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Nokia N900 – Nokia finally entering the 21st century?
Aug 31st
First off, I have to say that I love my E71. I think it’s a great phone. The 2 year old design still kicks most of the new phones’ asses. It’s just stylish, beautiful, slim … just great. But like with all good things, there’s drawbacks. The E71’s bigget drawback is Symbian. It’s not too bad, since the E71 is not a touch screen device, but I was thinking about getting the N97 as a follow up.
The N97 looks amazing. Again, very very stylish. I love the slightly tilted screen when the keyboard is showing, it’s just great. But while testing the phone, I noticed that Symbian is just not good enough for the phone. The hardware is amazing. The design is amazing. The OS is shit.
So what’s next? The N900!
Nokia finally realized that it’s time to move on.
The N900 looks amazing. It has nearly everything that a phone needs to compete with the HTC Hero and iPhone.
First of all: No more Symbian. The N900 is Maemo powered. Maemo is Nokia’s Linux Distribution, based on Debian and Gnome. Maemo was a great OS for the N800/N810 for geeks to hack around on. You could literally run nearly anything on it. The formfactor of the N800 series wasn’t great though. It was more a Tablet PC, than a Smartphone. But now Nokia is back, with Maemo 5!
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All I can say about that video: Wow! The UI looks very slick. It looks extremely fast and like something people would want in 2009. The OS has a lot of Web Integration and being Linux, it would allow to be extended to whatever you want by using apt.
There is one thing missing though: Multi-Touch. All the competition has Multi Touch. Why not add that to the N900 too?
Design wise, I would prefer a more N97 look, especially with the tilting screen. But I guess, the N900 will be the first of many Touchscreen phones by Nokia.
But to say the least, it looks like a very promising phone. So if anyone from Nokia is reading this, pleeease give me a test device 
I am going to learn Ubuntu?
Jan 18th
Hey,
just got an IM from Alex about this video.
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This is why I use a Mac and Linux on my desktop machines.
Howto: Install a frontend on your Server with NX
Dec 31st
This howto will explain to you how to install a frontend on your server which is accessible via NX. This tutorial is for Debian based systems, and has been tested on an Flosoft.biz FlexServ (RPS).
1. Check the basic Debian setup.
We need to modify the sources.list
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following 2 lines:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
Close and save (:wq) and run this command to update:
apt-get update
Then check if your system is up to date, and if necessary install updates.
apt-get dist-upgrade
2. Installing the X window manager xorg.
Just type in:
apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xorg
There will be a few questions at the end, for now just go with the defaults.
3. The Login Manager
Now you have 3 options. You can install any of the following Login Manager’s. Your options are:
- KDM
KDM is probably the best if you want to use KDE - GDM
GDM is probably the best if you want to use Gnome - XDM
XDM is probably the best if you want to use Fluxbox or XFCE
Once you have chosen one of the GUIs run one of the following three commands:
apt-get install kdm
apt-get install gdm
apt-get install xdm
4. The GUI
Now again, you have a choice of different Graphical User Interfaces.
- KDE
Personally my favourite on Debian - Gnome
My favourite on Ubuntu - Fluxbox
Never used it - XFCE4
Never used it
Once you have chosen one of the GUIs run one of the following three commands:
apt-get install kde
apt-get install gnome
apt-get install xfce4
apt-get install fluxbox
Thats all for the base setup.
5. Reboot
You should reboot to make sure the X server starts.
shutdown -r now
6. Create your user
Once your server has rebooted, and you have relogged in, you should create a user which you will use for the GUI.
adduser mynewusername
6. Getting the NX packages
Now we need to setup the NX server, so that you are able to connect to the server from your home. So you need to download the NX server pacakges:
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.1.0/Linux/nxclient_3.1.0-2_i386.deb
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.1.0/Linux/nxnode_3.1.0-3_i386.deb
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.1.0/Linux/FE/nxserver_3.1.0-2_i386.deb
7. Installing the NX packages
As you have the packages now in your directory, you need to install them via dpkg.
dpkg -i nxclient_3.1.0-2_i386.deb
dpkg -i nxnode_3.1.0-3_i386.deb
dpkg -i nxserver_3.1.0-2_i386.deb
8. The Services
Now we need to make sure the services are running.
/etc/init.d/ssh restart
/etc/init.d/nxserver restart
9. The Browser
Last, but not least… well actually least … Firefox! You will need a nice Browser, so Firefox is the way to go.
apt-get install firefox
Now you’re system is setup and you’re ready to use it. Simply setup your NX Client and have fun!
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask me or just leave a comment.
