This is the geeky sequel to my last Linux to IPhone tethering episode where we used and abused the IPhone tethering function.
Some background, I’m one of those people who contracted (and got stuck) with the 50G SingTel Mobile Broadband Plan before the days of 12GB IPhone plan. My usage was about 4G per month, so [...]
Tethering from a mobile phone is not new to me. I started from the days of having to script the ppp chat scripts to wvdial to finally having Network Manager recognizing my mobile phone as a 3G modem.
IPhone is new. I have been reading about tethering on Linux as soon as I bought it. Painful [...]
The actual cost for shipping the brand new Google Phone / Nexus One to Singapore
The Google Nexus One is finally out, after half a month of rave rumours (which are surprisingly accurate). Here’s some figures for potential buyers in Singapore.
Cost of the phone $529
Cost of shipping: Approximately $26.65 by DHL
Import taxes and duty at Custom: 7% GST on Cost of phone + Shipping inclusive
The whole cost would come up [...]
I have to struggle with this whenever I had a new Debian installation. SCIM does not work out of the box in Debian, so there’s some minor configurations to do. But I failed to note it down anywhere, just happily relying on Google.
So yet again, I have a new Debian Lenny installation on my new [...]
Recently got a mini usb bluetooth dongle. Sad thing is that I found that it doesn’t play well in the latest version of Ubuntu. Did a quick search on Google and found that it’s because of the new btusb kernel module in the latest kernels. The old kernels were using hci_usb.
I booted up Debian with [...]
The need for speed is never satiable. I was running Windows XP in Virtualbox with 1 VCPU all these while. Speed was acceptable for me to do my office related stuff like Exchange and Office.
My CPU was a Core2Duo with HyperThread. So technically, I have 4 VCPU to play with. So I decided I could [...]
Compiled Google Gears for 64 bit Linux
Saw this advertisement for Mac in the Straits Times today. I wonder why they want to market the Mac as a machine that runs Linux.
I’m both a Mac and Linux user. (Long time Linux user and 1 yr old Mac convert). And in my opinion, I won’t want to buy a Macbook and run Linux. [...]
My itchy hands got the better of me again. Ubuntu 9.04 is in Alpha6, which means there are things that could still be broken. But alas, I could not control my itchy hands, so I went ahead and upgraded from the current 8.10.
Fortunately, I did not regret the upgrade. The whole interface seems faster compared [...]
