Linux is here

Yes, it has been adventurous autumn and sure economy is jumping. But one thing is stabilizing in now and it's Linux. Have you seen Linux in place, where you have seen symbian before. I've heard a story.

Summer is gone

It's been incredibly nice summer, lot's of things were happening and my computing has stabilized to all linux platforms in work and in home. I have also noticed that whole family of us is totally in Linux, our last windows laptop got broken months ago and every one is on Linux now.

Asus Eee PC has a place with my kids, while I am personally relying to Panasonic CF-W7 and HP 6710b with ubuntu and kubuntu. Wife is also happy with she's linux laptop.

Balmer; find your linux distro soon, clouds are disapearing :)

PS3: incredible!

Today I jumped right into darkness and bought PS3 unit. I was unsure how it would turn out, but in short words; incredible!

Setup was breeze, cables attaching and fire up could not be easier. System updates for PS3 and PSP were fast and worked flawlessly. I also bought MSG4 and GT5 prologue and extra sixaxis controller and after first try outs of those two games were really something I have not seen before. Especially MSG4 was astonishing, I've been into such details in game before. I hardly cannot wait to get my turn with PS3.

Because I lost battle with my daughters, they are utilizing PS3 and tvkaista.fi service now in fully. This combination would be something I will make noise in future, since I just paid 108 € for a year for having right to own TV, but Yle has not been able to serve me like tvkaista.fi and now with PS3, I really see IP-television arrival in our living room.

So with PS3, we are able to watch every program broadcasted with in two week (here in Finland) in our primary television set, when ever we want. Stay tuned, this will turn out nice.

E71 - Finaly right

Acquired E71 for company use and noticed that Nokia has got this piece of art finally right. Maybe they have learned lessons with E90 and polished things out of way before releasing it.

It makes instant feeling for me, that I should replace my E90 with this one. They should have warned me, because it has everything as in E90, except the size. This thing is small.

Looking forward to read user experiences and heard from peoples, how it's working for them before making any fast moves. But still...

Symbian and Nokia

Hmm, I though that Nokia was moving towards Linux with speed, but it seems that I was little bit off with that. They announced those plans with Symbian and open source, so it will be partly right what I was hoping. Good and open environment for development is in their sights.

But still, I hope that Linux would penetrate much more with mobiles. Symbian is so difficult and I wonder would it be too late to have this kind of approach changes? I recognize some similarity in this way of Nokias reactions to my day time job (which is governmental) , where everything which happens is because some one is pushing you. Not because you want to be active by yourself.

I have seen this kind of reactions a lot from Nokia, starting from clamshell phones, qwerty-models, GPS, touch screens, openness etc. They are all the things which some one else seemed to get lead at first, but which were announced with delay from Nokia also.

Small things make the summer

Small is beautiful. Like this combination of N810 and Asus Eee PC. Today I spent 5 minutes with Asus Eee PC and Nokia E90, just to make sure that I could use E90 as a dial up connection. I worked nicely, I just followed some detailed instruction and I was running in no time.

I also did some experiment with maemo mapper, it has really grown a lot. I managed to get NLS maps, among google and others. I really like that application. Then I spent couple of hours at our new office, just to build infrastructure ready. I managed to setup SMF forum and Zoneminder for video surveillance, so things are getting ready soon.

It seems that with N810 and Asus, I am again in situation where I consider that big E90 thing. Is it too much for me, since now I can access most of things with these two small ones. Who knows :)

Business analyzing

Mid summer here in Finland. Sky is dark, clouds are low and city is empty. So it would be perfect time to issue some analyzing for economy related issues. I just read from news that Nokia is lacking new models, compared to other manufactures. I personally bet that this has something to do with already announced Linux presence in Nokia devices. Why build up history, when you could build future?

So, let there be lot's of new Linux spirit in Nokia and good challenge from Google and other Linux vendors. And remember, gaming consoles and ICT should be bought from different firms :)