iphone 3G – 9 June ?

According to rlslog.net the new 3G iphone should be here on 9 June.

So let’s see

zbozi z USA a clo/dan

Jiz delsi dobu se zbyvam otazkou jak legalne privezt zbozi z USA v ramci legalnich moznosti a vlozit si naklady (cenu/clo/dan) na firmu. Abych pravdu rekl, nez jsem zacal podnikat, tak jsem to neresil, naopak clovek hleda zpusoby jak to mit nejlevnejsi a musim rict ze ten nejlevnejsi zpusob je i bezstarostny.

Asi vite ze existuji firmy, ktere vam ulehci nakup v USA. Prevazne postup je stejny:

• predplatite si rocni pouzivani
• dostanete fiktivni adresu v USA
• koupite si zbozi pomoci kreditky a nechate si to poslat na vasi fiktivni adresu
• tam jsou lide, kteri vas upozorni ze vam prisel “balik” a po vzajemne dohode vam ho preposlou do CR

Pokud se ptate proc rovnou si to nenechate poslat do CR, tak odpoved je ta, ze hodne firem v USA nechce posilat zbozi mimo USA kontinent.

• zasilkovasluzba.com – presne popsany postup
• shipito.com – oproti zasilkove sluzbe maji tu vyhodu, ze kdyz natrefite na obchodnika, ktery bere jen US kreditky, tak vam tato firma umozni pouzit jejich US kreditku ke koupi vaseho zbozi

CLO / DPH

Kdyz Vam takto poslany balik prijde postou do CR, tak celnici jej zabavi a upozorni Vas ze tam mate zasilku. (Po dohode s zasilkovasluzba.com / shipito.com se da domluvit aby neposilaly faktury pribalene k baliku). Nasledne Vas vyzvou aby jste napsali cenu za kterou jste to koupili (kdyz celnici nenajdou faktury) a vy uvedete cenu. Pozor, oni nejsou blbi

Nasledne se zjisti zda se plati nejake clo na Vase zbozi. Vim ze na elektroniku/notebooky dovazene z USA je clo 0,- Kc. Takze Vam vymeri jen DPH. Vy je zaplatite a pokud jste platcem DPH tak se Vam zpatky vrati.

Avsak co delat, kdyz Vam znamy priveze elektroniku a nikdo ho nikde nezastavi? Po par dnech zjistovani jsem nasel legalni zpusob:

1. s fakturou zajet na celnici – nejblizsi v Ostrave je v Paskove
2. poprosit DHL at vam pomuze vypsat celni doklady (pry to delaji za 100)
3. zajit za celnikama s americkou fakturou. (pozor faktura musi byt na Vase jmeno a nejlepe i na vasi ceskou adresu, ale pry jsou tolerantni a berou i ty americke adresy (tady je problem jak dat fakturu s americkou adresou do ucetnictvi)
4. Vymeri clo pres TARIC (je to oficialni soft na vymereni cla pro celniky) zde je jednodussi zpusob – jinak notebook je pod cislem 8471300 (trida XVI -> Kapitola 84 -> 8471 -> 8471 30)
5. Vymeri DPH
6. K vymereni clo/dph se pocita kurz ze stranek Celni spravy Ceske republiky
7. no a stakto vymerenym clem/DPH jdete rovnou za ucetni

No a nakonec nejake odkazy a taky postovne od shipita

VoIP and DTMFx

I have at home VoIP which works fine and without any problems except one. When I have conference call mostly hosted by AT&T you have to dial in and then insert participants code. Whenever I was inserting participants code it tells me that I have wrong number.

Calling my operator support figure out that there is one setting which has to be changed.

Go to EXT (extension) and set the DTMF Tx Method: to INFO.

oracle – moving tablespace

This hack is taken from friends site.

I want to move my tablespace from C: to my fileserver

ALTER TABLESPACE TEST OFFLINE;

ALTER TABLESPACE TEST RENAME DATAFILE 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\ORADATA\DEMO\TEST.ORA' TO '\\192.168.1.2\DISK 1\TEST.ORA';

ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE;

ALTER TABLESPACE TEST ONLINE;

Or you can create them right away in fileserver

CREATE SMALLFILE TABLESPACE "TEST" DATAFILE '\\192.168.1.2\disk 1\test.ora' SIZE 400M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 1M MAXSIZE UNLIMITED LOGGING EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;

oracle 10g – ERROR: Wrong password for user

When you get this error with oracle 10g you have to do this steps:

1. Control Panel –>Administrative Tools–>Local Security Policy–>Local Policies–>User Rights Assignment–> Log on as a batch Job
2. right click–>Properties
3. add user or groups–>give your OS username

Done

motorbike crash

20 April I have been visiting family. During my way back motor biker had take me in area where city limit is 50 km/h and comparing to my speed (which was already above the limit) I have to say he (motor biker) was driving about 130 to 150 km/h.

Few seconds after he took me about 200 meters affront of me crashed to the car going in opposite direction. Biker didn’t even tried to stop bike. Car was completely destroyed from the front. Biker end up few meters behind car and his bike was completely destroyed. My beloved half run to check how is doing biker I have called 112.

It looks like biker for a while just blackout. And I guess he didn’t even know that he had any accident. Anyway interested thing was that first think he started worry about were his biker’s gloves.

Biker was in shock and it looks like had internal injuries. It is hard for me to describe how terrible it was. It took few min before paramedics and firemans arrived and I hope he will survive.

