Well, it only works with Sony-Ericsson phones (and the newer ones at that), and it has a steep price tag (€300). but it is a really nifty toy. It’s just a shame that I got another watch for Christmas. Rveview at Mobile Review.
Subversion for the oblivious (svn)
I’m a big fan of source code control systems. They help you not shoot yourself in the foot when making changes and it is an essential part of any form of development. Heck, it even comes in handy for managing changes to configuration files.
Solaris ships with SCCS, the source code control system for pretty much all forms of unix. It’s a file based source control system, and is used as the binder for other products such as teamware.
On Linux there’s rcs for file based source code control and then there’s CVS or Subversion for the remote repository work.
Subversion really beats the pants off CVS for features that make it more sensible. If you’ve ever tried to move a file in CVS you know what I mean.
This is a travesty of musical taste
It’s the Star Wars Christmas album. A friend asked me to get it for her as some form of present. I’m just about to experience it for myself. The review from i-mockery may be the the definitive explanation of this really terrible piece of tripe. For indeed, I have got to the start of the first track and my heart is hurting from the sheer horrific intensity of it.
I saw the Bond movie and believe me, getting tortured like he was is probably preferable to listening to the frelling album. Well at least I can console myself with having the entirety of farscape to see over the holidays.
debian makes life more realistic
It’s very simple really. Ubuntu uses dash as the default shell for executing init scripts as it is faster (there’s less overhead). dash is, of course the debian almquist shell, which is a bourne shell compatible shell. Not bourne again, but simply bourne, this means that features such as [[ are not present (see a previous blog entry for a complaint about that). We all like the fast boot, but it kinda breaks Makefiles that assume sh == bash (ieeee80211.sf.net, ipw3945.sf.net).
I’m too used to writing makefiles under Solaris to use features that are not present in the original bourne shell.
Daft translation
We’ll forgo the usual straight from the property pages lines and go for a couple that I find humourous.
First there’s ‘easygoing’. This one really means that we’re a bunch of stoners.
Then there’s ‘Professionals only’. This usually translates to we don’t need no steenking students. Let’s be honest, they tend to leave a mess (see previous point).
We have ‘neat’, which is another term for anal-retentive enough to follow yourself around with a disinfectant wipe.
Would not suit couple… It’s too small to fit even one person; I mean get real here, look at the price.
No couples… They tend to piss single people off with all their lovey dovey stuff.
Appointments will be made with the most suitable people… Look at me, I’m lazy and I’m just clinging to the little bit of power I have.
Enough of the bitterness. I’m calling a letting agency 🙂
Samsung… what kind of crap is that UI?
My sister bought my Aunt a mobile phone. Dear god but it is such an unusable piece of crap. It reminds me of the worst things about the phone I first bought, but thought were really cool at the time. For example finding someone in the phonebook. Using a Nokia, Sony Ericsson all you do is tap the down arrow and you’re browsing the phone book. No, apparently that is initially bound to ‘voice memo’. Oops, you think, I’d better get out of that… it forces you to navigate back from where you are to the main menu. Time to look up a number using the non-intuitive ‘phonebook’. Click. I’m looking at a menu asking me if I want to Search, Add an entry…. For crying out loud, the most common use of the phonebook is to look for numbers, so make that the default phonebook action.
Well, I may as well change the down shortcut to browse the phonebook. No such luck, there’s no option to allow you to do that. The menus are a mess, there’s no other way to get to the phone book except through the front end. The center button is bound to make an internet connection (which given fat fingers will become really expensive).
Non intuitive, poorly designed piece of dreck. I won’t even mention the model number. It makes my heart hurt that this was a gift for a 70+ year old who has a hard enough time using her phone in the first place.
Sony get a thumbs up for the little gift I received in the post
I was looking for a case for the UMDs for the PSP. Could not find one anywhere unless I bought a complete hard-shell case for the box. I got back to the house and there was a small present from Sony – a case for holding 5 UMD’s. What a nice Christmas present, it put a smile on my face (and another on my case as I don’t have to carry around all those UMD boxes.
Carol of the Old Ones
It’s a carol for the old ones. Brilliant, need to post it to some other folks…
It’s Beginning to look a lot like fishmen
I love it. Very funny and fits well in the time
That’s just a little too scary
You too can have a USB pole dancer for Christmas. Let’s be honest, it’s not serious, it’s just plain silly.