Archive for August, 2006
GnuPG is a free and open implementation of the OpenPGP standard, and I'm using that in a project, to automatically send encrypted messages to one of our suppliers.
It is rather easy to implement actually: after downloading the Crypt::OpenPGP Perl module (and dozens of dependencies), the rest is quite simple.
After generating a suitable keypair, Crypt::OpenPGP can [...]
I was just listening to podcast with Fabrizio Copobianco who speaks on a high-level about the Funambol platform which is available for almost any mobile phone/PDA and BlackBerry devices.
Here is another podcast with him.
This Open Source software certainly sounds very interesting, both for small offices as well as for enterprises.
We've had five cases of the BlackBerry (MDS) Browser disappearing from BlackBerry devices; it happened on a 7290, an 8707 and an 8700. Not only is the icon removed from the home page, but the whole functionality is gone: a click on a URL in an email for example, has no effect whatsoever.
Resending service books [...]
You may have noticed that I'm changing I've changed the look & feel of this site. Please hang in there with me while I fix the glitches.
Many years ago my mother put that question to a Spanish butcher, hoping to get some fresh eggs for a tortilla or something. I understand she got a bland facial expression from the chappie behind the counter.
It happened to me just now, when I drove to a petrol station in search of ingredients for a [...]
Having spent a good part of the day working with "webby" things such as markup, tags and categories, I was surprised and a bit confused to see an "Audi Service Tag" banner plastered along the side of a silver metallic Audi convertible this evening.
Until I realized that the "tag" was of course not English but [...]
Apropos Spam: in the course of the last four months, I have had the pleasure of having exactly 12,248 messages being deposited in my corporate spambox. If I apply a bit of arithmetic, that makes 3,062 per month or just over 102 per day.
Long live both DSPAM and SpamAssassin.
The BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) is a very valuable resource even if you are not (as I'm not at all) interested in Java development.
Why is it great? It allows a systems integrator to experiment with its functions including tests with a local (i.e. not live) Mobile Data Service (MDS) and email. It is like [...]