Zoho mail ... waste of time...?

I used to have my personal domain on the google apps, but google sucks a lot because:

(a) needs "google services" in every device in order to connect with eg. google docs, so devices
     like BB10 can't use anything on google except mail/cal/contacts
(b) the google docs are completely crap, you can't edit native xls/doc, they are converted to that
      google format, yes, you have to save (export) if you want to read your xls/doc outside
      google

so, I started looking for alternative emai/cal/contacts hosting....

I managed to connect my domain with  zoho, the email works fine, but there is NO way to sync contacts/calendar with the BB10, well the support @ zoho seems a bit pathetic btw, I am not sure if their mobile activesync sucks...

Update:

Zoho replied to my support request, its Blackberry's fault!

Usually we will get initial request very slowly for syncing data from Blackberry devices through Exchange ActiveSync. Please contact mobile manufacturer regarding this.

and I have to add they are right, as I managed to sync my zoho account with an android device very quick!

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!

FPGA vs Emulators...

Just I grabbed the Xmas opportunity and organised a meeting with friends, you know typical stuff like beer, bs food and retro consoles. Just our conversation went to FPGAs vs Emulators, as we had a MIST there and one guy brought his DE2 , quite a beast btw.

Well, the winner is ... EMULATORS! Believe it not, the "emulation" on the FPGA (cores) is not better than an emulator that is running on a pc.

Just compare the Hatari (Windows) or Steem SSE (windows) with the core on the MIST, well some guy demonstrated the MIST's AtariST high speed and an high-mono screen mode, some limited I can say as the Hatari (1.8.0) can even have 040, high speed (from 32Mhz to FastForward pressing Alt+X) and better VDI resolutions up to 16 colors.
In addition the Hatari can read MSA and STX images and play ALL of the ST Demos, something that is impossible on MIST (ST core) now!

Some examples:

Apple2 emulator (AppleWin) vs the Apple2 emul on MIST , just limited to a format of disk images that I never bothered to convert all of my .dsk images to .nib

C64, WinVICE 64  that supports a hell of peripherals like Carts and 4 drives like 1541, 1581 vs a core that just loads PRG.

ZX Spectrum, Fuse (what else!) has a jawdrop features incl. divide vs the ZX Spectrum core that just loads TAP (tape images , not even TZX) with REAL TAPE speed!!

NES, MESS vs a core that is not compatible 100% with the NES.

ZX81, EightyOne vs the core that can only run standalone programs (dot P) not even full tape images.

Amiga,  WinUAE with PPC support vs the current core that just matured to support AGA, with some issues and just 68020 the maximum CPU can handle.

Just my mate Jake told me the FPGAs are nice because its a instant turn-on / run the core / play, well that's correct, but at the same time my wii can have a hell of emulators too! Also, what my friend Jake forgot to tell me is that he TRIED 3 different monitors till to find one that is compatible with all of the cores! LOL now.

I know there is some FPGA called FPGAarcade, a bit pricey I think and with limited availability , but you can have a 060 , seems useful only for Amiga core, but I bet it will have its limitations like the other FPGA devices there.

Hatari ... in a browser!

Yes,  its true, now you can have an ST in the browser (Firefox for now, as the emulator is crawling under chrome... LOL) for more info: http://absencehq.de/union/