]> http://blog.janik.cz ... what is he doing? en-us Pavel 2010-07-31T12:56:43+02:00 http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2010/05/16/T21_26_35/ 2010-05-16T21:26:35+02:00 Pavel Mobile technologies
I've spent a week with it. Few moments with Windoze to realize I'm now able to use it (OK, not a surprise, I knew it before) ;-)

Here are some notes about the machine and about my tries with openSUSE 11.2 on it.

BIOS - insyde. No documentation, no user guide, nothing about the computer. Ten minutes trying to get there. Eventually found it (F1 or F2, don't know which one). PXE works. It also boots from USB! I was not able to test booting from SD - would be very killer app for me!

Trying openSUSE 11.2. When the download finished, I remember I have a boxed version on my desk 8)

Too many typos in the Czech version. (E.g. famous "dispaly" which I IMO already reported few years ago...). The combination of English and Czech is strange.

NetworkManager - still issues, unusable (listing hidden networks as Insecure even where it has WPA2 password stored etc...), slow compared to the ifup approach. I'm back with ifup, because I just want to use the system, not hack around all bugs in it.

Reboot doesn't reboot. The system halts, doesn't power off, and drains the battery/Temelin. Ups.

KDE in Czech is half Czech, too many English strings there, sometimes intermixed which is funny (Add vs. Upravit)...

I wanted to save some disk space (USB mass storage now because I want to test both environments there), thus I want to delete OOo. It is almost impossible. YaST interface for handling RPM packages is almost unusable, dependency hell also doesn't help.

What works and is a surprise to me? Close the lid, it suspends. Correctly. At least suspend to RAM. Suspend to disk doesn't work. You can't save more than 1 GB of RAM into 512 MB even when compressing... OK, someone has to warn the user somewhere in the process. Not that easy, I think. And I have to buy more memory and reshuffle the swap/partitioning anyway.

Volume keys work too (+, -, Mute)! Brightness keys don't work (already reported bug in Qt/KDE). I can fix the brightness using the Power manager GUI (ie. to Xtreme Powersave) though.

Firefox in full screen rocks on the display. Very sharp and clear display!

Camera and microphone works perfectly in Skype.

SD cards work perfectly (after inserting the card, KDE wants me to decide if I want to open digikam or file manager to the volume).

I'll add more notes later.]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2010/04/23/T23_36_24/ 2010-04-23T23:36:24+02:00 Pavel OpenOffice.org
For me and my builds, it means that for every new milestone, I'll save approx 200MB of the download for every build, because I cache all tarballs on every machine between builds.

The author of this feature is Ause, who is (and always was!) very helpful when I didn't wanted to spend my time reading the source ;-) This time, he was my guide to this feature as well, without him, I'd be still looking for configure option --with-external-tar.

OK, OK. bootstrap phase finished.

The build brought several new things. Well, I wanted to try this build which means I have to finish the build first on all of my architectures (limited to Linux 32 and 64bits and Mac OS X/x86). And as you know me, I'll report all things I do not like on my way to this (this is what people around me in my business life do not like on me - when they are on the other side - and like about me - when I'm on their side ;-).

I realized several problems during builds, some WaE issues, localize issue (which reminded me that I had to test and verify Ivo's fix for it). I had to update our translation files to DEV300_m77 and report all Oraclisms in the strings I could find (OEM version, evaluation version etc.). I wonder who "designed" some string changes... One of them is very interesting. In the past, we allowed OOo to send some info to Sun to help improving OOo. Now we allow OOo to send some info to Oracle to help *Oracle* improving OOo. Sometimes, less is more...

And then, the build finished. Almost. Thanks to Vladimir, I was even able to checkdeliver the build.

Then I was able to automatically repeat all builds from scratch with my build system, merge all languages and upload all builds (27 GB).

And now, after I bothered almost all members of Hamburg RE ;-), I finally see IT.

I have to say I like the new light UI design. Several people wrote that they do not like it, but I like it. Maybe the rounded logo could contain the whole (down) wings, but I can understand the currect status is wanted by its author.

But before finally enjoying it, I had to report two additional issues - I do not see background image in cs dmg and after I manually found the image in the DMG, I had to report one small white-red rectangle with some letters on it. Hmm, I was not fast enough to get #i111111# :-(

Then I was able to see the initial screen on which one can selected what he wants to do - open the text document, sheet etc. I was even able to highlight two such things at the moment (see #i111117#).

