maandag 24 mei 2010
Belparkeren Alarm
maandag 10 mei 2010
Missed Call Volume Control
- Automatic Startup, lets the application start as a backgroud service automatically on boot.
- Show Volume Slider, shows the slider when the application changes the volume.
- Vibrate After Calls Missed, starts vibrating after the amount of selected missed calls. 0 = no change to the vibrate setting.
- Volume Increase Type, select Slow / Medium / Fast to influence how fast the volume is increased. Slow will increase with 1 step after each missed call, medium increases with 2 steps, fast with 3 steps.
vrijdag 23 april 2010
Bye bye Hero, welcome Desire.
dinsdag 1 december 2009
Run OpenManage on Dell 2950 / 2970 with ESXi
- Create a complete image of the current disks. Then recreate the Raid 5 array with 6 disks. Then restore the image. Seemed to be risky and time consuming.
- Create a dual boot on an extra partition running Windows Server 2003. On this OS we could install Dell OpenManage to reconfigure the disk array. It seems like almost impossible to create a dual boot with ESXi.
- Install ESXi version from Dell including OpenManage http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R215992&formatcnt=1&libid=0&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=306537. Since this is not just an update it probably requires to setup all VM's again.
- Use a linux live-cd with OpenManage installed on it. It seemed the dell community worked on this and created a CentOS live-cd including OpenManage 5.5. See http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/
I tried option 4 first, since it seemed to be the safest option to start with. I downloaded the ISO and burned it to a CD. Then I went to the server, inserted the CD, rebooted and kept my fingers crossed. Unfortunately, this last step did not help. When the live-cd tried to recognize the SATA controller it raised an error:
'Fatal error occured - Data for LiveCD not found. Are you using SCSI?'
The LiveCD had problems detecting and initializing the SATA controller of the Dell 2970. Looking on the internet showed me that more users had this problem. My solution for this was to create a bootable USB stick containing the CentOS OpenManage ISO. To do this I downloaded UNetbootin from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Again, fingers crossed, I went to the server, placed the USB stick in the USB port at the back. Fingers crossed... Rebooted into the USB stick, the boot was succesful! I had to login with sluser / sluser. Then I saw the linux prompt. On another PC I started my internet browser and went to https://ip_of_server
Hmmkay.
zondag 15 november 2009
Android & Bluetooth
I have no clear idea to why this has not been implemented, are there any licenses maybe? Or is it just ignorance from the Android developers? I guess we'll have to wait until Android 5.0 comes alive, in the meanwhile I'll just have to live with the fact that there still is not one perfect telephone (although it comes close :))
dinsdag 4 augustus 2009
HTC Hero, my experience so far
Just about a week ago I received my new mobile phone. After I used a HTC S710 and HTC Touch Pro for 2 years, this is my first step into the world of Android. My biggest worry was the speed. It has been mentioned over and over on several review sites. In my mind there is no issue with the speed at all. Yes, sometimes it lags very little. But if you're coming from a Windows Mobile phone you will be very pleased with the speed of the Hero! I think that's the issue with the reviews, the speed has been compared to an iPhone which has a very smooth UI but it's also twice as expensive... When you compare it with any Windows Mobile device the Hero is really really fast!
The good things:
- Very good hardware design. The back of the device has this teflon layer which feels really good. Very solid!
- The screen is great. Very clear and good size. Touchscreen is good, good respons. Even managed to write an error free text message with a lot of beer...
- The speed is good.
- HTC Widgets and skin is great.
- Android OS is nice!
- All basic functionalities like phone and sms work like a charm.
- Very active development community, so the Android Market is full with software.
The less good things:
- Back button placed quite inconveniently.
- No flash for the camera. Camera is good at daylight, but when the sun goes down, so does the quality of the camera.
Conclusion:
Very nice phone. Certainly when you're moving from Windows Mobile, like I did, this will be a relieve!
maandag 27 juli 2009
HTC Hero delayed, again...
When I pre-ordered I already knew there were some troubles with the delivery of the phone. It was already delayed by two weeks I believe. But then a webshop showed 'delivery within 1 day', this together with rumors that it really was going to happen! I could not resist...
Unfortunately it's delayed again! Rumors say it might have something to do with a conflict between HTC and Google, others say HTC is busy with a last minute firmware update. HTC however says nothing. In my mind that's a very stupid thing to do. If you want to make your customers happy, then be honest! What's there to hide? Could it be a marketing action, I mean a very bad marketing action? If HTC is creating a hype around this phone, why not hyping with some positive news then?
On the other hand, negative attention is still attention, hmmkay!