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Yet another links in phone database

While looking for modem driver for Alcatel One Touch 535 for Windows (thanks Alcatel for removing support for old phones!), I found the mobile phone directory website. There are nice reviews of phones and I quickly decided to add it to linked content in phone database. So enjoy more information about phones!

BTW: does anybody have that stupid inf file for OT535?

Mirrored own articles

I finally made local copy of my articles which I made for Linux software server. They were sitting for long time on my disk to be published somewhere under my website, but till now I didn't manage to do that.

You can find original article listing on Linux software and it's mirror is at my server: http://cihar.com/publications/linuxsoft/.

As a special bonus you get there file which is missing in articles on Linux software :-).

Second notification on RSS change

Some time ago, I switched python-gammu and Wammu RSS from Mantis generated to my weblog. However there are still many people using old locations which are redirected to new place. The redirection won't stay there forever, please subscribe to actual locations, you can find them on project pages or direcly on blog pages in all RSS and Atom variants.

Phone database cleanup

I just did large cleanup of data in Gammu phone database. So there should be no duplicates and all phones should be in correct category. Please take care on selected manufacturer when you add new phones as otherwise people lookig for phone from specific manufacturer are confused.

I also fixed case of some letters in names, however I'm definitely not sure whether new variants are 100% correct as I don't know all phones :-).

phpMyAdmin demo also with config auth

Upon several requests I added another demo which is configured to use config authentication, so you can again directly link subpages without need to enter login information.

While working with that I also removed 2.8.0 branch from demo and CVS snapshots as it is not maintained and updated anymore.

Source code search

Have you ever need to lookup something in source code? Most developers probably did so. I needed to lookup something in Gammu sources and I decided to setup search engine over it. I decided to use Gonzui as it looks good and was easy to setup. So if you want to find something in sources, just point your browser to gonzui.cihar.com.

Later I added also other my code (phpMyAdmin, Wammu, python-gammu, polld), so you probably want to use advanced search to limit results.

Server outage

I'm sorry for outage of this server. It was caused by short power down in serverhouse, which lead to server reboot. Unfortunately network interface didn't reset properly and thus computer was unreachable.

Everything looked fine, except it was not able to enable link intreface. PHY was somehow confused and it reported different state than usual (0x786d vs 0x7869). I will try investigate details later to avoid repeating this.

Fight with www.foo sites

There are many sites where www.foo.bar points to different web than foo.bar. Random example that comes to my mind is http://opensuse.com/ and http://www.opensuse.com/. This sucks. I'm probably not the only lazy men in the world and typing www everytime is pointless.

So I much appreciate www. is deprecated website, which tries to persuade people about pointless keeping of www in many cases. So if you can, please classify your site as Class B, which is the best solution right now.