Zwischen den Zeiten – nach wie vor!

Grade habe ich noch einen Artikel bei Spiegel.de gesehen. Interessant ist das Gebäck auf dem Foto. Na? Wo wurde das Foto mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit nach aufgenommen?

Heute haben wir leider nur zwei Türen die benutzbar sind!

Alle wissen es, das neue iPhone hat ein Linkshänderproblem. Aber auch das G1 hat sowas…

Will ich unter K9 Mail mehrer Mails markieren und löschen, so ist das fast eine unlösbare Aufgabe. Der Touchscreen erkennt das nicht richtig. Nehme ich das Telefon in die rechte Hand sind die Probleme weg…

Ist das jetzt ein reines G1 Problem, K9, Android?

IPTV is something you hear a lot about recently. Telco providers start bundling TV over IP with to push their multi megabit broadband lines.  And obviously IPTV has some very compelling properties… Basically you can watch TV wherever you have internet access.  Recently while preparing a lab assignment when I came accross some opensource project that allows you to become your own IP TV provider. At least within your own network! All you need on the “Provider-side” is a DVB receiver attached to your Linux box and a piece of software called mumudvb. At the “customer-side” VLC is all you need.

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Sicherlich ist es eine Gewöhnungssache, sicherlich gibt es einen guten Grund dafür,…. aber ich will die Kontrollelemente eines Fensters rechts und nicht links haben. Es steht schon tausendmal im Netz, aber damit ich es nicht suchen muss:

gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string ":minimize,maximize,close" 

Das stellt alles auf gewohntes aussehen um!

We are currently introducing S/MIME based encryption and signing for our mails. This works flawlessly an almost any desktop application. A question that came up was if there is support for our growing number of smartphones.

The question seems to be: Not for those platforms that we use. There is no support for IPhone, Android nor Symbian. There is no infortmation about Windows Mobile based devices… but who uses that anyway?

Blackberrys are the only mobile devices that have builtin S/MIME support. ( I had some hands-on time in the subway this morning)

I wonder why there is no support for secure e-mail communication on mobile devices?

Is there really no demand? What about all those business people running arround with their Nokias, Iphones or Androids?

PS. Could some IPhone user check if the phone is capable to display signed (NOT ENCRYPTED) mails??

First look. Nice device, feels good in your hands
AppStore: The Appstore is not available in your country
Display: Glares but OK to read
Useability: Very smooth to use
Gets a bit heavy to hold in your hands after a while.
Nice toy lets see what happens…

Calendar: WTH? You cannot change to next day by swiping a page? Apple??

I was giving a talk on a conference in Japan this morning. Since I could not fly due to the ash cloud I was giving it via Skype. The session chair told me that someone proposed to change the name from “Network Operations and Management Symposium” to “Network and Cloud Management Symposium”

It’s got a nice touch!

The combination of a Samsung X11 Laptop with a intel iwl3945 wifi chipset and Ubuntu 9.10 can be quite frustrating.
For some reasons it just won’t work. The Wireless LAN is detected and the user is queried for the password. After some time the process times out and the password is requested again, and again and again,…

The same combination works flawlessly on another Samsung X11. There seems to be some little difference between the different versions of Samsung X11 laptops….

That particular machine drives me nuts… Even an Update to the 2.6.33 Vanilla Kernel did not provide any improvements.

Google support reacted quite quickly. It seems to be a feature! Whenever a mail is sent to an address which is then redirected to the GMail Account it is suppressed to avoid mailfloods…

OK, it is true. I have some strange e-mail setup. I have different accounts at different providers, I have e-mail addresses at serveral domains where I run my own mailservers.

So what do I do for convenience reasons is: I forward most of my e-mail accounts to a Gmail account. And the for backup reasons I have the gmail account to forward a copy of each incoming mail to some other mailaccount on one of my servers.

This setup worked quite well. But for some time now someone changed something. There seems to be some sort of Bermuda Triangle within my personal Cloud!

Whenever I send an e-mail from my gmail account to an address on one of my domains address@maildomain , the following happens.

• Gmail accepts the e-mail
• E-Mail is delivered to my domains mailserver server.maildomain
• Mailserver forwards the mail to gmail
• E-mail is lost. It does not appear in my gmail inbox nor in my backup mailaccount.
• If I send an e-mail from some other account to my address@maildomain
• server.maildomain accepts e-mail and forwards it to gmail
• gmail displays the mail in my inbox
• gmail forwards it to otheraccount@maildomain
• server.maildomain accepts the message and stores it in my backupaccount…

Please Google: Fix your servers or tell my why what I am doing is wrong!