Archive for April, 2007

Some providers of BlackBerry services today upgraded their BlackBerry Internet Sevice to 2.3. Boy Genius provides this information. The new version allows better support for yahoo and gmail accounts open mp3 and wav email attachments wireless meeting requests wireless address book attachments (vCard) I hope my provider T-Mobile Austria upgrades their BIS soon.

Debian update troubles

In: Linux

26 Apr 2007

Today I had some problems with updating my Debian system because some of the updates had unresolved dependencies. I found out that my provider made a small mistake inside /etc/apt/sources.list – can you find it? #deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free #Local server: deb ftp://83.137.232.178/mirror/ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free [...]

As I already stated out some time ago I love Launchy! Now there is a new version 1.25 available and this is my download of the day. Thanks to LH for the information!

As this Eclipse bug entry reports Ant 1.7 is now included in the Eclipse build and will be released with the next rollout. This will finally bring Junit 4 support.

Scoble makes a mystery out of what a big company will announce today. “Developers, developers, developers” lets me think first of Microsoft. Which other “multi billion dollar company” could it be? UPDATE: It is out now – Adobe opensources flex

This weekend I had to experience that running a Tomcat in a JVM with debug settings configuring is not suited for productive environments. After the first instance suddenly stopped working I did not suspect that the debug setting were to blame but after the second one died the same mysterious way my suspicion hardened. The [...]

From time to time the mail file of a user gets corrupt on my mail server. In the mail log there is a line saying Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/username: LF not found where expected The problem is that there is a blank line at the beginning of the mentioned mail file. After removing this [...]

Skipper

In: Uncategorized

23 Apr 2007

You may now officially call me Skipper Yesterday I made the “Küstenpatent” in Rijeka (Croatia).

If rumors are true BlackBerry 8830 from Verizon will support iTunes. In combination with the 2GB micro SD card and the 3,5 mm headphones connector this would be the perfect device for me (and not only for me I am sure). Engadget and RIMarkable brought out the news.

Downloads of today

In: Downloads

19 Apr 2007

Starting a new category of posts: what I downloaded today Thunderbird 2.0 – the newest final release of my favorite email client Ubuntu 7.04 – IMHO the best Linux distribution around and my second system on dual boot


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