DEV300_m77 definitely feels faster and lighter for me (compared to OOO320_m12 which I currectly have on my desktop).]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/12/21/T21_49_28/ 2009-12-21T21:49:28+02:00 Pavel Internet technologies years ago, I started short series of my anti-Itanium blog entries.

I have to admit I was not very good future-visionary then, because after five years and two days, there are still companies who still only plan to drop Itanium support (RedHat) and there even are companies who do not even plan to do so 8) OMG who and why pays those people?]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/12/16/T20_50_13/ 2009-12-16T20:50:13+02:00 Pavel OpenOffice.org three years ago, we were in Lyon, testing the taste of various different flavours of beer^H^H^H^Hpepsi, cola etc.

Today's newspaper contains an article (you can get the full copy of the article at their web) about Coca-Cola Blák's "success" I predicted three years ago. Interesting thing is, that people collect (even empty) bottles. Maybe CoCo's normal bottles are too boring.

And I did not drink coffee that time... Now I'm big lover of good coffee (with milk though). Morning cappuccino (I love Dulsao!) while reading daily magazines...

Other interesting thing is that for me, the various flavours of Pepsi are more tasty (is it really worth the Wikipedia page? ;-). I still remember Pepsi Gold.

Back to work and late newspaper reading ;-)]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/07/16/T23_21_17/ 2009-07-16T23:21:17+02:00 Pavel Work, Internet technologies
If you understand Czech, you can hear it yourself.

This is as usual: computer specialists tell you that STRONG passwords are not strong enough (everyone has full mouth of PKI) and normal people tell you, that it is too difficult even now. Someone has to find more secure, portable and very easy solution. Brain-authentication, Brain-MAC ;-) But then, people from TV Nova will find someone who can't enjoy the game then 8)]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/03/27/T21_22_49/ 2009-03-27T21:22:49+02:00 Pavel Work Czech POINT was officially opened (link)! Too long ago to rememeber. Thanks goes to AK for reminding me.

2 years of my life. It started as a wild idea to help Czech people, to bring authorities closer to them. Now there are 3528 places with Czech POINTs, 1400000+ produced listings. You can see the logo of the project on many postal offices, many municipal offices. You can even see some billboards with the light blue logo!]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/03/07/T18_52_27/ 2009-03-07T18:52:27+02:00 Pavel OpenOffice.org #i100000# was filed into OOo's IssueZilla.]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/01/24/T09_30_28/ 2009-01-24T09:30:28+02:00 Pavel Work
What I call crisis is that people call everything crisis.

But to be in line with everyone else, I think that Czech computer services are in crisis. This night is a very good example of this crisis. The official web of Ministry of Justice doesn't work, the official web of I.CA (one of authorized certification authorities in our country) doesn't work etc.

Or is this normal? That would be REAL crisis!]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2009/01/14/T17_42_52/ 2009-01-14T17:42:52+02:00 Pavel Private 40 days ago! Is it THAT difficult?

You can't do business this way...

Update: January 31, still no news. Almost 2 months now ;-) I can't believe it.

Update: February, 3 - I have an adapter at home, my wife's Mac is now connected to the display. Ordered two days ago from a different Czech company - thanks goes to Quentin and Filip... Two days compared to 2 months. That's approx. 30 times better service...

Update: February, 24 - ~80 days after my order, I have my money back.

Summary: do not trust local Apple Authorized Distributor.]]> http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2008/12/31/T21_00_30/ 2008-12-31T21:00:30+02:00 Pavel Private
I have an enormous amount of new experiences after this year:

• sometimes, it doesn't matter how much energy you invest into your goals
• sometimes, your goals happen even if you forget about them
• sometimes, even with you doing exactly the opposite, your goals happen anyway
• sometimes, even your enemies can work with you on your goals and even be better than you!

To sum up: everything is relative. The only thing you can do is to limit the relativness ;-) The only important thing is your family and people around you. And I'm proud that I can work with the people around me.

And I'm very proud of my family which is even bigger this year - my daughter Lucie brought a lot of light into my life. Thanks for her, thanks for my son and my wife and others.]]>