wahlau's online hut

this is not so new - if you follow the Nokia Internet Tablet and Maemo recent progress, you probably already knew that a new tablet should be out before 2010. Since 2005, Nokia has already release 3 generations of Internet Tablets - 4.1" 800x480 screen, WiFi and Bluetooth enabled, Linux OS, both nokia and community supported applications and more. The last device N810 was released around early 2008 (if i remembered correctly) and since then, many have been waiting for the next update.

looking the current trend, you can see most people who want need a portable Internet device will get themselves a Netbook. The reason? simple, it is not that slow after all, and it is affordable than those expensive sub-notebooks. It has mostly enough connectivity interfaces that you and i can get online in places we mostly are going to frequent. If you are the few lucky ones with good 3G plans, you might be able to even get online everywhere you are with a suitable 3G device.

since i finally figured out how to connect to my department's VPN server, i just wonder whether is it also easy to create my own vpn server at home. The idea is - with vpn connect i can easy browse files i need from the file server, or to synchronize repositories/backup files. I won't need to stream stuffs from home, or sneak naughty packets through my home network :)

as compared to the Eee PC 701, the 901 is not really that much bigger. However the real estate of the screen makes really quite some differences. For people who only need to occasionally view pictures, videos and web sites i think the 701 will do the job well. But if you plan to work on it, e.g documents or presentations, you will really appreciate the 8.9" screen with the rather now-standard 1024x600 resolution.

I admit it - i have no patience and i want things fast. It is 6 days from the release of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibix. So i waited until today where the RC is released, and i made an dist-upgrade. Note that you need really at least 1.6G if you want to go the "update-manager -d" way. i somehow could not squeeze out that much space, so i burnt the RC iso in to CD, and went the CD way. It is pretty simple - insert cd, and click on upgrade.

Got some vouchers from a friend as birthday gift long ago, and did not know what to do with it. we finally made up our mind - we will buy ourselves an electrical toothbrush. Decision was easy, since we see many friends recommending it. The tough part was to know which to buy - you can start from 12€ and end up at 150€, looking at what the market is offering.

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.

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.

as mentioned earlier, the pancake finally arrived, on time before we set off for Hannover :)

Attaching it to the camera, the already small E-410 looks smaller and more compact:)