I decided to change my primary cell phone carrier. I use Utel’s services from this point on. The advantage is a fast 3G internet for very little price. This makes me truly mobile now.
Anyone who wants to know my new phone number — please, contact my via e-mail or any other method available (IM, whatever)
You may notice that logon sound plays perfectly fine, but other sounds (like window maximising, minimising, etc.) just refuse to work even though they may be enabled in preferences on fresh Ubuntu Intrepid installation. Here’s the solution. Works for me!
I’m running late to training, but still wanted to see how it works posting from my phone… 
P.S. Geeeez, I’m becoming geeky. That scares me…
This great article describes the process of getting your Samsung i780 (and any other phone supporting Internet Sharing via PAN) to work as a bluetooth modem in Linux Ubuntu 8.10.
The only thing that I have to note is that described steps didn’t work for me until I added one additional string to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto bnep0
After that I was able to connect to the internet through my phone flawlessly!
Just wanted to let the world know what I think about MS ActiveSync: piece of s-h-i-t. Pediod.
I borrowed my wife’s computer (she uses XP), installed ActiveSync 4.5. Then somehow it needed to restart 3-4 times to start working with my phone. Whatever, I have a patience. But… When it ‘synced’ with Outlook, I was shocked. First of all, it created duplicates for my contacts in a random manner: some had three records, some had for and some of them were alright. Secondly, it ended up flooding my phone with tons of empty records that showed up as ‘Unknown’. Finally, even when ActiveSync said that synchronization was completed, I looked at Tasks in Outlook and there were none there. So I had to re-sync… Which doubled the number of duplicates. Ridiculous! :-\
Why does Windows Mobile let you synchronize your device with many computers and only one Exchange Server? Why does it only let you synchronize one Mail account, when you can have many?.. I can continue this list, but… I guess these are all rhetorical questions.
One thing is pretty obvious though: Microsoft is already an Internet loser. When Bill Gates was writing his books about how everything would be Internet-based, few young folks from Stanford University were doing their job of transforming the future into reality. It’s even ridiculous: why predict the future of technology and refuse to do something real valuable in that direction?
And Microsoft is already trying to catch up with their mobile OS technology (read about windows mobile 6.5, 7.0). Because at this point they are well behind their competitors.
I personally tend to think that Android is by far the most perspective system… We’ll wait and see.
Why does Microsoft always have to come up with their f-in’ proprietary formats so that it becomes hard to impossible to support devices and systems on other platforms? Now, I know why and so do you…
I’m talking about synchronisation of Windows Mobile devices with non-Windows platforms. Theoretically, it is possible, but… There are lots and lots of complications along the road. This creates poor user experience and a lot of frustration. Why not make ActiveSync an open protocol for an engineering world!? People have to hack and reverse-engineer things when they could just have a nice and complete specification. This way, Linux, Mac,
I wish Google Android had complete MS Exchange support. Once it happens, I’ll dump my WM phone and buy some nice Google Android device .
Okay, so I’ve been desperately trying to make my phone (Samsung SGH-i780) work as a modem in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) and finally managed to! For those who’ll possibly stumble upon this post and who are interested to know how to make it work — here’s how to do it:
First of all, a small introduction. When you want to use the phone as a modem, you usually connect the phone via USB and then use it as a modem device to dial your ISP to get connected to the internet using pppd, gnome-ppp, etc.
Well, I’ve spent hours trying to define my i780 as a modem… But I was surprised to know that all you really need to do is:
And this is literally all you need — your computer should be connected to the internet. The phone is presented with one of eth devices (eth2 in my case) in the system. No pppd nightmare, no nothing — it’s that simple .
I have decided to change the title of this blog since Darya didn’t justify the right to be called ‘The Blogger’, hehe 
. This is my virtual revenge!
I don’t know why, but I’m usually procrastinating when it comes to updating/upgrading my blog. And it’s totally irrational because the process takes no more than 15 minutes of time. Well, congratulations, Artem, you did it finally!
This is how my desktop looks. Very nice!
I finally got sick of Vista and totally erased it from my computer. The new OS of choice is… (Guess what?) Linux Ubuntu! I find myself loving it more than anything else I’ve ever used. And so I decided to install it on my laptop as a primary and only operating system. I love the fact that everything is so easy to configure as you like. Mac OS X interface? No problem, few commands in the console, few clicks — you got it! The Ubuntu community is really cool — you can go to google, type the problem that you experience and you’re almost guaranteed to get a solution on ubuntu forums.
And what amazes me most — you install it and you’re ready to go, pretty much. It’s not that ‘do-it-yourself’ linux constructor that was out there say 5 years ago. It’s totally friendly for users.
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