Last week, my trusty Sony Ericsson T610 became a bit awkward to use. The "down" function of the joystick finally gave up on me, after intermitting failures the past month. The only way to select the next menu item was to go "up" through all menu items. It became a pain to use, so I needed a new one. …

In a previous post on this blog, I indicated that the 10.5.1. update of Apple's OSX did not fix my network and SMB problems with my Iomega drive. In the comments underneath, some readers kindly pointed out that Iomega's K104w11 Firmware update is available for the Iomega drive I have. Now that 10.5.2 is out, I …

This morning I thought I had way too much tasks, way too much paper on my desk, a messy inbox, and a cluttered schedule. Then I made a terrible mistake: try to solve this with more tools. You don't always solve "more X" with "more Y". I remembererd a discussion about ["remember the …

At work we were testdriving SourceForge Enterprise Edition. It is a great system to keep all your project information, source code, documents, bug reports and changes together, and linked. As you may have noticed, the pricing model of the Enterprise Edition is a well kept secret on the site. Our management bargained …

Lately I've been recieving mails with the letter "J" in seemingly random places. At first I thought I had gotten old, the world around me changed and people were starting to replace the smileys with single letter J's. I thought it meant "Joke" and carried on. Recently I noticed other people being …

Recently we had a problem connecting to our GForge CVS through SSH. We added the public RSA key to the GForge user, but because of wrong configuration on the client we tried to connect a couple of times with the wrong key. After a while the GForge CVS will return the following error: Received disconnect from : 2: Too …

Today I spent some time figuring out what the exact format of the CVS comment is when I want to link a commit to a GForge tracker item. I'll try to explain it a bit simpler: * We have [GForge](http://gforge.org/) installed at work. We use GForge to manage a software project for a customer. * The customer reports a bug …

Hi, I just wanted to share with you that I actually recovered a mail item which I had written in Thunderbird for Windows with Time Machine. Yes, Apple's Time Machine. At work, we use Windows XP machines. Because I hate to wait 4 weeks for my mail program to load, I use …

Our company was using Rational Clearcase for version control about 6 years ago. The developers decided it was way to clunky, error prone and WAY too expensive. We introduced CVS and it has been working fine for a few years now. CVS is widely known, stable and simple. I looked into using SVN a few years ago but the …

A little heads-up for Apple OSX users who have lots of images to resize. There's a free tool available to do this at http://www.eagle-of-liberty.com/resizeemall/. It's donationware, if you like it you can send the author money by paypal. I've used it, and it works as advertised. Drag a bunch of images on the …