new Handies and Technologies

This week i bought a new Handy... it is a SonyEricsson K700i. After charging the phone about a day (i was at work) i finally was able to install the PC Software. Then i connected my phone with the PC through Bluetooth. After that i started downloading all Sounds and Videos for backup reasons... well i started it yes... but it did not end...

After a couple of hours i was able to backup everythink.. the problem: the phone froze and nothing worked.. that happend a couple times and it was really going to be anoying...
I could only finish the job by using my old infra-red connection .. what's that all about?? Hello.. bluetooth did not come to life yesterday... it is now some years old...

well i contacted today the support and will try to get this thing to work.

Next Problem: Software
I want to manage my address book through my pc as i did with my old nokia handy. But all i could find is a sync tool for Outlook... HELLO? Who the hell has Outlook installed on a private Computer? Is there nothing else? Someting Open Source?

ssh Problems after upgrade

My development server at home runs with debian. At First i installed debian woody with a chroot sarge environment. Then i bought a 200 GB Harddisk and was forced to upgrade my woody kernel to 2.6.10. I managed to get woody to work with the new Harddisk and everythink else, but in my sarge chroot environment my ssh will not work anymore.

It says: could not allocate tty or stdin: is not tty.

I checked the usual thinks, /dev/pty are more than enough, mtab and fstab are ok for an chroot environment. The sshd_config is also allright. The only version how i managed to get ssh to work was from linux typing: ssh root@localhost -p sh -i

Uninstalling and then reinstalling ssh again will not work. And i could not find anythink on the net. I will not give up, but i do not know what option i have to try?

Poem

Yesterday i have heard this poem and i love it, although i do not know who wrote it:

Dear White Fella,

Why do you call me colored?

I am Black
I was born Black
When I'm scared, I'm Black
When I'm sick, I'm Black
When I'm in the sun I'm Black
When I die, I will be Black

White Fella,
You are White
You were born Pink
When you're scared, you're Blue
When you're sick, you're Green
When you're in the sun, you're Red
When you die, you will be Gray
So, why do you call me colored?

The Incredibles

I also did not make it into the cinema for this movie, but i bought the dvd because it is a pixar movie and they never did a movie i did not like... one moment.. ok there is actually one movie i never saw... A bugs life.. because i have seen ants and did not want to measure them i thought i had to make a pause before watching that one...

But to get back to track i wanted to say something about the Incredibles. Well at first i thought ok, lets see it, but i don't think they can top nemo. But i have to say it started low, but it actually get real better and better. I love this analogy to James Bond.. really cool. The sounds, the Camera settings.. wow..

Some of my friends actually thing they have managed to top nemo.. i don't know.. i think you can't see it quite that way. I think of course both are good, but i can not decide which one is better.. they are so different in many ways.

Adobe bought Macromedia

When i did read this message i thought: "Oh my goodness...." now it is over. Then i looked to the comments and i agreed with all of them: "Why can't Adobe remain in the Photoshop, Premier, Acrobat,... business... i mean Go Live was a criminal act, now they got Dreamweaver and Flash to work on..

I hope we are exaggerating, but if not, then we are doomed.

hide and seek

Yesterday we went to the cinema for "hide and seek" with Robert DeNiro. We got free tickets and did not know what will await us there. But i was able to see the trailer before the movie, so we were a little prepared.

The beginning was tragic, as you can gess, and then the director let you belief something mystical is going on... it got a little bit from stephen king.

But the second Plot Point then was ingenious. I mean, i have not seen such a good Plot Point since Sixth Sense.
I mean, you sit there in the cinema and are making thousands of different versions who the bad guy is, and then finally it all come to one person in the end.

It is really a good movie, although i will not buy the dvd. It is not my genre.

ebay

I am a little late for the Hype for ebay, but i also am late for the bloggin hype ;-)
Today i finally got my first Peace, bought over ebay. I am suprised how good it worked. Everythink was as it should be, we mailed, agreed on the shipping costs and i payed the fees from the bank and everythink else.

All i got to learn now is to use the IBAN so the fees would not get that high (50% of the costs were the fees)... but next time i am a little wiser.

