Author Archives: andy

One wireless device to rule them all

Posted on 2012/10/26 by andy

Staying at the hotels too much, sometimes I am facing penny-pitching network policies like “pay for each device separately” or having just a cable network. With the advent of smartphones and tablets such policy is smart move as we think … Continue reading →

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Bratislava, mirazyme and chicken

Posted on 2012/10/03 by andy

Thinking of recent business travel to Slovak Republic, southern neighbors, I still have in my mind long hours spent in the night at the hotel trying to reduce backlog. During day time I had not time to enjoy amazingly beautiful … Continue reading →

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Nigeria

Posted on 2012/09/08 by andy

With gunfire, blasts and religion clash in the north, the locals claimed the south areas are quite safe. Not enough though for a white man to take a walk in the evening or take a taxi from the street; stories … Continue reading →

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SGS2 after Desire? NonSENSE

Posted on 2012/08/24 by andy

Days of my old HTC Desire are counted. Despite optimized custom firmware it runs too slow in critical situations leading to missed shots due to laggy camera, waiting long seconds to open apps, constant jitter when company bloatware (read: lotus … Continue reading →

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Mini-ITX home server – part two, software

Posted on 2012/08/07 by andy

In the late stage of hardware planning of new server I assumed software RAID1 support. Since this was my first time to play with disk array I reduced number of variables to minimum and have chosen Ubuntu Linux as server … Continue reading →

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Mini-ITX home server – part one, hardware

Posted on 2012/07/30 by andy

While modified router works well as a mini server with backoffice services, low I/O throughput and computing power is a bottleneck for storing large files and administering wordpress blog. Waiting long seconds for administrative console to response, it was bugging … Continue reading →

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China for westerners

Posted on 2012/07/16 by andy

Hong Kong, metropolis in special administrative area. It is neither completely Chinese nor British any more. For me it is well known gateway between China and the rest of the world, a place where you can get export goods for … Continue reading →

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Wooden skating frames?

Posted on 2012/07/08 by andy

Browsing a sport shop I found skates with fancy color and texture of the frame, looking like made of wood. I was almost sure that it was composite material used for low-end skates imitating wood. To my surprise it was … Continue reading →

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Dashing across Pittsburgh, splashing through Niagara

Posted on 2012/06/15 by andy

Here comes my completely subjective view of Pittsburgh/PA, the city “between Chicago and New York”, best known to Americans from its steel industry history. A view taken from urban skater perspective, that is making wikipedia description more complete, as well … Continue reading →

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Andida 1800mAh smartphone battery

Posted on 2012/05/28 by andy

Some time ago I was facing spontaneous heavy battery drain, around 5% per hour, so that battery could not last one day doing anything. Far too much because it already could work 3 days on single charge, when idle most … Continue reading →

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