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 I do mine (but with an imaginary example ;-):
Pick a song of your favorite artist. [...]
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 by the phone itself or by Google Calendar. I’ve subscribed to several Internet calendars in [...]
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 really bothered. I’ve been fighting with my laptop for a while now, and while I [...]
Once upon a time I was a teenager with lots of idle time and angst and will to do pretty things in my life. Those were the times I didn’t yet own a computer – the computer at home concept got me when I was already 18. Ever since I was a kid I loved [...]
I can’t remember anymore have I blogged about my deep and utterly incomprehensible love towards my phone, Nokia N95. If I have, I apologize. If I haven’t, may I do so? Oh never mind, I will anyway.
Nokia N95 is a LOVERLY phone. I couldn’t have picked a better one to serve my needs. It has [...]
I got a new phone, as stated earlier, and I got a new memorycard for it. Now I can download huge amounts of podcasts and listen to them with my phone. replace ff:ee:dd:cc:bb:aa with your phone’s mac address, Memorycard as the directory of your choice to store your podcasts and and configure gammu properly.
if you’ve got software raid on xubuntu:
sudo nano /usr/bin/procmdstat
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
clear
date
cat /proc/mdstat
sleep 60
done
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/procmdstat
Add a program to launch at session startup:
xfce4-terminal –hide-borders –hide-menubar –hide-toolbar
–title “RAID-monitor” –geometry 70×20-30+30 –execute
/usr/bin/procmdstat
