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Michael Tabolsky :: Weblog Archives
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Am I a magician?
Well, I am not, but another global white pages wannabe Zoominfo, think I am: 
why? I have no idea, I realy do not know any tricks. I have passed by this image just in time, there are a lot of discussions around the correctenss of spock tags, and especially the ones harvested from on-line profiles by robots. So this image above is just an example, that the contextual serach for personal data doesn't work ye. Even for someone who cares about on-line reputation. Well, I hope the things are going to improve soon ;) Will you spock?
Keywords: people search, personal information, spock
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:12 | 1 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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KDE 4.0
Awaited for a long time, very anticipated, highly provoking, heavily discussed, promisingly shiny, acceptably unstable, stunningly impressive… 
It is released.
Keywords: KDE, KDE4, event, release, Linux
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 21:33 | 4 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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ClubInCall in Action
Cari Soci,
Questo post è una presentazione tecnica di ClubINcall, in realtà è cosi semplice ad usare che basta un paragrafo solo per spiegare come funziona:
Update here: ClubINcall in Action 2: Lost in translations
In qualsiasi momento un netizen (cittadino del Internet) arriva ai vostri profili o blog su www.milanin.com vedrà
sopra la vostra foto il quadratino "Contact" (potete già vedere adesso sulla destra, sopra la mia faccia)
cliccando può inserire il suo numero della linea fissa e cliccare sulla cornetta verde. Il Server Milanin lo contatterà sul numero fisso che ha inserito e il visitatore potrà
così lasciare il messaggio vocale che vi arriverà con posta elettronica. (a costo 0 per voi e per visitatore perché è MilanIN che lo contatta).
Un paio dei step semplicissimi per abilitare:
- Effettuare login
- Andare allo vostro profilo (è compilato in pieno,
vero?) - Cliccare su "Edit profile" sopra
- Girare la rotella di mouse ad a fine della pagina
- Abilitare il ClubINcall/ClubINtext cliccando sul checkbox e cliccare su "Go" sotto
- Sopra la vostra foto c'è il "Contact"!
Se leggete questa riga, vuol dire che sono stato proprio bravo che sono riuscito a tenere la vostra attenzione cosi tanto con la lingua terribile ;) Per sapere di piu` seguite il mio blog, qua faro avvisi dei bugfixing e di features. Se invece avete qualche problema o domanda, non esitare di scrivermi un email, chiamarmi su ClubINcall o andare sul nostro forum alla sezione di supporto tecnico. Grazie per la vostra attenzione e spero che sono stato abbastanza
chiaro e non ho fatto peggio con questi spiegazioni ;)
Alla prossima!
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 23:24 | 7 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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ClubINcall in Action 2: Lost in translations
Dear MilanIN-ers and guests!
After the first business day of ClubINcall in public has come closer to its end, I've already learnt a lot. Thanks to your questions and feedback I could fix one bug in ClubINtext and got another proof that writing non technical documents is not my strongest skill. Especially when it comes to Italian which is so beautiful, varied, multiform and non trivial that complicating the simplest things ever is not a challenge at all for me :). Therefor, I've decided to describe ClubINcall in English, hoping that if someone reads the original explanations in Italian then shakes his head and says "Ma.. .che serve questo aggeggio???" he will have a second chance ;) Or maybe someone who has succeed in extracting idea from the original will help me and will translate the English one (assuming it will be better than Italian).
Now then, what is ClubINcall? It is a service developed by me ad-hoc for Milan IN members that creates a small Contanct Center for a member profile accessible by other members and web site guests. This means that any visitor of your profile may contact you leaving a text or a voice message that will be delivered to you by e-mail.
It is really simple to use, all that is required from a visitor of your profile for leaving voice messages is to have a fixed phone line (landline) in one of the supported countries or a keyboard and creativity for typing a text message. Whenever this visitor gets to your profile or weblog, he can see a "Contact" link above your photo, clicking on it will open a small panel where he should enter his phone number (not your number, his number) and by clicking on the green button he will ask the Milan IN server to call him on the phone and record a voice message for you (the profile owner). This is absolutely gratis for both profile visitor and you since the phone call is offered by Milan IN. If the profile visitor does not have a phone line, or his country is not supported, he still can drop you a text note.
So, how to start using it, or how to make this thing to appear on your profile? Simple!
- login first, then go to your profile editor
- scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will see two options ClubINcall and ClubINtext, which respectively refer to the Voice Messages and Text Messages.
- check these boxes to enable it and verify the desired access rights, just like all the profile details your contact centre can be seen by either anybody (PUBLIC), Club Members (LOGGEDIN) or nobody but you (PRIVATE).
- click on the "save" and you have "Contact" above you profile picture!
Follow my blog for updates and news!
Keywords: ClubINcall
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:23 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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dedicated hosting
Below is a message I’ve got from support of an Italian ISP which hosts one of the servers I occasionally manage….Literally it says: Dear Michael Tabolsky,
Hereby inform you, that because of the errors suring the boot process it is not possible to bring the server online, the only solution is to reinstall the OS. Please let us know if you need to recover data from the server.
At your disposal for further clarifications Gentile Michael Tabolsky,
Le comunico che non è possibile avviare la macchina a causa degli errori in fase di boot, l’unica soluzione e reinstallare l’OS, ci faccia sapere se deve recuperare dati dal server.
Rimaniamo a disposizione per ulteriori chiarimenti.
Speechless, just … well.. yeah, what kind of … well, why do they sign their e-mail as “Staff”?!?! Should it bring me back to the Italian services question? I don’t know if it’s a normal practice in other countries, neither I know if it is a normal practice in Italy. First time I’ve been thrown such a thing into the face:( P.S. such a crash has already happen with Milan IN server, and our hoster did not behave like that .... In fact, they offered various solutions and started from READING the error messages ...
Keywords: ISP, hosting, Italian service
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 18:24 | 1 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Nokia to acquire Trolltech?
As reported by Trolltech here Trolltech makes software (QT, Qtopia, etc.) used in embedded platforms based on Linux and their Qtopia platform is already adapted for many devices including cell phones. It is a direct competor of Symbian OS. Is Nokia going to support both? Dump one of them in favor of other? Spooky news ;)
Keywords: , nokia, qtopia, symbian, qt
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 08:36 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Nokia to acquire Trolltech!
In its letter to open source community they say: Nokia is committed to continue Trolltech’s current open source engagements, including
honoring the KDE Free Qt agreement, and we will seek to strengthen our support of KDE
in the future. As a first step Nokia will apply to become a Patron of KDE. Which is no doubt good news, put the Nokia into this list: Patrons of KDE and you will get pretty impressive supporting team ;)
Keywords: kde, qt, qtopia, trolltech, nokia
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 18:46 | 2 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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