Google Android-based T-Mobile G1 Released
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Yesterday marked a historical moment for Google Android as T-Mobile released their HTC designed G1 (was code-named as HTC Dream).
Wired described this phone as "Neither open or exciting".
Crave of cnet said "Design isn't new... No 3.5mm headset jack... has cut and paste (unlike iphone)"
Phonescope said "lack of video capturing capability... auto focus camera... design is plain and uninspiring... proprietary extUSB (by HTC)"
Gizmodo pointed that "one google account per phone, factory reset if need to switch... no desktop sync... no multi touch... sim-locked " from a good article titled "Five Most Obnoxious Flaws"
As usual, some photos to lure you.
White G1
Dark G1
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[Photos by vveneziani courtesy of Flickr]
Have a look on G1 by visiting their official website, or check out a detailed review by Phonescope. Oh, not forgetting, an article on G1 vs. Iphone by PCWorld.
Issue: Keyboard stop working
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Sporadically Ubuntu will refuse to acknowledge the keys i pressed in certain application, particularly nautilus (when try to rename a folder), pidgin conversation window, gedit and more.
The problem actually lies in scim (again..). The fix is easy.
1. edit ~/.scim/config
/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = False
Change the value from False to True.
2. Restart, and it will solve the problem :)
The solution originated from
1. keyboard stops working in specific apps...why?
Howto: mount a LVM2 hard disk
Thursday, July 19, 2007
This is not really a Ubuntu feisty specific instruction, but heck works well. I was looking for a way to retrieve some of my useful data stored on an old hard disk which refused to boot into the Fedora Core 3 (Yup, real old). After some googling, I finally found the following instructions, which works marvellously.
modprobe dm-modNow you may access the hard disk from /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00. Simple, right? :)
vgchange -ay
mkdir -p /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00
Issue: Chinese font in OpenOffice cannot be used
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Last time I used fedora, it does not support all my nice chinese true type font (ttf) which downloaded from Taiwan websites. For now, ubuntu 7.04 feisty, makes little difference.
1. We can now install those fonts, but cannot be used in OpenOffice or other gtk-based program (correct me if I'm wrong).
2. OpenOffice will only allow me to use those fonts only if it is already being used as I saved previously in Windows platform.
Solution yet to be found. Will update once I googled the solution.
