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I don’t even have a chance to share tips about Linux installation on my IBM X60. I lost it at Madrid Barajas International Airport two weeks ago, the laptop is bought at August last year.

Actually, I don’t really know if my laptop is stolen or I just forgot it at some where. After more then 15 hours flight and carry a big coat. I were really fucking tired, and were not aware of my shoulder bag is gone. Especially I were hurry on the way to hotel. (I don’t know why my companion is always so rash. :-/)

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Thanks to YK, I’m one of the few lucky guys who can take la Fonera home.

Last Sunday, I attended to the Firefox 2 Party at Taiwan, and met Jordi Vallejo and YK again. We shares the new progress of FON.com last few weeks. Finally, FON.com is going to setup a new office in Taipei and sell La Fonera at December. FON.com is linking La Fonera with several services on the internet, and will provide new devices integrated with these creative features. They are also looking for people who can help to port the firmware on the hardware platforms. We exchanged some ideas and development informations on the wireless router, and YK gave me the new Fonera which was showing in the Firefox 2 Party.

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Last Saturday, I went to Taipei Fine Arts Museum for PORTA2030 which is presenting by TAKE2030 at the Taipei Biennale 2006. The Taipie Biennale 2006 is from 2006/11/04 to 2007/02/25.

(If you can not read the PORTA2030 web pages, change the browser character encoding setting into UTF-16 little endian.)

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In the late 1990s, DigitalConvergence.:Com (now-defunct) developed a barcode reader named :CueCat, which is a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader. The :CueCat enabled people to link to an Internet website by scanning a 1D barcode. It’s a cool idea. But, the commercial was failed, because they used proprietary data format which being scrambled. The other problem is privacy issue. Each :CueCat device has a unique serial number to profiling and tracking of users. As Joel Spolsky said, the whole business model is actually a Chicken and Egg Syndrome. You just can not make people use a system they don’t trust, and the manufacturer will not pay to license the ability to create the proprietary barcodes for a system nobody uses. :CutCat was selected as top 10 worst products at 2005 by CNET. For more information about :CutCat, please visit How to Neuter a :Cat.

The CueCat barcode scanner.
by Chris Tomkins-Tinch, license under the GFDL.

It’s not a good idea to create a proprietary system for mass market, even the devices are free giveaway. Only public standard can survive on the market. QRCode is one of examples which is widely used in Japan, and soon in Taiwan and China. QRCode is kind of 2D barcode which can store more information then 1D barcode. For example, you can store addresses and URLs in QRCode. In Japan, it’s increasingly common in magazines and advertisements. Another common use is putting QR Code on business cards, it’s greatly simplifying the task of entering the personal details into the phone book of one’s mobile phone. There are some companies provide business cards design services with QR Code. (Ex: ＱＲコード名刺！スピード印刷！ぷりんと王国) For more information about QRcode, please read my another entry mobile barcode (It’s in Chinese, Sorry. But you can read the images and video. 🙂 ).

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A visitor lef a comment on my post “Linux Mobile Phone“. I try to answer this question here.

ohhh, You get a very thorough and impressive analysis here, as well as many insightful opinions.

I agree almost of your saying and share the same concern on mobile ecosystem progress in the approaching rich media era. With your great passion in this arena, you could be a great active PM to influce in this revolution.

But I wonder how does the factor plays between Technology Push and Market Pull here. Will be the customised phone more easily to use by the ordinary consumer?

Hi, Lu. I appreciate that you like my post, and you asked a very good question. I wrote that entry for hackers who want to build a mobile phone for themselves, and gave my view on linux-based mobile phone standards. It might be too geeky. However, I can answer your question in my humble opinion.

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The software is updated at 2010/10/05.

I use Evolution with Microsoft exchange server in office for 2 years. It’s a pretty good software which is integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality, a groupware suite that all I need for office productivity.

However, when you use a email client for a long time, the e-mails will take more and more disk space. Especially, when you exchange many attachments with the other people. I have to keep the e-mails for record, but the attachments are all filed. I don’t want them to take my disk space anymore. I would like to save some space for really important project. It’s time to get rid of them. I need a plugin for remove these attachments.

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