Archive for June, 2009

Microsoft Tax– Howto get a refund

Jun 29th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

2 comments

Was going through my rss feeds and found the following on Planet Ubuntu: http://simos.info/blog/archives/1000

I now can’t wait till I get a new PC :)

Hopefully this helps others out there who don’t need/want windows, there are other alternatives: http://distrowatch.com

Half-Gotee

To shave or not to shave

Jun 22nd

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family

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So for the last little while I have been growing a beard… :) Well Cecilia wants me to shave it, but I don’t really want to… :(

So I leave it to anyone who reads his, what should I do?

Half-Gotee

Phone update – Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Jun 13th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

1 comment

So, I’ve been using this phone for a while now, and it’s quite awesome… Well when using all the features the battery only seems to last about a day and a half, but that’s with WIFI and GPS on, so not too surprized…

The GPS and Nokia maps isn’t too bad, managed to get me to a couple of places I needed to go, one annoying thing though is that sometimes it wants me to take an offramp and then an onramp to the same hiway… *weird*

Still need to try get this phone to sync with my PC, just havn’t really had the time to play with it…

I really like the touch screen, and the multiple”keyboards” pity they only in qwerty format… and too small to use like a pc keyboard…

Well overall I think it was a great choise, now to find some decent logging software so I can contribute to openstreetmaps.org

Internet or lack thereof

Jun 9th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Web

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So I found a nice internet speed tester… Dunno how acurate it is but it shows just how crap our internet is… :(

At home using iBust:

Speedtest Home

Speedtest Home

And at work using ADSL:

Speedtest Work

Speedtest Work

Both of these are supposed to be 1Mb/s lines (not 100% sure about work I think it’s actually a 4Mb/s line)

Just shows how bad the internet is here :(

Hopefully by 2010 as Telkom are advertising we will have better access…

New Phone – Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Jun 3rd

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family

So today I got my new Phone, after loosing my old one, and then sending my temporary one through the wash :(

First off, thank you and sorry Cecilia, I know that this has “messed” up the accounts :(

Offhand this is a fairly nice phone, just need to get used to it, will report more on it later…