It was interested to look on people how they behave in this situations. Some of them were confused and very chaotic. From about 30 people I can say there were 5 with clear thinking and helpful ideas. There was a man looks like business man who was very common to solve different situation and lead people. He took care of couple from that car. At home we have agreed that people who are involved in everyday decision making are much more suitable in this situations then other people which are used to get just orders.

Some pin points about me and my beloved half and our reactions:

• as I wrote it happened cca 200m a front of us, so before we arrived I have called emergency (I was surprised that some people started thinking to call emergency after several minutes, I guess this is the time which decides if injured will live or not)
• it was interested to watch my love in stressed situation. Big thanks to her and good that she has so great medical knowledge. I guess she did the best of what she could do before paramedics arrived.

Tips for these situations:

• be calm, think straight, do not panic
• try to do things as usually don’t let panic and stress from other people to influence you

Anyway this gives you good ideas what is life about. (some time in next post)

NSLU2 – little file server which is worth to have

I was using PC for my  fileserver needs. It had few disadvantages:

• noise – very noisy (few HD, fans, cpu,…)  could not sleep in next room
• power consuption – let’s face it, most of the time it will be just running without any work

Advantages:

• you can install any OS
• applications (samba, VPN, media server, …. )

I have found very nice little piece of hardware made by Linksys called NSLU2.

NSLU2

Little nice HW with 2 USB ports. You can install several firmwares (openwrt, debian, …). Very easy to store and other things.

Advantages:

• small
• small power consumption – with 1 HD about 16W/hour
• OS – either linksys firmware or linux based firmware (openwrt, debian,…)
• applications (few thousands applications compiled for given firmware)
• very silent – just HD sometimes does little noise
• connect any USB peripheral (HD, printer, …. )

Disadvantages:

• could not run windows
• just 2 usb ports, anyway you can have USB hub and connect more devices Actually it has 5 USB ports, but just 2 are open. The rest can be added by this manual.

I have set it up with OpenWRT firmware and have just 1 HD (for now).  I am running:

• samba – fileshare
• rtorrent – to download linux iso images like ubuntu and other things
• iTunesServer – to stream my music to local network
• VPN – using openVPN to connect to my local network from outside (actually running it on my WRT54GL router which runs also openwrt firmware)
• Asterisk – open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit
• and many others

Things which I want to do:

• 2/4 GB Flash disk which holds OS (debian)
• 1TB hard drive Western Digital Caviar GreenPower 3.5″ 1TB WD10EACS
• This how-to encrypt HD with truecrypt

švarcsystém ano či ne?

Nedavno jsem cetl zajimavy clanek o porovnani zda se jedna o svarcsystem nebo ne. Na toto tema se vyjadrilo ministerstvo

Nekolik veci, ktere me zaujali z jednoho clanku:

1. Musí však vždy jít o obchodnězávazkový vztah, jehož obsahem není zastřený výkon závislé práce, ale zhotovení určitého díla nebo jeho části při vnesení nejen práce, ale i další hodnoty, jako např. upotřebení vlastního pracovního vybavení, použití vlastního stroje apod.
2. pak nasleduji dalsi body
3. V praxi to tedy znamená, že pokud se bude živnostník chovat ve své činnosti jako zaměstnanec (např. práci bude vykonávat podle pokynů objednatele, v jeho prostorách, z jeho materiálů, v určené pracovní době apod.), bude se jednat o pracovněprávní vztah, tedy „švarcsytém“, což bude znamenat porušení zákona.

Mio A701 & Leopard

Finaly I had some time to play with my “old phone” and connect it with my Leopard and use it as modem to get to the internet.

Here are steps:

1. Search for bluetooth device. If you select Mobile Phone for some reason it will not find it. Choose Other Bluetoothe device and then it will find it.
2. Select that you want use it to connect to internet.
3. You can let it show you modem status in status bar
4. Select phone number. I live in Czech and my carrier is Vodafone so I will put *99# as phone number and same as user, password can be empty.

Whoala and you can surf the net without any problem. Just wait for phone bill

For windows:

1. install activesync
2. on Mio start Modem Link application
3. Click activate and connect USB cable to windows
4. It will show you new modem and would need driver, which is on Getting Started CD
5. On modem properties in your Windows:
   1. Select your phone number *99#
   1. In the guide there is also some extra setting “+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”internet”,”",0,0″ in Extra initialization commands
6. You are set

HOW-TO tortoise SVN

I like to use SVN and specially their client for Win XP TortoiseSVN. But still didn’t use all the functionality which it gives. Here is very nice tutorial done by BEA.

In Mac OS X I like the scplugin which looks similar as tortoiseSVN. And of course you can use Eclipse and their subversive or subclipse.

Because I didn’t know what is the difference between tagging and branching here some thoughts I have found:

• tag:
  • you can name it as you want aka release_1.0
  • it will take snapshot of all files and their revision number
    • CVS will increase revision number for file(s) we are committing to repository, so we have to somehow keep information of all revision numbers of all files.
    • SVN A tag is just a “snapshot” of a project in time. In Subversion, this idea already seems to be everywhere. Each repository revision is exactly that—a snapshot of the filesystem after each commit. Advantage of having tag command in SVN is that you can put name like release_1.1 instead of 673.
• branch
  • when your software goes to production, tag it.
  • then you continue programing. But during time, customer finds some bugs. So what to do ? Just checkout on to some other folder your code but with revision/tag name release_1.0. You will get your code which customer has and you can repair it, commit it back to your “release_1.0″ revision and delivered the build to customer
  • Next you will repair your code in your HEAD revision.
  • Branches allows you to work on code which was already delivered