… mammoth cave …
Its been a week since I am playing around pfSense – a firewall solution based on m0n0wall (which, in turn, is based on FreeBSD and lots of open-source tools). For the time being it seems to work fine and handle the small LAN (around 40 users + 7 servers) with no problems.
The cool stuff around it is that it has WebGUI for all its configurations which makes it to be a nice replacement for those 3com ADSL routers people are usually using in such places.
Finally I managed to change my phone. My old Nokia 3310 [kindly presented to me by my brother as a birthday gift a three years ago] served me a lot and finally the battery dead. Due to the reason that I needed more powerful mobile I went and got Sony Ericsson p910 which I found to be a very good phone with everything (and even more) stuff I that were in my requirements list.
in addition I got a USB bluetooth (very small and handy) so I can make file exchange between my phone and all the computers I need.
Hope that the new phone will server me as good as the old one.
P.S.: since I have a digital camera in the phone I hope that some photos might appear in this blog from time to time which will make it more lovely.
Just watched the screenshots of M$ Office 12 and was amazed on how great the interface has been changed. I see that M$ is pushing more and more changes in the UI both for Office 12 and Windows Vista. I wonder how much time a usual (not power) user will need to spend to get used to the new UI?
So as I think, when Win Vista and Office 12 will arrive, a user will have a nice choice of either spending lots of money on buying all these new software (+ hardware since Win Vista requires quite a lot of it) and then spend a time on getting used to new things, or just getting on of those nice Linux distros (Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, whatever) for a much less money without any need for very powerful hardware and spend the same time getting used to the IU offered by software from Linux distro.
The first thing I thought looking at Office 12 screenshots was: \”why don\’t one move to openoffice since it I believe it will be much easier to get used to it than to new, fancy UI of Office 12?\”
After reading this nice article about remote controls and the way they suck (too many, too different, too complicated) I thought that possibly, we should end up with a separate box at home which knows all of the devices (along with their remotes), has one touchscreen remote (to use one remote for any number of any kind of equipment just by changing buttons on the touchscreen) which can control all of the user devices as well as provide some additional features like possibly:
– reorder the buttons displayed on the remote
– display only specified buttons (or better have profiling system, which adds another plus like at home, different members of family can use different profiles according to their needs and habits).
– whatever else.
I believe that this is not a very complicated thing, but I also believe that it will make life much easier.
Occasionally found out that one of my favorite computer game is now open-source :) Moreover it can be installed and used not only on Windows, but on Linux, Mac OS and other.
If you feel like you wanna play a nice, calm strategy (in SimCity style) – this is right the game you need.
BTW.: it is a now a multiplayer as well :)