bifröst

I am interessted on what you can do with internet domains for several years now. So I am always reading about what might happen next, like introducing new domains (.berlin, .xxx, .whatever). Some days ago the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) had a big meeting in Paris, France. They tried to set up a roadmap and for the first time it seemed like they will be more liberal in allowing new domain names. My opinion is, that there should be some more TLDs, similar to .cat or .lat. But be careful with domains like .nyc (New York City) or .berlin. And be careful where you host your domain…

I have a Logitech diNovo for several years now and it really worked fine under windows. But I’ve switched to ubuntu on my desktop machine about one year ago. And I got the keyboard + mouse running via bluetooth after searching a lot about this topic (examples: here, here and here). But (re-)connecting did not work properly, I always had to use this command:
sudo hidd --search
And how do you type a command when your keyboard is not connected? Yes, you use another keyboard plugged via PS/2 and this sucks!

And now? When I ran this command for the first time with the new Ubuntu 8.04 everything worked fine

my hcid.conf
device 00:11:22:33:44:55 {
name "Logitech diNovo MediaPad";
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}
device 00:12:34:56:78:90 {
name "Logitech diNovo Keyboard";
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}
device AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF {
name "Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse";
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}

or: presentation is everything

Within the last week I worked a lot for FabrikIM, a software written in ruby. This project is part of my studies and we had to do it as a group of four people. It’s more or less a simulation with input of sellwishes, working lists for the staff etc. and and output of production or orderlist. Our tool is maybe the best in a technical view (I am sure it is ;)) and we finished the concomitantly business game as no 1. But sometimes technique is evil. The software worked fine and we had to present it today. But we did not check all technical issues, which means that the LiveCD (FabrikIM was developed under linux but will work on every platform) failed to open our presentation, because we just tested the documentation and the tool itself. So we switched to our normal developing machine (at least one of them :D) and there the connection to the beamer sucked: 640×432!? No way to change it fast and so the technique was our undoing. The presentation was “ok” but you could see anything in the live demo of the tool itself. Now we will get a “bad” mark cause we “ignored” something very important: presentation is everything.

But: we will release the good part of the software as open source soon, so stay tuned…!

Sometimes you need this Microsoft os called Windows, e.g. for updating your nokia mobile firmware. I’ve been happy to see, that the firmware for my E51 was updated some days ago. I tried to use the NSU (Nokia Software Updater) but the connection failed again and again. I even turned off my firewall in XP but nothing happend.
Searching for the given error message did not lead to a result (german message and english support board), but I’ve found the english error message, something with “NOL” - and there was the hint: NSU uses IE’s proxy settings to connect to the update server. This sucks and is not documented anywhere! I’ve changed my IE proxy settings for using IE at my uas only - and using firefox for “real” work.