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

Hint: On April 8th Debian etch was released.

In my sources.list the security updates are loaded from the stable repository and the other packages from the sarge repository. Three weeks ago these two were the same (because sarge was stable) and now etch is stable - problem!

The last two days I had the chance to test a BlackBerry 8800 (thanks to Andy). Overall I have to say that I was really surprised how good the scroll ball works. I made some pictures of the 8800 using BlackBerry Maps with its internal GPS hardware - this combination could replace my Windows Mobile Pocket PC with TomTom.

After starting GPS:

Showing the current location:

problogger has an interesting post about “What I’ve learned about blogging from Robert Scoble”. I found problogger last weekend and he has some really good information for bloggers - there are so many useful things on his site, it will take me some more time to get all the important information.

The post about Scoble is great! For me Scoble is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) blogger on the web and this article shows why. Thanks!

I developed a Midlet PokerClock. PokerClock allows you to keep track of blind levels when hosting a Poker Tournament. You can

• define small and big blind and
• set the time for each level

It counts down the time for each level and plays a sound when changing into a new level.

Give it a try: http://www.getjar.com/products/9347/PokerClock (download it directly from your mobile)

Sure you heard of Twitter but do you know Twittervision? I found it on Scobles blog … great thing for wastin’ your time 😉

Seems like Twitter is not able to deal with their server load the last two days, their site is very slow.

Damn. My cable provider Liwest encrypted all channels today. I was using my VDR now for over three years and now … it is black.

Without a smartcard I will not be able to receive digital TV channels anymore. Now I have to think about a solution - adding a common interface to my VDR and buying a smartcard? Completely change to another device?

All blogs are full of it: Boy Genius, RIMarkable, BlackBerryCool … today RIM officially announced the BlackBerry 8800. The official site is already online – check it out.Additionally BG posted some comparison pictures of BlackBerry 8700 and 8800 – with the statement “Trust me, if you have an 8700 you’ll want an 8800.” – we will see 😉

If you want to secure your web site you can configure your apache2 server to require a client certificate. You do this by adding the following to options to the ssl host configuration:

SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/CAcert.pem

SSLVerifyClient require
SSLVerifyDepth 10

To create a client certificate use the following commands

openssl genrsa -out client.key 1024
openssl req -new -key client.key -out client.csr

The create client.csr file has to be signd by your CA with the following command:

RIMarkable yesterday asked the question: “Besides email and making calls, what do you really use your BlackBerry for?”

In one the users comments I found a link to Berry Bloglines which is a small application for reading RSS feeds on a BlackBerry. I am using Google Readerto subscribe to RSS feeds for about three months now and I really love it. I gave Bloglines.com a try today but it did not convince me. Maybe it is just the cool Web 2.0 UI the Google guys created but I’ll stick with it.  There is also a good way to read your fees on your BlackBerry using the Google Reader for Mobiles site: http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/ – I personally do this with Opera Mini.

This one was really unexpected for me. But I am T-Mobile customer with a BlackBerry 8700g (which supports EDGE) and I am really happy about it. I never understood why T-Mobile did not provide EDGE while Mobilkom Austria started in 2005 with their EDGE upgrade.

In March 2007 it should be possible to use EDGE in 75% of Austria – can’t wait for it 😉