →

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Forest friends

Posted on 2008-09-12 (Friday) by myrtti

a “recent” meme via Maco: I’ve had three major naming schemes with my ICT appliance/hardware. First one started on 2003, with my first computer resurrected as a home server. It was named as pingu, for its penguin soul and also … Continue reading →

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I love (easter) eggs!

Posted on 2008-09-04 (Thursday) by myrtti

I just found out that my shell provider has been kind enough to compileinstall screen, geeks best friend, compiled with the flag NETHACK(ref)! Hilarious! {“No other window.”, “You cannot escape from window %d!”}, {“Detach aborted.”, “The blast of disintegration whizzes … Continue reading →

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Dear LazyWeb: libnotify + Google Reader?

Posted on 2008-08-26 (Tuesday) by myrtti

I’ve tried a gazillion feed readers. I’ve used Liferea, yarssr, rssowl, irssi-rss, gdesklets… As I’m a fairly mobile person (and in this case mobility can mean anything from shifting from using desktop computer to laptop computer to using only mobile … Continue reading →

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If I really knew how to code…

Posted on 2008-08-22 (Friday) by myrtti

I’d fix gnabblet.sis (an application used on Symbian60 phones to patch their lack of support for FBUS) to work on Symbian60v3 I’d add GNU/Gettext support to gwibber and fix the Facebook bug I’d code a decent IRC client for Symbian60v3 … Continue reading →

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From the “I feel like a Great Ancient One” department

Posted on 2008-08-13 (Wednesday) by myrtti

2 dl coconut milk ¼ dl sugarbeet flakes ¼ dl flaxseed 2 dl water 2 eggs flour to reach desired consistency (~2 dl) butter for frying jam, jelly, marmelade, syrup, sugar, sweetening OR savory filling of choice (mine: strawberry-rhubarb jam) … Continue reading →

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