Did i mention that i’m still on vacation? More random rants and stuff next year 
Have a great 2009!
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…yeah, this thing happened only once, but its a great example:
I heavily use email on my mobile phone. Actually, i’m using ssl for sending emails. Suddenly out of nothing it stopped working. Receiving via imaps wasn’t a problem, but outgoing mail stuck with “unrecognized command”. Yeah, great. Checked configs in my phone, on my server, nothing changed.
Today i read this:
Der Mobilfunkanbieter O2 filterte in seinem UMTS- und GPRS-Netz zeitweise Befehle zur Aktivierung von verschlüsseltem E-Mail-Versand. O2-Pressesprecher Albert Fetsch erklärte, Ursache sei ein Software-Update und ein Hardwaretausch einer Firewall an einem Standort im Core-Netz Anfang September gewesen. Das Problem sei nur punktuell aufgetreten und nun behoben.
Source heise.de
It basically says that German provider O2 filtered some commands for encrypted email, namely STARTTLS.
I recently got the impression that i always stumble upon such things, invest a whole lot of time, get angry, stressed and what not. I hate feeling miserable for other dickheads mistakes.
Apart from that, interesting lapse to make in a softwareupdate.
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Yesterday i meet Jan in Hanover at the Cebit:
Talking with him was great, Cebit… I’m not so excited. Less comercial overkill and more interessting nerdig topics would be better. Also, i woke up with cold this morning, should have listened to this post.
Anyway, was a nice trip in the end and not that expensive.
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Tante did it again and wrote a wity rant agains “CrApple”, read it here.
This post among a lots of other things that i recently experienced with OS X 10.5.x on my MacBook and my PPC iMac lead me to one conclusion: Just try it linux for the desktop once again. The last time i did it was around 2002, 2003… Not a too pleasant experience. In the meantime, thinks have changed, i guess and i myself do have some good knowledge with Debian Linux on multiple servers so why not try to bring this back to my office.
So, welcome my new desktop, which will hopefully be delivered by next week:
This Dell Vostro 200 comes with Vista Business… I won’t touch this but install a 2nd hardrive and opt for Debian/Lenny. I’m not under any time pressure, so i’ll try to fit the environment to my needs in every detail as possible. I you’re interested, i’ll keep posting about it.
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