wahlau's online hut

if you are following the press conference of T-mobile, Google and htc now, you are definitely aware of the development of mobile internet experience. The press conference is still on at this time at here.

a plan is made - next to be accomplished - a flickr-like drupal based gallery setup. no more bridging between different systems. I believe what drupal offers today is enough to make a simple web photo gallery. Only question is - how?

Angie from Lullabot made a very good tutorial on creating a flickr like drupal web gallery. It was then 2006, and we only had 4.6 then. Today we have drupal 6.4 - can we do better?

have you ever felt that even though you are on a "super fast" linux system, it still start to slow down without apparent reason? Well, i have no answer to that, but i know recent software aren't as small as they were used to be. It all comes back to your current system's setting and its capability to run multiple software at once. I myself find ubuntu with most standard software plus claws-mail (no evolution/thunderbird for me) pretty good. Of course, i have 1.5GB of RAM.

finally took the time to tidy up my long-deserted online photo album. But the quest now is - remove unnecessary files, and reorganize them. I realise the good old gallery 1 web album made lots of *.sized.jpg and *.thumb.jpg, so going to every directory to remove them manually will take quite some time.

so i looked around for some CLi power. and i know even though it is simple for many of you there, i don't do that often so i have to relearn this :) it is at the end rather simple. my best find was to use find (he he a pun?). it does the job pretty well:

right after i jotted down my thoughts, partly because Dan is following up with today's announcement from Nokia, we now have some pretty good news (at least for me). Ari Jaaksi made some announcement and it looks like the Internet Tablet's successor will be further "pimped" with goodies the community has been requesting (at least some).

been a while i follow up with the development of the Nokia Internet Tablets (770, n800 and n810). Not that i don't care about it anymore, but it seemed such units are more like toys to geeks then something that really help us in our daily lives. Ok, until n810, the rest are really nice as proof of concepts that show what potential such units can have. The n810 is the first one that i finally say "wow, now i can do more on a mobile unit than any other". But that was also almost a year ago.

many names were given/speculated since a month plus ago - but today it is live - the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. It is not only somehow found in US sites - in Germany's dell site you can already order the black one with very limited customization choices.

while leaving my room for work today, i plugged the charger to my nokia 770 - the first generation of the Nokia Internet Tablets. It came to my mind that i have not really used it since quite some time. Even during the last holiday, it was only used for mahjong. :) The last time i tried to really use it, was the time we got lost somewhere near Hamburg - and it kept crashing that i gave up searching for something there.

a few things you must/can try out, for your new Asus Eee PC:

1. Install Ubuntu EEE
Instead of installing the original Ubuntu, i found Ubuntu-eee. The team hasdone a great job. What i did to get Ubuntu on my Eee PC was just: first, download iso. second, use Unetbootin to create a bootable USB with LiveC. third, install from USB on either SSD or SD card.

if you have got yourself a N800 or N810, and wish to use it for productivity purposes, the latest tutorial from Tablet School might interest you. It is already known that USB host mode is supported via a software update, but if you are lazy or afraid to try it out, the tutorial will give you a video how-to to get it working!

so time to get yourself a USB keyboard or USB to PS/2 adaptor for your favourite keyboard and boast it with your IT :)