Oke, the first annoyance about the Nokia E61 is a fact. Well, actually it's about the Nokia PC Suite with which you can connect the phone to your (Windows) PC.
Somehow my Nokia E61i wouldn't connect using bluetooth with the Nokia Software. It could connect to the PC itself, but the Nokia software didn't want to 'see' the phone.
So I tried to remove the pairing between de two devices (which seemed to work). After that I tried to pair the two devices again... That's were the trouble started.
The software did see the phone via bluetooth, but it gave an error when I wanted to connect. The error said 'Cannot Authorize Phone'. Connecting via the USB cable worked fine.
I tried rebooting the PC and the phone several times, but the error persisted. Finally I removed the software from the PC and reinstalled it. Same error occured :mad: .
This was the point when I seriously thought about going back to a Windows Mobile device. There was one more thing I might try, and that was going through the registry of the PC and remove EVERY reference to Nokia. I first uninstalled the software and afterwards I removed everything Nokia-related in the registry.
After a reboot I reinstalled the Nokia PC Suite software, and everything worked fine.
This proves that Nokia software is as buggy as Microsoft software.
How hard is it for a piece of software/developer to remove all references to the software when you remove it? (rhetorical question)
I've been using iTunes for a couple of years now. It took getting used to in the beginning. Recently, iTunes offers the ability to get the album art from the iTunes music store (you do need an account there).
In the old days, I got the covers from Amazon.com, but hey, when it's automated, who am I to complain.... till now
The downloaded ablum art from the iTunes store doesn't show up on the iPod... Why? Now I still have to get the album covers from Amazon (or another source), if I want the pictures to show up on my iPod.
The probabe cause might be that the album art I manual download and attach to songs is actually added to the mp3, while the iTunes automated-album-art-getter is only a reference to a image on the hard drive.
Well, at least I've got something to do tomorrow when it's raining.
Today, the end is near. Mail servers are failing al over the world. The dutch ISP's Planet, and Chello are having sever problems with their mail server.
Chello
having problems is nothing new :-) . They always seem to have a problem of some sort. It's beyond coincidence that even
Planet AND Gmail are having difficulties at the same time.
XS4ALL is still working as expected (otherwise you wouldn't be reading this) :-)
The last couple of days were all about the leaked key for decrypting HD-DVD movies. This made me curious about the technology, so I headed to the
AACS LA website.
There's variety of
white papers available, which explain the AACS concept. The same papers were used by
musilix64 in making his first breakthrough on circumventing the AACS protection.
But there is more to be found on their website... There's even a section which explains the
Consumer Benefits of AACS.
- Support a superior viewing experience delivered by next generation media formats
AACS is added to the content. The content itself will probably 'work' better without AACS.
- Enable greater flexibility to manage distribute, and play entertainment content on a wider range of devices
This is a 'feature' for the publishing companies. Without the restrictive AACS protection, the content can be played on virtually every device. With AACS protection 'they' control on which device you can play the content.
- Enable groundbreaking home entertainment choices and the ability to use content on PCs and a range of CE devices
AACS is added to the content. The content itself will probably 'work' better without AACS.
- Work across a variety of formats and platforms
Five letters: L I N U X. AACS protected movies CANNOT be played on Linux. Only movies without the protection can be player on certain Linux players.
I'm one of those lucky bastards who lives like a gazillion miles from a phone central. This means that the ADSL speed reduces dramatically on high speeds. My older ADSL subscription was an Ultra Fast subscription (20Mbps/1Mbps). Due to the distance I only got about 6Mbps (if the wind was blowing from the right direction).
The cheaper version (Basic, 8Mbps/1Mbps) is slower, but I get relatively more speed (around 5Mbps). So for me, the additional <1Mbps more costed about 20 euro's a month.....
Damn, it's about time that they start using different technologies to bring the Internet into peoples homes. How the hell will they be able to bring phone, Internet, and TV over the Internet? Currently, it would mean that downloads 'stop' if you pick up the phone, or that artifacts appear on the TV signal when browsing the Internet.
I installed
Ultimate Tag Warrior recently, because I liked the tag clouds I saw on other blogs. Unfortunately, the plugin seems to cripple the search capabilities on the website. If the plugin is activated, you can't find any posts with a search query. Disabling the plugin make things work again.
So, I want to humbly apologize to all those people trying to find important stuff on this blog :-)
Apple
announced that the OSX 10.5 (aka Leopard) will be delayed till October 2007....
... We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October.....
Aaaaargh. I was hoping to get it in June.
Well, this gives me more time for saving a little extra money, and buy a new piece of Apple hardware (Mac Mini or perhaps even a Mac Pro) which will have Leopard pre-installed. Or maybe just the iPhone when it arrives in Europe at the end of the year and a separate copy of Leopard.
I've been a big fan of the
TWiT podcasts. Especially the Apple, Windows and security related podcasts. But lately, the content of those podcasts seem to shift to too much off-topic talk.
Take the latest edition of
Security Now! (Cross-Site-Scripting - Part II). The podcasts is about an hour in length, but the first half hour is nothing but talk about the Sony e-book reader, and favorite writers. What's that got to do with security?? I don't know.
Same goes for
MacBreak Weekly. It's more about having a good time for the authors, than about bringing some news. I don't mind that the authors are having fun creating the content. Hell, I appreciate a good laugh as much as the next guy, but keep it on topic.
Too bad that only about 50% of the content has something to do with the actual title (Mac / Security).
If they keep this up, they will loose a listener (not that they might care).
The last couple of weeks my blog was under some sort of spam attack. I got about 50 to 80 spam comments a day. Thankfully,
Askimet intercepted 99% of those messages. But Askimet shouldn't be getting these messages, because my captcha plugin should keep them out... well, it didn't.
Yesterday, I found
Wordpress Hashcash. A plugin which uses crypto to keep automated spammers away. So far it's working.
UPDATE: ever since I installed WP-Hashcash it has been awfully quiet on the spamming front :-)
Never mind... Thankfully Askimet is catching them all (50 per day at this moment)
I've got this blog running for a couple of months now. Even though not many comments are left behind (I don't care), the spammers definitely found my blog. I receive over 30 spam comments a day now. Thanks to the
Askimet Anti-spam plugin for Wordpress, the spam entries are quarantined.
Every spam entry looks the same, and all the links the f*ckers try to leave behind won't work (I must admin that I try some of the links they are leaving behind). So I ask you; What's the point in spamming useless links? If a link won't work, you won't even try a (spammed) link in the future, because it's a waist of time. Same goes for e-mail spam. I receive lots of spam in my inbox, but what is the use in advertising viagra, if the shop is offline.I guess that there are just too many people with too much spare time on there hands. But not enough to create, or host a decent online drugstore :-)
