Author Archives: andy

Is the Dead Sea alive?

Posted on 2011/08/07 by andy

The Dead Sea is quite alive, as long as humans count as its fauna. In fact over 33% concentration of salt and other minerals in water, makes underwater life completly dead. This gift of nature located in Jordan, is one … Continue reading →

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New skates on the block

Posted on 2011/07/28 by andy

My Salomon Crossmax skates are history. For a long time I could not decide which skates would replace them well. Finally I got Powerslide Metro freeride skates, because they receive positive comments, because I checked them personally and because…  I … Continue reading →

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Kindle 3 customized

Posted on 2011/07/22 by andy

I was thinking of Kindle 3 for some time: eBook reader with paper-like light-reflective display available at reasonable price. In Chicago I noticed Kindle 3 version called “Kindle with Special Offers” (KSO) for only $114. It was attractive alternative for … Continue reading →

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Beware chinese USB adapters

Posted on 2011/07/10 by andy

Some time ago I bought miniUSB-microUSB adapter for pennies to avoid collecting more and more USB cables. I have used it for USB power adapter with miniUSB plug to charge my HTC Desire with microUSB. To my surprise couple days … Continue reading →

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Things Chicagoan cannot see

Posted on 2011/07/03 by andy

With the advent of IBM BPM 7.5 I was invited to US for internal training in mid of June. So far Chicago was a connection point travelling to other places, this time I had one week to hang around. Most … Continue reading →

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Secure FTP with chroot jail on OpenWRT

Posted on 2011/06/06 by andy

I am happy user of vsftpd that gives me necessery features but encryption. I was trying to replace existing approach but did not succeed. Here comes the story.

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Unrestful Cairo

Posted on 2011/05/29 by andy

Cairo never sleeps. I could experience it on my way from airport to hotel, catched by massive traffic jam at 11pm. In the morning I could sense typical arabic metropoly like Casablanca but raised to the power. Constant honking of car … Continue reading →

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My new (htc) desire

Posted on 2011/05/08 by andy

After almost 12 years of marriage with Nokia brand I decided to try something else. I wanted to have phone with portable GPS with a screen big enough to see maps while driving a car. Anything more was an option I thought. … Continue reading →

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The die has been cast

Posted on 2011/04/20 by andy

I remember my first digital circuit made up when I was teenager, an electronic dice, made of TTL logical gates, driving 7 LEDs formed to display any combination of dots of thrown dice. I realized it would be good microcontroller … Continue reading →

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National rail snailways

Posted on 2011/04/12 by andy

How long would it take to travel 300km to another city for 2 hours business meeting and then get back? In Western Europe it is 5 to 7 hours depending on means of transport. In place where I live it … Continue reading →

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