UMTS- / Surf-Stick von o2 unter Ubuntu 11.10 einrichten und betreiben

Hallo @all,

ich wollte mein UMTS-Stick von o2 (MF100 von ZTE Corp.) unter Ubuntu einrichten. Dafür habe ich diese Seite benutzt.

Gruß,
Andrey

Brother DCP-J315W under Ubuntu: installation and configuration

Hello everyone,

a month ago I changed from Debian to Ubuntu. Actually, I had to do, because I ruined my Debian installation.

I will report about my migration later, now I want to tell about installing my printer/scanner Brother DCP-J315W under Ubuntu. This nice page describes, how to do it. It costed me something like 10 minutes to install the printer. Very-very nice! As I said earlier, Brother-devices rule!

Regards,
Andrey

"Brother DCP J315W" rules!

Hi,

this week-end I installed my new all-on-one device "Brother DCP J315W". I'm really impressed by that device. Everything ran smoothly, I could install both USB- and WLAN/WiFi-connections for the printer. I even could install both printer and scanner under Linux! This is amazing.

I will report about printing and scanning quality later.

Cheers,
Andrey

New all-in-one printer is there!

Hello @all,

it's time to replace my old "Olivetti SIMPLE_WAY" with a new device. I just bought "Brother DCP-J315W". Review comes later.

Cheers,
Andrey

I have passed Microsoft exam 70-445!

Hello @everyone,

this week I passed Microsoft exam 70-445 "TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence - Development and Maintenance". This exam gave me a title of MCTS. Nice! I'm really glad, because that was my Big Goal in the last time.

Cheers,
Andrey

Blocking of mails sent by "DB Mail" in SQL Server 2005/8: check your antivirus-software!

Hello, my mail delivery from SQL Server using "DB Mail" feature failed. After some reserach I found this blog:
Wise man or Wise guy? You decide: Mystery of Failing Database Mail

So, keep in mind: if "DB Mail" doesn't work, check your antivirus.

Cheers,
Andrey

Ubuntu on HP nx9030: short feedback

Hello @all,

a friend of mine donated me his old laptop, because he knew I was interested in playing with Linux and laptops. The present is an HP nx9030 with following properties: Pentium Mobile 1,6 GHZ (Centrino), 512 MB RAM, no HDD (he kept it because of data), 32 MB of video-memory (shared), WLAN module + some standard ports. Detailed info can be found here. I took a Live-CD with Ubuntu 9.04 and started the laptop. And it simply worked. Nice... I even could use WLAN without any problems. It ran a bit slow, but I could live with it taking into account that Linux hat to do everything (including SWAP) in RAM.

So, my conclusion: if you need an ordinary "working horse" for office tasks (writing/reading mails, typing documents, Internet surfing), than you may take nx9030 without any hesitation. It's designed for Windows XP and works fine under Linux Ubuntu - even without HDD.

I personally have Thinkpad T43p, my wife - T23. But I decided to keep that HP laptop for emergency case. If something goes wrong with ours, we will be able to go online and work even in the current (limited) configuration.

Best wishes from Hamburg,
Andrey