Entries from June 2007 ↓

If you’re switching between providers and want to keep your addressbook and sms’s, here is a simple way of doing so with gnokii:

$ gnokii --getsms AR 1 10 -d >> sms_archive
$ gnokii --getphonebook SM 1 200 > phonebook

The “AR” stands for “ARchive” and tells gnokii to search the SMS’s there, and not in the INbox (“IN” being another cellphone storage area). Following AR, there is the SMS range you want to save (sms 1st till 10th). Make sure you have a look at gnokii manpage if this is not working for you. For instance, on the following command, the “SM” is referring to the SIM card… perhaps you’re not storing your phonebook there, but in the internal mobile phone memory (“ME”).

Here I’m assuming that you have configured your /etc/gnokiirc properly. Just for the record, I’m using a bluetooth usb adapter.

As a result of this mini-howto, you have a plaintext copy of your phonebook and sms messages on your computer, isn’t it easy and convenient ? Sure, there are clearly better and comprehensive alternatives out there, like SyncML (OpenSync), but this solution suits my needs very quickly and it’s quite effortless.

Doing a backup of the photos is even simpler if you happen to have kblueetothd, one of the coolest KDE kioslaves: just drag&drop the pictures to your PC and you’re done !

I just wanted to thank all the people involved in this project and all the readers, friends, comments and support received during my stay in Burkina Faso: Thanks to all !

As I promised to many of you, I just edited the posts adding the highly requested photos of this wonderful experience: you can click on any of them, and you’ll be transferred to the whole album. From there you can see all the 525 photos in a row: enjoy ! Please, be patient with my modest home server and bandwidth while checking the images :-S

Last but not least, I want to thank the people who wrote Gallery2 and the astounding associated WordPress plugin: WPG2, thank you coders !

EDIT: WPG2 updates were such as mess that I migrated my entire photo collection to Flickr, sorry for the mass update on your feeds, ppl !

Els últims dies transcorren tranquils, la feina ja està feta i només queda recapitular i acabar de viure l’experiència. Anem a donar una volta a peu per barris de Bobo on no havia passat encara…

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Avui en Xavi marxa cap a Ouagadougou per agafar el seu vol de tornada a Barcelona. Aprofitem per acabar d’entendre’ns amb Athanase sobre la meva tornada i ens acomiadem. D’aqui unes poques hores arribarà en Raimon i aprofito els moments de calma per escriure una bona estona.

Mentre avanço amb els posts endarrerits, alguna cosa pica amb força a la finestra de l’habitació. Primer no li dono importància: deu ser alguna branca dels arbres propers o algú que neteja la finestra… o potser m’estan cridant desde el carrer llençant pedres al vidre ? Quina grata sorpresa quan veig que el causant és aquest animal autòcton tant xulo:

Els cops els fa amb la cua quan es mou, fent un cop sec i fort al vidre. Sorprenentment es deixa fotografiar desde una curta distància sense immutar-se. Dies abans en Mesmin m’havia explicat que de petits els caçaven i se’ls cruspien fregits… fa gràcia pensar que de petit lo màxim que jo havia experimentat amb la versió catalana d’aquestes bèsties era veure com perdien la cua i la recuperaven: fam versus esperit científic

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