BB10 how to sync without the shit Blackberry Link...

Its just some days that I deleted the crap from BB, called 'Link', in fact I used it just to move (one way mirror) files from the desktop to the BB.

What I am using now is more 80s like,  but works way better than installing the crap from BB, its just sync via FTP ;-) , to be more precise I am using the lftp, its mainly for Linux, MacOSX version via macports, there is a pre-compiled version for windoze around.

On the BB10 I installed an FTP server app from the google play, I installed it via the Snap as I don't like the Amazon store that BB included by default.

The whole magic is a shell script like this (script for MacOSX) :

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lftp -u USERNAME,PASSWORD -p PORT IP << EOF
set ftp:list-options -a

mirror -c -e -R ./files1 /accounts/1000/removable/sdcard/files1 --exclude *.bak
mirror -c -e -R ./Documents /accounts/1000/shared/documents --exclude
EOF

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Its very simple, just pay attention to the paths and don't forget to put the correct PORT number.

the BB10 the paths are :
internal storage .............  /accounts/1000/shared/
(removable) sdcard  ......  /accounts/1000/removable/sdcard/

 
Also, you can exclude files by using the --exclude parameter, for example to avoid sync files like backup files.
 

Latest BB10 10.3.1 ... the shit continues...

Seems its the last time I am using Blackberry devices, they may be *great* for business (just mail/calendar/contacts etc)  or idiots that spend the whole day chating/fb/bbm bullshit /games, but in comparison to android the BB10 is just a shit. I recently realised that the notes app crashed and could not find a solution... well, the only option was to make an 'OS refresh' == fuck everything on the device the install again... the backup was useless could not restore for unknown reason, so I spend 5 nice hours playing with the shit blackberry.... 



well, on my previous android i could backup / re install the OS / restore in less than 1hr, I even had the ability to delete settings on applications that has issues, without loosing a fucking BIT of the other installed apps.

Blackberry was GREAT , at least until the version 7.1 of the BBOS, then the 10 looks like a mixed shit as they tried (and failed) to implement compatibility with the android apps, as the BB world is full of shit, really.

As for the 10.3.1 , hm,  has some bugs, like you can't increase the font/size of the app launcher, again the android app compatibility is more/less the same shit, screen flickers on some apps, in sort : designed by morons.

Hell, no, I am not going back to android, ata least official, I prefer something that is Cyanogenmod compatible.

Kanotix nightly build - 2015 on Chromebook

The darn thing is working like a charm....

I had the impression that Kanotix was dead/abandoned something like this, as various sources like distrowatch does not mention the 2014 - or later-  builds of it, in fact there are fresh nightly builds!

I bit the bullet killed again my latest installation of linux on my chromebook and installed the (nightly) Kanotix Spitfire 2015 KDE x64.

It was nice to see that the most of the packages are not old, eg Libreoffice is v4.4.0.3, kernel 3.18.0 (not the latest, but more recent than the 3.16xx that some debian-based distros are using), so far so good -just a couple of hours lol- the chromebook boots very quick to the KDE desktop. 

Update (18/2)

It seems that the Kanotix is under constant development..  I had some issues like freezes while the shutdown and screen artifacts on the screen. Never mind, its a nice distro, but not for everyday use!

Mouse theme on various linux desktops

Since I started to use laptops with small screens I ve found a bit probematic to track where the heck is the mouse cursor, mind most of them they have a native resulution like 1360x768 everyting less makes them useful for terminal apps only, try to use the web on 800x60, its not 90s anymore and the motherfuckers web designers put every shit on the web pages....

To say the truth the only DE in linux , so far I managed to have mouse cursor consistency is KDE!

This can be possible for other DE like xfce, but the most of the distros use the cocksucking lightdm !!
So, I usually install a different login manager like slim .. problem solved!