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Sony Ericsson w960 touchscreen not working; DIY

April 30, 2009 – 4:46 pm by AbsintheSyringe
I'm completely out of time, but I gotta tell you about this one. My touchscreen adventures with w960 As I remember I got w960 in February last year. I really take great care of this phone, but touchscreen stopped working twice already in this as some might say short period of time. I'm one of them btw. First time it stopped working I was sitting in a chair which FYI was incredibly low, I dropped out of my hand, it hit the floor (with some sort of rug on it). My colleague at the time is driving us home from work, rain is ... ballistic, insane trash containers are on the streets, aaah mayhem! I grab my phone to take few pictures or something, touchscreen is not reacting ... I restart it, it's still not working. We're going through this lake, car is about to stop running. Ok now I hard restart, nah still ...

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Debian 5.0 Lenny released … [updated]

February 18, 2009 – 3:22 pm by AbsintheSyringe
Debian 5.0 Lenny was released on 14th this month. 22 months of development, I knew the exact release date long time upfront, but I didn't plan that right on that day FoolControl will go through some downtime :/ Nevertheless, Lenny is out, and out of sudden I don't have much stuff left to talk about on this very topic now :) I find Lenny to be one of the best releases Debian releases yet, I too contributed to this release as much as I could. Didin't make into package maintainers, but it's all matter of free time, and dedication really. I've been with Lenny, well pretty much since Etch was released, I moved to Lenny. Since Lenny is stable now, and new testing is Squeeze, don't jump on Squeeze right about now, since there aren't security updates at the moment, since security team for Squeeze isn't formed yet. However, Lenny has been great ...

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Downtime?

February 16, 2009 – 11:06 pm by AbsintheSyringe
Foolcontrol has been down, that is ... you'd actually see "Hello World" post and that's about it, for last ~3 days. I was actually making switching from one server to another, and I really thought there won't be any disturbances (why oh why did I think that) and ended up with ~3 days downtime. Oh well, now it's all fine, and if for anything I must apologize to all the people that are hosted under FoolControl :) Nevertheless, what bothers me the most is that Debian 5 (lenny) was released in the meantime after 22 months of development, but I'll make sure I blog all about it :)

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Windows 7 is identical to KDE4?

February 7, 2009 – 5:37 pm by AbsintheSyringe
Since everybody and everything keeps talking about Windows 7, here's what I've got to say :) I said it tons of times, that new Windows looks is identical to one if KDE4 (posts: Gnome vs KDE … after release of KDE 4 and KDE 4) Nevethless, these guys went a step further with this same thought, Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? Source: ZDNet Australia: Is it Windows 7 or KDE4?

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Zeitgeist Addendum

February 4, 2009 – 2:39 pm by AbsintheSyringe
I've been using this day to chill, go over some movies and such, neverthless Zeitgeiest Addendum, for all the fans, I just thought you might want to know something: From: Adnan Hodzic <adnan@foolcontrol.org> Date: Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM Subject: Few technology questions from a "fan" To: comments@zeitgeistmovie.com Hello, I've been watching and been enjoying it. But, now in Zeitgeist Addendum I've come across a thing I cannot simple pass by. If I haven't made it clear so far, I'm not a "standard" critic, I'm more of a guy who pretty much diggs your stories, since I myself have come to pretty much same conclusion on most of the things you're talking about in Zeitgeist. But without further ado, here's my question, in Addendum at the end of the movie (1:55:39) where you're saying what we (the people) should do to prevent what's going on, you mention from quitting our job to what to watch and what not to watch, and it's all ...

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