Been coughing for a couple of weeks now

Yes, I think it started about 2 weeks ago, with the usual sore throat that I usually get when I catch a cold, even had a slight fever one Thursday and stayed home from work. But this is starting to really annoy me as I've been coughing really bad couple of nights, especially last night was terrible, I almost didn't sleep at all. I stayed home to rest.
Watched some arduino and other electronic clips on youtube, so not a total waste of time :)

I'm 33 now

So I'm 33 now, didn't even had a chance to celebrate it on the day (the 26th) as the workplace pikkujoulu was on the same day. My sweet girlfriend gave the best card possible, stating I'm 26 as really, that's how I feel. I really can't believe I'm already 3 years over 30.

abook-qrcode 0.4

Uploaded a new version (0.4) of abook-qrcode to extras-devel. Plenty of new exciting features! :)

Now instead of saving the QR Code directly, you will get a nice preview QR Code image that someone can read directly from the phone screen. From the menu you have the option to Save or Share. Share uses the N900 sharing service so you can send the QR Code as an e-mail, using bluetooth or any configured sharing service like Facebook or Ovi.

New release of QR Code contact export plugin (abook-qrcode)

abook-qrcode is an address book extension, for the N900, to export your contacts as vcards encoded in a QR Code image.
I uploaded a new release, version 0.3 of abook-qrcode and it is now in extras-testing for you testing pleasure. New in this version:

• Selection of location and filename of exported QR Code image
• Export enabled in "My information" too

Planned for the next version is the ability to import contacts from any image containing a QR Code.

Spare parts for 770, N800, N810 and N900

Someone was asking for where to get spare parts for the older tablets in Europe. Quick google did not find anything, but after digging I found one place. I am posting it here just in case anyone needs spare parts, and as a note to myself. So here.

Updated: 21.10.2011
Looks like the link when I posted this is broken, but the site has still spare parts available for all older tablets (770, N800, N810), and the N900 too.

Wasting time ranting and not doing it

This is just silly, the time used to rant about how hard it is could have been spent making the .deb. It is not that hard to create and you can always use another source deb as a template. There are plenty to choose from.

Wine 1.3.4 on arm (N900)

After reading the announcement of wine 1.3.4 and particularly this on winehq: "Winelib now supports the ARM platform" I just had to try it.

Builds fine in sbox, no problems there. Initial run takes a while of clicking on cancel as winedbg crashes but after that the built in programs runs, but the window manager is not doing such a great job with the wine windows and dialogs.

Screenshots of winemine below:

Update 15.10.2010:
Using desktop mode makes using wine much nicer and keyboard input works too. Running winecfg is a bit problematic as it won't fit the screen properly but editing ~/.wine/user.reg and adding the following lines in the end enables desktop mode:

[Software\\Wine\\Explorer] 1287126526
"Desktop"="Default"

[Software\\Wine\\Explorer\\Desktops] 1287126530
"Default"="800x480"