tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19117112586529029922026-03-31T16:27:14.699+03:00...or not...stezzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09549387203653634355noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911711258652902992.post-81698203216676859322014-01-10T21:09:00.003+02:002014-01-10T21:09:49.842+02:00

What have we done... I had some time to sit down and think recently and give some perspective to the year that passed by. (The post is obviously looking to my life at Jolla even though that has been big part of my life it is not the only thing that happened during this year but don't worry I won't talk about that :D) January, Jolla had 50-something employees, we were looking for a System on

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I write this open letter to the communities out there inspired by Misha and Lucien telling a bit of "behind the scenes" in Jolla. About openness and communities. I have been involved in Meego (named OSSO and Maemo before that) since 2005 when I moved to Finland and started working in Nokia. Few months after I started working in Nokia the 770 Internet Tablet was released and since then I have

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(I am still surprised someone still reads this blog as my last update was almost a year ago... but it seems that some crazy guy still visits this... Thanks!) Anyway back on the topic I had in mind, random thoughts about stuff and technology. If you don't know I am working as CTO of Jolla, a finnish based mobile phone company, and I had a lot of different discussions lately with startups here in

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Note: those are my personal opinions and by no mean I pretend those to constitute a universal truth. I had the chance to read several curricula over the last few years and to be honest a very tiny percentage of that was something that I found enjoyable. The thing is when you are reviewing CVs for a position you are facing a hard situation: there are something like 100-150 persons that want your

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I tried to stay away from the new config type in LDAP introduced in v.2.3 as much as I could but today I had to face it. I understand the reasons behind but I have to say that the docs are pretty scarce and any newbie has a pretty steep learning curve ahead especially if used to the old way of configuring LDAP. The configuration now is in ldif format and it follows a pretty logical scheme which

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Say you secured so much your AWS server you can only login with SSH keys there. And you have only one SSH key that can access that server. And you lost your SSH key or forgot the passphrase for it. Are you damned to lose all that work you have poured into that machine? Probably not, if you have the luxury of some downtime. AWS does not have any (easy) way to just change the SSH key that can

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To all my friends in Finland (if I didn't send you an email already): it's that time of the year. If interested in good food from Italy go and fill the webform (now improved usability!) http://bit.ly/omRLY2 I hope to have all the orders by mid September (in 3 weeks), place the order in 4 and get the stuff within the second week of October. If everything goes fine :)

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Well it wasn't (and it's still not) easy to run the IT behind harmattan/N9. But we made it. And the feedback on the device is just bursting for us behind the scenes. The whole Nokia/MeeGo team has pulled off a beautiful device against all odds. It's true that difficulties makes you stronger. I am proud of all my team and all my colleagues. Thank you all for making it the most challenging and

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In python unittest the setUp function gets called every time you need to run a single TestCase (no matter if you run it using TestSuite or simply unittest.main()). So if you have to test something that requires a complex setUp routine (like loading 50000 records from SQL or preparing an orangemochafrappuccino) but that can be reused all along your TestSuite you have the same problem I had. Now

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When using unittest in python you often need to mock objects and calls to those objects. You don't need _an_entire_ LDAP server just to test a search nor you need a full blown SMTP server to test a function that accidentally sends a mail (that you don't want to send while testing anyway). So minimock is one easy way (the easiest I found) to do the job. What the docs don't really tell you (nor

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A loooong time ago I bought this SIP router, the DLink DVG-2001S. After years of using it and being bothered by the infamous call waiting alert I got fed up and tried to get rid of it. Obviously no freaking way you can do that through the web interface... luckily that didn't stop me from doing telnet to the device and hacking a bit into it. telnet &lt ip_device_of_your_device &gt 23 sip showThis

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If you were distracted in the last 3 days and forgot that Debian 'stable' became 'squeeze' last Sunday, or just inadvertently issude 'apt-get upgrade' on your lenny machine, wondering why you had more than 200 packages to update, but still pressing Yes Yes Yes... well you have done the thing I did at least  on one of my servers... But no problem, downgrading is easy in apt. Just put:

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So I was all happy about my new TomTom that I decided to upgrade the maps to the latest version (for free since it was the first time). That turned out in an unbelievably long and painful operation. First attempt. Connect the device to the computer and just push the upgrade button. "You don't have enough space on the device. Choose what area you want to upgrade" No, thanks I want the whole

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[This post is sponsored by Misha]This is the way it's called all over the world even though we call it in Italy "Pasta al ragù" (the ragù is "alla bolognese").It's mainly made of tomato and minced meat BUT not only of that (and this is basically the difference between the one you find in "JukkaPekka's restaurant" and a proper italian one).INGREDIENTS for 4 persons1/2 onion1 carrota bit of persil1

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I've come across an economic measure called Gini index, the index is commonly used as a measure of inequality of income or wealth. A low Gini coefficient indicates a more equal distribution, with 0 corresponding to complete equality, while higher Gini coefficients indicate more unequal distribution, with 1 corresponding to complete inequality.So I got interested in what the Gini coefficient might

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In case you'd like working in Maemo, we're looking (also) for an IT specialist:

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Regarding creating users and permissions our beloved Debian Policy [chap. 10.9] tells us:...you must arrange for your package to create the user or group if necessary using adduser in the preinst or postinst script (again, the latter is to be preferred if it is possible). I wanted to stick to the postinst since it's preferrable so I couldn't change the permissions in the rules file.Now the thing

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After I read the post of Urho about Wiimote+DrNokSnes+TVout I couldn't help trying it out right away (except the Wiimote thing that I don't have). That was a funny jump back in time to when I was young and passed the evenings at a friend's apartment trying to finish the (amazing at that time) Super Mario bros on the NES (I didn't have a NES myself).Besides that I tried out for the first time in

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Geniale vignetta di Beppemora.

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Oggi mi sveglio, una giornata come tante altre e scopro che il nostro mitico Silvio presidentone nazionale (il migliore degli ultimi 150 anni) si candida (o si vorrebbe candidare, o lo vorrebbero candidare, ancora non ho capito) al premio Nobel per la pace.Si avete capito bene premio Nobel per la pace.Come se io mi candidassi al premio Nobel per la letteratura.Non contento della messa in scena

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Ennesima versione del video di Hitler... stavolta in salsa italiana :)

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Well this is a really nice way to waste your time: Translation Party.You write a phrase in english and it will translate it back and forth from english to Japanese until the phrases will match in 2 consecutive translations.I entered this:Whatever you say it's wrong and I will disagree with that until you prove it rightand the equilibrium was at this point:And, right or wrong, I have evidence to

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Following the series of 'cooking at home' here is our first home made bread.Incredibly enough the first attempt is really good :)

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Oh finally we announced this thing. Still can't talk about it that much :(The video looks great though :)

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Image by Aaron Landry via Flickr(this is for Sotiris and Francesco)In a struggle to find the perfect mix of flours here in Finland I managed to get close to something good with this recipe.Ingredients * 50% of Erikoisvehnäjauho * 30% of Durum Vehnäjauho * 20% of HiivaleipäjauhoI usually make 1 Kg of dough I also put: * 3/4 (0.75) of a glass of olive oil (extra virgin it's maybe better, don't use

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