Openstreetmap has a problem... and a rather fundamental one. Saving all data in WGS-84 is nice and simple... but continents actually move. And that's why different countries use different coordinate systems. Australia moves a lot... cnet.com/.../australia-has-moved-1-5m Good thing is that we could map ships with that support. I guess there are ( Read more... )

So I configured scroll-lock & pause to select volume up/down. Works well so far. I also remapped workplace switching to F1-F12 (without alt). Works well so far, as I switch workplaces a lot, and nothing really uses F1-F10.

Ouch, and for czech readers... UCW keyboard lives. Mate (== gnome2), in layouts add Czech Czech (UCW layout...), a v optionech ( Read more... )

Ok, so they are 4 keys on my keyboard I know absolutely no use of: "wakeup" key -- when any key wakes machine up, "power" key, which just duplicates "sleep" key, "scroll lock" and "pause". The first two are slightly non-standard, but surely there should be some use for scroll lock and pause in X (those are present even on notebook)? But it seems ( Read more... )

Ok, this is scary: tor browser on https://browserprint.info/test -- "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 8,440 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 13.04 bits of identifying information."

I have both N9 and N950 here. Unfortunately, both are useless, as developer mode can not be enabled (because Nokia servers are down?).

There's tutorial -- how to install Sailfish. I'd love that. Neccessary images for N9 are no longer available. N950 images are still there, but... tutorial needs developer mode, and that's no longer possible.
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Microsoft broke my father's computer: it made him update to Windows 10, when Windows 10 can not use two of 3 USB ports. Ouch.
Now it seems Google is trying to break my LG E720 cellphone. I did the right steps: it is running Cyanogen. One method is "we have great update for google Talk". Unfortunatelly, update is 20MB or more, basically filling ( Read more... )

So I updated debian on my N900, because having different version on phone and PC sucks.
It booted, after I added "rw" to kernel command line, which is small miracle.
But X are without usable mouse, without panel, and without reasonable keymap. In particular, I don't have numbers, or any symbols besides ',.<>'. But I have root shell. Now I need to ( Read more... )

idnes.cz: they put moving advertisment on that their web, making browsers unusable -- they eat 100% CPU and pages lag when scrolling. They put video ads inside text that appear when you scroll. They have video ads including audio...  (Advertisment for olympic games is particulary nasty, Core Duo, it also raises power consumption by like 30W). Then ( Read more... )

Dear Facebook. I'm aware that your Facebook lite is only 1MB. It is also dangerous spyware. You try to push it to me every time I attempt to use m.facebook.com. Would not it be nice if you avoided pushing your spyware to phones that can not handle it? Yes, that's right, your spyware requires too new android, so my phone is actually immune from it.
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Ivaylo Dimitrov got camera to work on N900. Great. Unfortunately... there's works and works.
Working /dev/video* devices does not mean you get useful photos easily. I managed to get flash and autofocus hardware to work... But that still does not mean useful photos.
It seems that ( Read more... )