Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

Lot of work had been done in last few days and seems like time is flying even faster. I was busy with different kind of things. I try to expand my USB connectors and I must tell you this is nightmare. You never know what is 2.o and what is 1.1 until you connected. I tried about four types of hubs, but none of them really worked perfectly. I expand number of my USB devices quite a lot in last few days and still having a problem with connecting all of them the way they work fast and do not block each other.
I also got new mobile from my friend xenon :-D, we spent some nice time in school holidays about 10 days ago in his home in Germany. We visited great museum and saw Concorde and TU-144 among other things like, Ferrari's, porches. It was great time, but those not complete four days just went too fast.
I am also trying to setup my satellite receiver which has Linux in it. Fighting with it quite a lot as I need to use my cryptoworks card to descramble certain channels. I like to get rid of cable TV as it is become very expensive.

And so life goes. I have got few inquiries about my web shop and what is about month eBay post. Well I am sorry for all that myself. It is again the end of month and I have next chance, will see if I miss it this time again. 1. November is the date when I open my web shop last year. I closed it six month after it. 1. Nov seven years ago is also date when we move to The Netherlands. It seems to be all too much symbolic. So I should use it for something magic :-)

As I am switching job in short while I was also busy to solve ever lasting problem to have private email, links, notes and all other stuff on one place and accessible wherever I go. One think is buy some device, PDA or small notebook or something. But that you get tot he situation I already was that you get notebook from your work and you need to carry two. I do not like put my personal stuff to office notebook. On other hand even if I would do that, I have another problem: using both home computer and work computer, so half of mails is on one and half on other and also links, email addresses and so.
PDA solution seems to be nice as you can sync with both computers, even it is not always working. But there is even bigger problem and that is that PDA has limited choice of soft and you can easily run (and you surely will) that you like to use something which fits your needs better that what is available for you PDA.
So I choose USB solution. I have my soft and my data on USB stick. I bought 1GB, USB 2.0 stick. I am running now portable Opera, GAIM and some other tools from it. It is reasonable fast and I have the same data and soft every time I have windows computer near me. So home and at work. Possible problem could be that you may be using different Operating systems, than you could have emulation and boot from USB inside of your hosting OS. This of course has impact on speed. But in my case it is windows is 98% of the time.

I also get little boost with nice PDA I have got from my friend, so even in rare occasions I need to connect to Internet make photo or write note I can use this PDA for it. I think I have found nice solution