Ocean's Twelve

Yesterday the DVD of Ocean's Twelve was released (in Europe) and i finally got to see the movie. (I was unable to see it at the cinema).

To say it in one word, the movie is cool! If you liked the first one with the cool guys having everything under control even when it does not look so, you will like this one.

The only difference i could make out, is that this movie is a little more complicated. If the complicate part of the first one was how Mr. Ocean got his wife back (through being arrested and so on), in this Part it's a little more to that.
Next, I thing Mr. Garcia is a better Bad Guy than this Nightfox Guy, he has not the charisma of Mr. Bennedikt ;-)

And i am a little dissapointed that they did not make another thing with Mr. Bennedikt.. that would have been cool, but .. maybe in the third movie ?

Paramount Says Enterprise Cancellation Is Final

Now it's final, but we all know they would not do it. Paramount declared, they will not be accepting any amount of money from fans to continue to produce Star Trek Enterprise.

Some Part of me is sorry about that, because i was beginning to like the characters... and the other Part is glad, because the stories were not as good as they could be.. or should be..

now the question is: what will come next? I hope they make a pause to let the people get back on track.. i mean, i was completely sated with all Star Trek Shows...

for the article click here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/12/2115227&from=rss

IE position relative - absolut container bug

Another IE Bug, or better, one that is old but still problematic..
Today i built a side where i needed one element to be positioned absolute.. so i made a structure like this: (I have changed to round brackets)

(div class="headline")(/div)
(div class="container")
    (div class="logo")(/div)
    (div class="content")
        content
    (/div)
(/div)

Then i have to add the follwing css attributes:
.container {
position: relative;
}
.logo {
position: abolute;
}
.content {
margin: 0 50px;
}

Actually there where more, but i want to keep this short.
On Firefox everythink looks great, but when i looked in IE i got a different view.
IE positioned the logo not at the left border, the one of container, it positioned it at the left border of content... it added the whole 50px margin..

Workaround:
The problem is, that the .container has no content in it, only the div .content, so IE just ignored it. You have to add content to it. In my case, i just positioned headline into the container, since container has no other attributes than position relative, it did not make any difference and volia everythink works perfect.

oGame or the FBI?

oGame is one of these realtime Games with it's own Universe. To make things short: it is all about ressources.
Friends and I played it from September 2004 until 3 weeks ago. Then our accounts were disabled due "multi user". Which means we got the same IP Address from Time to Time and so we are one Person in real.. or that's what the Administrators of oGame decided.

The real Version is: we are different people which often meet at my place to hang out, play some multiplayer games, look dvd or do something crazy. I happen to have a router to use one Internet Access for multiple computers.

But the real Problem is, you are not allowed to know the password of another user and you definetly are not allowed to check the account of others while they are at work, or in the university or somewhere else.

I only do not understand why? What's the big Idea? (quotation from singin in the rain)
I mean it is only a game.. there is nothing depending on it... we have not used our accounts to push us... you may think it's like an Federal Bureo and if you use not the one IP where you created your account, policemen will swarm at your place and get you arrested...

ok, that's a little excessive.. but i really do not understand the Problem.
That's why i wrote an email to the administrators to ask if they can enable our accounts.. but at first they did not give us any chance and relayed us further to a toplevel administrator.. (what a bureaucracy) .. and he told us he will look over it... on Monday .. that was about three weeks ago..

Now we are patient people.. but three weeks??? Ney, whatever these administrator decides, the game is done for us.

First Post

Now it starts, now you won... i finally got blogged ;-)
But never or less, you will get my revenge. I will start bloggin more than you can read .. ok, that will never happen, but i had to try ;-)

To get serious i will start my first entry with a problem in svn:
ever got an error while checkout, like this one:

svn: Checksum mismatch on rep '2k9c':
expected: aa79aa544453b7bd3bdd49e6c1440184
actual: 29299c7a197e774584ca96ede8f2e154

That's a bad one, because you don't know how to compensate so you may work further...
I don't have a good solution for it, only a link to: http://www.jroller.com/page/dunpanic

and my approach: since i got all files in another directory and just wanted to get a clean checkout so i may add the new files and make a commit, i deleted every single file where the error occured, made a commit and started the checkout again..

as i said, it is not a clean or good solution, but i hope it will work.