http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/HTML/Specifications shows, that current version of HTML is 4.01 and version 5 is in draft only...but in the same time everybody is proving compliance with it. Big fun...that we're all using beta version of something and we're happy from it :)

I decided to make quick and dirty comparison of some parameters of selected OS. I measured values once, because for me it was the most interesting to get only quantity. I have selected number of bytes written/read from HDD and number of bytes sent/received over network. Why ?

People are using more and more often SSD/flash memories, which have specified number of write cycles and people are using more and more often network connections with data limits.

Here are results, I have used mainly values observed by VirtualBox functions:

DOC, DOCX, PDF, EPUB, ODT, CHM,....

There were many formats of documents created over years, ISTQB provides own glossary in PDF format. I decided to convert it some time ago to form of Android application: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mwiacek.istqb.glossary. You can search topics, jump to related topics, etc. Small, fast, effective.

Are you working a lot with computers ? Are your eyes tired because of it ? Yes, the most often they are.

In various places we can read, that PC (Personal Computers like notebooks and desktops) are less and less popular.

What can be reason for it ?

Standard X86 platform is of course much better and faster, but... many users complain about generally worse quality, worse screens and various "revolutionary" solutions (which allow to save few $ for manufacturers, but make a lot of problems for users).

I decided to compare a little bit 2007 and 2012 years...

This time short info. Yesterday I have found https://github.com/cyanogenmod/android_vendor_cm/blob/ics/prebuilt/commo... and http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/APN_List files. Nice initiative, but I decided not to use it.

Reasons are simple:

Small thing found few days ago, which hangs FF 11: file

When it will be fixed ? Look into https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/970431

Michal Čihař:

as you probably noticed that I'm not so active here as I used to be, I've written down something about Gammu future on my blog: http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2012/01/27/future-gammu/?utm_source=ml

Marcin Wiącek (me):

I wish all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. For people understanding Polish language small poem...

Like promised I have closed gammu.org in current form.

Started 1 April 2005 under gammu.net address, in April 2006 was moved into current domain (gammu.org).

First in the form of static pages, later created using MediaWiki.

I was publishing there some non GSM texts too, tried to make some phone database with info about firmware changes, versions, pictures....

Big shame, but don't worry...

What next ?

Two interesting articles from last time: Microsoft: 30 Million Windows Phone 7 devices will be sold by the end of 2011 and Nokia top model N900 sales below 100,000: Gartner

My answer: first is system, which will probably not have many features known from competitors. Second is system, which was not supported correctly by own manufacturer. How could you think, that they could be successful ?

July 2008 - Brad Brooks, Microsoft's VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing: "We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain. It got customers thinking, hey, is Windows Vista a generation we want to get invested in?"

Sep 2009 - Steven Ballmer, Microsoft: "We 'screwed up with Windows Mobile'"

As you probably know, I'm hosting some content (articles, materials, etc.) on the gammu.org. Some time ago I have decided, that it's not updated from longer time and additionally MediaWiki is not developed too much. I have decided to make some reorganization:

1. moving all non-GSM content to the mwiacek.com (this page)

During few last weeks I was working on refreshing this site. Yesterday I have decided, that beta version is "good enough" to be published. And here it is !

This is naturally not the end.

In next days I will work on some pending minor things (like setting better categories for posts, improving formatting in some articles or adding some old articles/pages) and later create new articles and sections :)

Any comments or suggestions ?

From the simple static HTML pages to PHP code and now finally to CRM created and managed content. Few important dates:

• 14 March 1999 - first version of this page created on non-existing now free.com.pl
• page is available under alias marcin-wiacek.topnet.pl
• page content was published on the CD attached to the number 7/1999 of Polish Internet magazine.
• created mirror on the fkn.pl