ubuntu 8.04 in my vaio

A couple of days ago I dedided to give ubuntu a try by installing it in my sony vaio vgn-t27gp laptop. A couple of months ago I installed extra ram to this machine and eventhough it is only 60GB hard disk, I created from my windows XP partition, with Acronis (a great tool to manage partitions in windows) a third nfts partitions (active) where I planned to install ubuntu.

I inserted the  CD and I choose to manage the disk partitions manually, because the default options were not good enaugh (one to install ubuntu and you kick windows out, and the other one to installed in all free space available). I wanted to install it in 10Gb. 

I selected the new 10 Gb partition I created in windows, erase it and created a 512Mb swap in the free space and in the rest a ext3 partition with booting point at /

Everything went perfectly fine.

Then... no sound, no hibernation... and battery last less than half of what it lasts with windows xp... dammed... 

I will write about the workaround as soon as I have some free time.

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An iPhone in my life...

Yes... there is something new in my life... an iPhone...
Toni, my dear friend, gave me one that he bought for me in the US. I did not want it, but he insisted so badly that I could not refuse it... Thanks Toni... you know you should not have done that...

It took me 4 minutes to unlock it with ziphone
Ziphone is a little application that you download to your PC, you run it and your iPhone is unlocked and fully open. There is no secret. You run the program, you click on do it all and after 4 minutes I had the phone free, running 1.1.3.

I adds the App installer and a ziphone shorcut that you can delete.

Then if you want 1.1.4 you connect it to itunes, and you upgrade it. Then the iPhone will be lock again. You run again the ziphone GUI but this time you click on don't unlock, as it is already unlocked... and surprise! you have 1.1.4!

My fundamental question was weather to continue with the iPhone or go back to my HTC p3300.... as the iPhone does not support Push (IMAP IDLE) has no GPS (and tom tom), no FM radio, no splashid software (to manage my confidential data), no onenote and office, no video recording, contacts can not be sorted by categories or even searched, has no copy paste .... but the potential I see in this machine is huge... a full MAC OS, where I connect via ssh, run a terminal or even apache... I have the feeling that this phone will mark the beginning of a new era.

If you want to know more about the apps, installing the cyndia installer, reparing the default installer and adding more sources, and a list of the applications I have (ssh2, converter...) click on read more...

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Push!!!

I guess most of you are famililar with blackberries and the fact that they keep receiving emails constantly...
So well, I do not have a blackberry but I was curious on how it worked... I wondered, if it goes an check email every 1 minute that is hell a lot of data... so then I discover that in fact the emails are not "pulled" as they would be from your Outlook, Eudora or any desktop email client... the emails are pushed to the device from the server!!!

That made sense. That means that the data needed is just the negotiation and when you have an email to receive a part of it or all if you wanted. That's fair.

I started thinking how this could be done. I did not understand the principle. Do we need an extra layer in the server, after the IMAP or POP that pushes emails?
I knew that Microsoft Exchange included this push feature, but what about regular email servers like mine?

I started imagining how it "should" work. The mobile device should open a tunnel or connection to the email server. Does it mean that each device connected to GPRS has an IP? There are not enough IP's!!!

I found a couple of free solutions for my HTC Artemis (P3300) which is a WM6 machine, and I was very happy.

First it was emoze http://www.emoze.com

Emoze provides free push service. You dowonload a little software in the pda/phone (they support a lot of them) and then you can either use their servers to push gmail, yahoo or gmail apps directly to your device, or install a desktop application with your outlook to push (with your computer always on, sure) the email.

OK. I don't like to give away my passwords for email to a company but I tried. The problem is that norai is not gmail or yahoo, is just imap, so I had to forward all incoming email to an account I have in gmail and then pushed to my device. It worked, but that was not the way.

Then I found consillent, another free service to push email... but this time, IMAP!!
http://www.consilient.com

Well I tried it and I did not like it. I also have to give away my details... and it froze my HTC, I could not disconect it... not good.

Finally, I continued reading and I found out that IMAP-IDLE is push, and that my zimbra server has IMAP-IDLE, so this layer I though I needed was indeed there, in my zimbra email server!!

Now the only thing I required was to find a client for my Windows Mobile 6 machine that supported IMAP-IDLE:.

I found Flexmail 2007. You can try it for 15 days.

This was just I needed. Push email to my PDA... and just with the right software. It just works!!!

You have other software out there that support IMAP-IDLE like chattermail for your Palm OS.

If you have a IMAP-IDLE server providing your email, then you have push. Just google imap-idle client and your phone and you will find what you need.  

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