February 2008 Archives
Thu Feb 28 00:15:24 JST 2008
Ukolovnik 1.0
New version of simple todo manager called Ukolovnik has been just released. There are no major changes in this release compared to 0.9, it mostly happened to indicate that this small piece of code has reached some level of stability and wanted level of features.
Mon Feb 25 19:29:33 JST 2008
Gammu test version 1.18.91
New Gammu testing version is out. This time release period is a bit longer than usual, mostly because my moving back to Prague. 1.18.91 again only fixes some bugs:
- Improve debug messages when connecting to phone (bug #508).
- Fixed handling of some charsets in AT engine (bug #525).
- Identify more Nokia phones (thanks to Iván Gabriel).
- Fixed regression with DKU2 cables on Windows (bug #533).
You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/.
PS: Debian users can get packages from experimental.
Tue Feb 19 01:14:36 JST 2008
Network manager not working?
For a long time I had problems on my work computers with Network manager still thinking that it is not connected. And I was really lazy to debug it. But as more and more application take online/offline settings from it, this became more and more annoying.
After some googling I found out that the problem might be in
/etc/network/interfaces file, which is parsed by
Network manager. Some "complex" things might confuse it. Well in my
case the complex thing was calling of some script in post-up.
Commenting this out magically fixes everything. Moving script to
/etc/network/if-up.d/ also is not a big problem, but why the hell
the Network manager thing does not tell where the problem is?
Fri Feb 8 14:00:15 JST 2008
How to name your job?
If you don't know much about things you do, work for a small company and want to look like a professional working for a big company, then the Japanese way to do this is to write following job name on your business card:
Embedded System Technical Division
Operating System Section
Chief Engineer
When I saw this for first time, I thought this business card is some kind of joke, but not, they're real.
Thu Feb 7 14:35:23 JST 2008
When non ASCII names will finally work?
By using my name in various web services I usually spot bad implementation of displaying name field in their website. I can see that over years the amount of servers which cripple my name to something like ÄŒihaÅ™ is getting lower, but there are still lots of them. When I find way how to report it, I usually do so and I always enjoy fields like "How to repeat". This time the guilty one is the MySQL bugtracker.
PS: Fortunately all Debian pages seem to catch up this year and my name is no longer crippled in NEW queue or Lintian pages :-).
Wed Feb 6 12:23:13 JST 2008
Gammu test version 1.18.90
New Gammu testing version is out. This is mostly bug fixing release, especially with lot of tweaks for Windows build and for AT driver. Full list of changes:
- Do not link with irprops.lib on Windows.
- Various MSVC compilation fixes.
- Improved AT model parsing and added tests.
- Fixed possible crash in reading SMS from AT phones (bug #515).
- Proper fall back to automatic model when user enters wrong one.
- Added identification of several phones.
- Fixed reading of messages from AT phones without ME memory.
- Improve charset detection on Motorola phones (bug #522).
You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/.
PS: Debian users can get packages from experimental.