This morning, Nokia announced their “Strategy for 2011“. This strategy is based around dropping Symbian (and essentially sidelining MeeGo) in favour of Windows Phone 7. As I said on Twitter this morning (and thanks to those who retweeted it), This morning’s Nokia news is like a man calling a press conference to shoot himself in …
Tag Archive: linux
Feb
11
2011
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Sep
01
2010
O, won’t you please authenticate me
Yesterday, Twitter disabled the basic username/password authentication for client applications. This is a move toward greater security but it did mean that anyone using Gwibber will suddenly have found that their Twitter stream stopped updating. A mere matter of hours later and an updated version of Gwibber has been pushed out that supports the new …
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Jul
27
2010
The Seven Link Challenge
Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …
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Jun
11
2010
Nokia X6: My experience so far
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently upgraded to the Nokia X6 16GB and as when I reviewed the N900, I’m posting my experiences of just over two weeks with it so far. All from the perspective of being a Linux user of course. I am loving the X6 on the whole. The ‘X’ range is …
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Apr
05
2010
New-look Planet openSUSE
Pascal “Yaloki” Bleser, aka “The Man” has redesigned Planet openSUSE and it’s packed with awesome. So say with me, Who the man?
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Mar
30
2010
The N900: My experiences
I was contacted a little while ago by WomWorld, offering me a review copy of the Maemo-powered Nokia N900 for a couple of weeks. That two weeks just came to a close and here are my thoughts from the point of view of a Linux user. On the whole, I enjoyed the N900 but not …
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Jan
22
2010
Planet SUSE
I just did a massive (and I mean HUGE) catch-up on Planet SUSE. If you’re on the Planet and you recently contacted me about it, all should now be as you asked. If you think anything is amiss, please let me know, I’d hate to have missed anything in the mass of updates.
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Dec
02
2009
Importing the Lectionary into Evolution
I know I’m not the only member of the clergy who uses Linux so I trust that this post may be of use to others. Also, the notes here may well apply to users of other open source calendars, I use Evolution so I know it works there. Your mileage may – or may not …
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Nov
28
2009
The Smartphone for Linux quest ends…?
For quite some time, I’ve been trying to answer the question What is the best smartphone for Linux users? I’ve suggested that – ironically – Windows Mobile is a solid solution and looked forward to the release of the Nokia N900 (forever delayed it currently seems). My use case was of using Evolution for calendaring …
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Nov
12
2009
openSUSE 11.2 is now out
Well, it’s creeping onto the servers as I type – so get it while it’s hot! openSUSE Software Download. Read about all our killer features.
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