The good news and the bad news.

I got my free Nexus One from Google delivered today!!!
Thank you Google!
It'd be more great if it worked, but it reboots each time I'm trying to turn on the Wi-Fi. :(

Titans fight review

Recently I switched the provider from Comcast to Verizon. Here are some Pros and Cons:

1. +/- Verizon promotion seems cheaper, but in reality, it's actually not. With all those fees and charges and losts, there is not much you can save.
2. + Only for 5 bucks more you have a service which let you watch a recorded on any device in your home.
3. +/- Verizon gives you a new router, it probably more powerful than your old one, but you need do all the settings again. And many things just impossible to do, such as to bind a MAC to an IP.
4. + The router box is a 64 bit Linux machine. :)
5. - The Fiberoptic network terminal takes some extra Ampers from your's home electricity.
6. + The phone local network is connected to the terminal, no need a separate wire from the cable modem to a phone socket.
7. - TV boxes rely on the Internet access. I f you turn off the router, the TV probably won't work.
8. + TV menu is more convenient (but still not perfect)
9. + CC can be turned on just from the remote. Don't need to turn off the box to enable or disable it.
10. + The remote looks and feels better.
11. --- You can not just switch tuners, you need to put one program to record and then switch to another one.
12. + You can browse and record programs from any internet-connected computer or a cell phone.
13. - Some good base package channels just do not exist in the Verizon even extreme package.
14. - You can't (not recommended) to choose a local IP network address as you wish. It should be 192.168.1.0
15. - The remote control does not let you turn on or of the box and the TV set separately.
16. - Verizon claims the speed should be 25Mb/s, but actually, it just 5Mb/s, slower, then Comcast, which gave 7Mb/s.
17. http://www.verizon.net site is made bad.
    

Get rid of Symantec

To uninstall a Symantec product (if it can't be uninstall by regular Add/Remove Programs procedure), try download Symantec uninstaller.

Office Cure

If M$ Office's Word does not start or starts too slowly, check how fast it starts with the "/a" option, like:
winword /a
In this mode all the add-ins and the templates do not apply.
If that's true (fast start with the /a), then:
Try to rename ~\Application Data\Microsoft\Template\Normal.dot (and probably the similar in that folder).
Go to Word's options dialog->add-ins, and try to disable all suspicious active add-inns.

Good bye windows!

I've decided to install Android in NAND. Anyway, if I need GPS I have a dedicated Garmin.
And probably, it's not a problem to flash windows back if I need it.
To do the move without (lost the current system) did the following:
1. Store both system and data in androidinstall.tar and placed it to /sdcard/andboot
2. Download a correct nbh (for AT&T Tilt (KAIS100) suits kaisimg-panel2-428-tilt-12-03-10.nbh). I used panel=0 in the default.txt, but there is no panel0 file. (Panel1 is not correct, it gaves me bad image). Renamed file to /sdcard/kaisimg.nbh
3. A hard reset: erased windows data first (Settings/System), then by holding the both soft buttons and pin the reset hole, then agreed with the question to do it.
4. Flash the nbh: holding the camera button, pin the reset
5. Remove the battery and reboot to the flashed Linux kernel and the init script.
6. Press the Dpad center key to enter the installer. Select "Install"
7. The /sdcard/andboot/androidinstall.tar is unpacked to /, populating mounted /system and /data
That's it.
Problems:
1. NAND gives me only 128Mb of free space compare to 256Mb partition I had on my SD card.
2. Some programs refused to work on the new place and I had to reinstall them. I assume that because some data was lost because of few free space during the unpacking.
3. I need to remove the battery each time I reboot, or it does not boot and there are lots of messages like "IRQ but nothing to do".
4. I still don't know did I do right, placing the data partiton in NAND. It supposed to be faster, isn't it? But actually I don't see any differences.
5. I still can't mount the device on my PC as an external drive nor mount SD card back if I removed it.

Need to find out how to make it use the data partition back on the SD card.

Android life cycle

There is a difference between v1.5 and v2.0
When an application goes to the background and returns back onSaveInstanceState()/onRestoreInstanceState() are not called on v1.5

But on a screen rotation they are both called.
onPause()/onStart() are called in all the cases, always.

I got the confirmation!

I've just got an email from Google, they have verified my application an promised to ship a free Android phone in 2-4 weeks.
COOOOL!!!!!!!!