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Facebook chat now supports Jabber!

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

Yes, it’s true & great news: Facebook chat can now be used over any XMPP / Jabber client, like Pidgin and Kopete. Go to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php to see your settings. Here’s a screenshot of the settings:

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How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

Great tips for everyone running Open Source projects! Also do check the awesome blog post by one of the KDE project leaders: Building community around your FOSS project.

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Fixing Openmoko hardware bug #1024

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

Stuff has bugs, both hardware and software. One of the hardware bugs in Openmoko phones has been bug number #1024 causing things to happen that prevent the GSM chip to go to ‘deep sleep’ mode to save power. Someone came … Continue reading →

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Wikireader – You be the expert

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

Openmoko Inc, the company behind the Openmoko Freerunner Linux phones released their new product, Wikireader. It’s a small device to read Wikipedia offline. The files are stored on uSD card, also the small Linux kernel is supposedly loaded from the … Continue reading →

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Onko sinulla GPS-laite? Tule mukaan tekemään Youloc-palvelua sille!

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Risto H. Kurppa

Short in English: see www.youloc.net! Jotta kiinnostuisit hommasta, vilkaise ensin sivua proto.youloc.net. Klikkaa kartalla näkyvää vihreää pistettä niin näet nimen, nopeuden ja koordinaatit. Jep, se on joku nykyisistä youloc.net -prototyypin käyttäjistä tai simuloitu liikkuja. Klikkaamalla ‘zoom in and follow’ näet … Continue reading →

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