Technik

Today i tried the first time to do GeoCaching with my Nokia N810 running the Maemo (which is a Debian-based Distribution). I already own a Garmin Geko 201 with which i found 100+ Caches, so this is my reference. The GPS-Receiver of the N810 is better than the one in the Geko (at least since i use the fixed gpsd, which normally shouldn’t do something on the performance, but in my case… it made me feel better), so fixes come faster, and more accurate than on the Geko. (from hearsay the SirfIII-Chip is even better) ...

after playing around a little bit with maemo inside scratchbox, i managed to break the packetsystem beyond repair… so i wanted to start again, but the maemo-sdk-install_4.0.sh told me: E: You must close your other scratchbox sessions first so… where to go from here? http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23maemo.2007-01-20.log.html knows it: sb-conf killall are the magic words. lets start again.

As i blogged before i’m going to be the happy (?) owner of a Nokia N810. On this device runs a Linux with a special distribution and there is also a Development SDK, which can be run on ia32-machines. This SDK relies on Scratchbox, so i just downloaded and tried to install it. This works smoothly, they provide a shellscript, which downloads all needed components and feeds them to dpkg. But, when i try to start Scratchbox i get ...

Yes, I just received the following mail: Congratulations! You have been accepted to the N810 maemo device program. We will send your discount and instructions as soon as the device is available in your selected shop (soon). maemo team - > http://maemo.org So christmas is saved.

it sometimes funny, i’m working with mutt since about 10 years, (the 5 years before i was using elm) and just found out how i can view pure text/html-Mails without fiddeling with piping and things. set implicit_autoview in .muttrc does the trick. but now mutt also prefers the text/html-part of multipart/alternative-mails, this is going to far for me. i want the text/plain-part if available. mutt has also a solution here: ...

I have no idea how the other major MTAs handle this, but sendmail seems to issue an ident-auth-request on each connect it gets. As i think this is rather useless, as most hosts don’t answer it, and, even if they would, the answer is easily fakeable, i switched it off. adding define(confTO_IDENT', 0’)dnl to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc disables this. Sadly this isn’t documented, for confTO_IDENT it only states The timeout waiting for a response to an IDENT query. ...

Every two weeks i get this: $ xterm & Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 and it looks that something eats up the possible number of Clients: $ xlsclients |wc -l 56 when i restart X i can open about 100 xterms until i reach the error message. ideas?

Do you know this? you write a brilliant entry for a blog, a blog-comment or something in a textarea-field in your browser. after finished, you press the Send-Button, and … the browser crashes, or nothing happens because Javacript or Cookies were disabled in your browser. the result is, the brilliant text you just wrote by investing time has gone to bit-heaven. Has anyone a solution for this, beside writing in a text-editor, pasting it over to the textarea, fighting against linebreaks and things? ...

Calamaris Build another beta of Calamaris and fixed parsing of Extended LogFileFormat for use with the Novell Internet Caching Service and its relatives. SPARCstation 5 So, that Solaris could hold its position for ca. 2 more hours and than i installed Debian GNU/Linux. While transporting that monster to my car the monitor fell off my waggon… now it’s broken :-( Pissed for that weekend. Now it’s getting slowly better… sigh

Telco I can’t believe it… they fixed it within 26 hours. As far as i can see, the cable was broken somewhere where they build a cycleway or something… SPARCstation 5 I got it… i’m going to call it kurn as my other computers are named worf, alexander, mogh and jadzia… it has 64MB RAM and a 1Gig harddisk and now there is Solaris 2.7 on it… let’s see how long it takes that i wipe that out ;-) ...