Ivan Kuznetsov

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  • Leaving Nokia

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    As some of you may know, I have decided to leave Nokia and go back into the start-up world. My last day is only in the end of May, but the decision was made long time ago, and information seems to travel too fast, so I decided to publicly announce it already now. I am…

  • Using Trac for agile project management

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    By now I’ve been using Trac more than two years for managing various projects – from very small ones with just a few people involved (combining in themselves developers, testers and product owners) to large ones with more than 20 people (both in private projects and in Nokia – yes, yes, some Nokia projects are…

  • What’s new in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jakalope

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    It was a fun weekend. I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my Lenovo T61 and installed it instead of Windows Vista on my wife’s new Dell Vostro 1510. Both upgrade and installation on both machines went without a single hickup, which was a positive surprise after my last experience with Ubuntu upgrade.

  • The lifestyle business bullshit

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    David on 37Signal’s Signal vs. Noise blog wrote that there’s no need to sacrifice yourself to work to be successful. “It’s been a long time since there was a direct correlation with the number of hours you work and the success you enjoy.” It’s one of those “my thoughts exactly” posts. Taneli Tikka futher develops…

  • Introducing Moozement

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    Last year I got involved in the development of a new social network – Moozement. There are plenty of social networks out there, there are even white label social networks. So why create another one? Jyri Engeström wrote some time ago about the case for object-centered sociality: “‘social networking’ makes little sense if we leave…

  • Back to business

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    2008 has been a hectic year – with all the changes – bulding a house, travelling, moving, having a new arrival in the family, new position in Nokia, and a side venture-like project, there was practically no time for blogging. Now things are starting to get back to normal – and I’m hoping to be…

  • Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron or “Ubuntu sucks… get a Mac”

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    I should admit – I shamelessly borrowed part of the title for this post from Tyler. I had exactly same feeling after upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. I’ve been meaning to write about this upgrade for almost two months now. Right after Ubuntu 8.04 was released I upgraded two of my laptops from Ubuntu…

  • Sampo bank software upgrade, Ubuntu and beta culture

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    Even if you are not Sampo bank’s customer, but live in Finland, you have most probably heard by now about continuous problems Sampo had with their web-bank system. When Sampo launched the new system this Easter, they took into use Java-based authentication system. Of course it didn’t work in my Ubuntu 7.10, but after removing…

  • I have been hacked

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    Yes, for the second time in my life. First time it was still in my university years. In those times if you had internet access at home, you were priveleged. Companies were paying quite a lot of money to get a slow 28K dial-up connection, and internet providers were charging per minute, not by gigabyte.…

  • Moving /home to its own partition

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    After upgrading Ubuntu to 8.04 I decided it would be a good idea to finally move /home folder to a separate partition. It makes it much easier to make backups and reinstall operating system if all data/configurations are safely stored on their own partition. Without installing additional hard drive (which would be impractical for laptop…