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I’ve been using TrueCrypt from quite a long time now. I’ve always been impressed by its ease of use and, most important, the chance to use it both on Window$ and GNU/Linux systems, bot desktop and server/remote systems.

So, when version 5.0 was released a couple weeks ago I was excited about the new release. One of the most interesting features was the disappearance of the kernel modulo, no need to recompile it after any kernel upgrade! :)

But, there’s always a “but” laying around, the happiness vanished pretty soon! :(

First of all I discovered that even to sue text mode GTK libraries are required. Why should I have unneeded garbage on a server? Who knows. Then came out that tou cannot create encrypted containers from command line (no -c option) which definitely killed any hope to use it on a remote system.

So basically I now have 2 choices: keep using 4.3a version (compiled from sources, since .deb package oddly enough seems to be Ubuntu only, and not working on my Debian Etch boxes) or move to another encrypted filesystem (LUKS? perhaps).

What I’d love to ask to TC developers is: how can you do such a dumb move? :|

I’ve just finished configuring new servers (Fennel, Cabbage and Chicory), that’s partially why I wasn’t updating blog as oftern as I used. By the way, this will basically means more bandwidth to be wasted ;)  It took a while to find the right ISP, and after some tests with both italian providers I ended moving to oversea: ~10 times the bandwidth for about the half the price. Isn’t that nice? :D

In the mid and short term this will allow to start a couple new project I was thinking about since quite a long time. So, stay tuned!

Right after a few hours of use, web browser on N810 became pretty slow while loading, hanging for about 10 seconds while launching (Bug 2753). I had the same problem on N800, but I thought it was because of my experiments ;). But now I am on a fresh install. I’m still trying to trace where the problem comes from. In the meantime I found a quick (and dirty) workaround:

1. Close your browser
2. Rename /home/user/.mozilla folder to something else
3. Restart your browser

Note that at this point all your stored browser settings will be removed.

Updates will follow, if you have comments please also rememeber to update bug report. Thank you.

Ok, quite a long time since my last post! But new year brought me some good news.

I finally got my coupon working and received the N810 (woah!) and moved from the N800+E90 duo to N810+N95-8GB.

I’ve been playing around with N810 in the past two days and, yes, I’ve to confess that I’m pretty impressed by it.
Even if just a little smaller it is more comfortable to hold in my hands, and also it now perfectly fits the NDS-Lite holster (who the hell decided N810’s pouch colors?!).

N810’s keyboard is pretty nice, and once you get used to it writing speed isn’t that bad. Just I’d prefer to have ‘ instead of ~ right on the keyboard, instead having to use “chr”+screen. Not a big issue (also thank to autocompletion), I’ll fix it using xmodmap.

Stay tuned!

(posted using N810)

This was supposed to be a comment to my post about alternatives to Matchbox on ITs but, folks, such a great news can’t be relegated in comment! Drums rolling, please… Penguinbait is going to relase KDE 3.5.8! :D

Development of KDE for Nokia has begun again!!!

I currently have a working copy of FULL KDE 3.5.8 with Koffice and CUP printing support. I know I said I was not going to further develop KDE, but I was wrong!! Happily I was wrong. This is way better than the original. Have Fun…

Anyone wanting to test, PM me at internettablettalk.com I am working on final version and will release once My n810 is in hand. It runs on 2008OS both n800/810 — Sorry 770 users!!

I’ll try give it a try as soon as possible and post my comments.

And BIG thank you to Penguinbait!

I’m trying, trust me, I’m hardly trying to understand Nokia marketing guys. But I really can’t understand how the take decisions. I just found (thanx to Giskard) that N810 is available and in stock on UK’s Nokia Shop. I know, Nokia is a big company, and things like that. But, as I already asked some time ago, do they have a/any strategy? For sure they have to, that would only be nice to understand it ;).

I’d also be happy to know when italian users will be able to order their new long-awaited new toy :)

Edit: I was not complaining. I just can’t understand how Nokia (and again, not Maemo) is taking decisions about marketing. My thoughts weren’t related to discount codes. I just can’t see a clear plot in announcing a product, then releasing it somewhere, then put it on hold, and then release here and there. That’s it.

One word review: “great!” Ok, was it too short? :D

I just installed updated FM Radio software and, folks, we’ve got another great piece of software here. FM Radio was a great deal on N800 already, but here we have a couple brand new features which really make this application a must-to-install-as-soon-as-possibile! :)

1: now you can use FM Radio as you alarm clock! Something I was really, really, really missing.

2: (doh! I never noticed this was already available on OS2007! :-) ) using radio station list downloader you can easily download tuning presets for your town! (select nation -> select region -> select town -> DONE!) So, no more nights spent trying to figure out which station you are listening at! :)

This morning I gave a look at shop.nokia.it, you know, just in case. ;)

 

By the way, the price shown for N800 was 309€. “Damn! They raised the price!” was my first thought.

This evening I decided to give another look and… guess? The price went back to 289€! Again, which game are Nokia marketing guys playing? ;)

(Posted using MsemoWordPy)

One of the most common complaints (beside not being a phone :-D ) about Internet Tablets is not being good a PIM. Perhaps Garnet will (soon) bring P3 (Palm PIM Power) to Maemo platform. In the meantime, have we got any solution at hand? Yes? No? Perhaps?

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