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, users would be able to use all functionality of their devices. And I’m sure that a lot more people would be willing to purchase WM Devices.
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 
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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:
- Connect the phone via USB
- On the phone: Start->Programs->Internet Sharing (Note: you must have at least one profile for connecting to the internet and this is usually being taken care of by your carrier. When you insert the sim card, you essentially receive all settings via Push-message)
- Choose internet connection to use and click ‘Connect’
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.
My computer was up all night downloading some stuff that I need. How surprised I was when I saw a message like: Congratulations, latest updates were installed! …And the computer was restarted without my will for that. How fucked up is that I don’t even have an option not to restart being in the middle of something?!
Guess what was the first thing I did when I came to Seattle? We went to brewery in Seattle area where I ordered a big beer burger! Umm, how I missed it and how delicious it was! Not that I was trying to eat much and make myself look like this man:
But I have to admit that it was very enjoyable!
I’m finally back from the business trip to US. It’s been a long time since I posted anything new, but that’s mostly because I was too busy. Looking back at what my calendar looked like – it’s pretty packed. If you can see the blank spot – that’s because I was traveling on that day.
I still can’t adjust to the 10 hours time difference. That’s why I’m up so early. My schedule is a complete mess right now, but it’s getting better.
Check out latest photos I made. Unfortunately, my wife wasn’t accompanying me this time and it wasn’t as much fun as it could be. But still, it was a very interesting and useful trip, both business and personally-wise.
We’ve been to Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas. There were many unforgettable moments…
I’m getting tons of crap like: “Great article, I’ll subscribe!”, “Nice story” every day. Who the hell thinks that I’ll approve them? I accidentally deleted useful comments because of spamming retards.
Now, anyone who spams me again will suffer from my deadly curse (I also have a magic ability to send curse to automated scripts so they end having fatal bugs wiping out your file system). Do you want to spam? Think again.
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