Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Migrating Zaurus AddressBook database to OS X Address Book

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

This is the second article about the data migration from Sharp Zaurus to Nokia N800. This time it is about the PIM information, particularly the Address Book contents. Actually you can do it using the desktop software, but in my case I did not have this option. Zaurus does not synchronize with Mac and, in [...]

Migrating Zaurus Keyring database to N800 PasswordSafe

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I have got a new toy - Nokia N800. I hope it is going to be a good successor of my old Sharp Zaurus which was my favorite PDA for last 6 years and was given to me by my former boss at Sun. My first problem with N800 was to migrate some data [...]

Using GNU Date - tricky date/time manipulations

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I love shell scripting. This is something that the typical Windows users usually do not understand. They have to download tons of buggy shareware utilities to do something simple. In UNIX you can do a lot of tricky things with the standard tools that come with the system (in case of Linux - for free). [...]

Tiny PCs for the embedded servers

Friday, October 12th, 2007

In this post I am planning to gather information about various small PCs suitable for building little embedded servers running Linux. The information will be updated from time to time.

fit-PC
AMD CPU, 256Mb DDR (non-expandable), 40Gb HDD, 2×100 Mbit Ethernet, 2xUSB 2.0, RS-232
Power consumption: 5 watt (!)
Cost: $285 + $40 shipping
decTOP
128 Mb [...]