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Hey Paypal is cool service. Sourceforge relies on it for their donation system as well as other service providers with payments. It (probably) works well if you live in US or other country which Paypal likes. If you live in one which they don't like, like Czechia, you have only chance to get limited account from them. Why the hell do they limit this. I can understand when I'd have to pay more for money withdraval as internation bank transfers are expensive, but why I can not receive money?

Trying to talk with their support and trying to get answer why it is not possible to receive money in country which is member of EU doesn't tell more than their website:

PayPal is constantly working to expand and improve services for our customers. We hope that we can enable you to use more of our award-winning services in the future.

It's great you're trying to improve services so hardly, that you were not able to allow me to receive money during two yers. Really good job.

Just after previous change to link to FoneWiki.org, I was notified that Wikipedia has information about phones as well. As the links seem to be more or less same, next obvious step was to link Wikipedia also. So have a fun with more information about phones.

FoneWiki.org is great wiki for sharing user experiences with phones. You can find there information about phones which are usually not provided by manufacturers as various usage hints.

As I think this might be interesting for more Gammu users, I decided to add links in Gammu phone database, which will point to FoneWiki.org pages. Linking is done by phone name, so it does not have to be always working, but works at least for some phones :-).

Mark yourself on phpMyAdmin map on Frappr to see how phpMyAdmin users are spread worldwide.

I just activated some rewriting for Gammu phone database, so that URIs are now more user and search engine friendly. This also fixed navigation in top of page. If you find any problems with this change, please contact me.

It looks like searching was not working since transfer to new server. There was problem in SQL used as one field now became keyword. I fixed this, so you can again search phone instead of browsing whole database.

It's getting a bit sad, but it looks like all of us hardly find motivation and/or time to work on phpMyAdmin. There are tons of feature requests which are not being solved and nobody seems to be really interested in them. It looks like project needs fresh blood. Where to find it? Nobody contributed more patches so that he could be invited into project.

I believe there must be plenty of skilled developers using phpMyAdmin all over the world, but why they do not contribute?

As I already wrote, I'm currently thinking of major rewrite of Wammu code. This is partly inspired by problems I have with wxPython, partly by with to change data handling a lot, what is needed for support for multiple phones and intelligent caching of it.

Today I started to add design notes to bug tracking system. Well it was mostly core dump of my brain inspired by questions one user had about future. All design notes are now publicly available and all of them are childs of bug #147.

These ideas are not yet definite and no code has been yet written (except of some proof of concept stuff), so you have great chance to influence Wammu future by reading and commenting them. I will also add there more stuff as most of my ideas is currenly on paper and I didn't transform everything into electronic format.

I just noticed that Gammu compressed tarball for first time reached 1 MiB. Well most of recent additions were caused by inclusion of gnapplet (I tried to find some page dedicated to this, but it seems to be tightly integrated with Gnokii), but it still indicates that code is alive :-).

I just noticed that GoogleBot already downloaded 1 GiB from archzoom. As there is nothing new on this server, it might be quite conservative about downloading. Maybe they decided there must be something really important :-)

I often heard complains about MSNBot, but this time it got just 160 MiB, so it looks like we have another evil bot.

It looks that the code basically works. At least I already got information from several users, who managed to run it. However there are still some things broken:

• Phone searching doesn't work. There is some Unix only code and I'm going to fix it during weekend.
• setup.py is somewhat wrong. Maybe I missed something while writing it, but you don't need to invoke this script to run Wammu - just execute wammu script in top level directory and it should work.