Cities of the Future

yesterday was the 10 years anniversary of opera.

you have the chance to get a free opera license, 34$ worth, by filling this form. you will get licenses for all plattforms e.g. windows, linux and mac but not symbian :-( .

Jesper Nøhr, working at opera stuff, has also released a nice dj music set. its not my style of music, it sounds a little bit trancy and housy .. uhh ..

i prefer the hardtechno mix sets from dylan drazen. you can download a 4 hour set from ump3.de. have phun :-)

nexen.net provides a very detailed statistic of php usage worldwide.

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analyzing foreign code is a painful job, especialy script languages like ruby, perl or php. alan is pointing out some interesting things, what should be avoided in coding.

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yesterday google talk was launched. google talk is a IM service with some specials. you can "talk" to other users like VoIP-Client, but only within the google talk service.

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a guy from neowin.net tries to connect to talk.google.com with trillian. looks interesting ..

there is a new subdomain at google available called talk.google.com, which will redirect you to www.google.com/talk/. subdomains at google are only available, if there is a service behind

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ny times wrote yesterday an article about two new products, which google will release today.

the first new product will be google desktop 2. i am not interested in such a product. i know from experience, that permanent indexing your files will slow down your machine.

rumors were afloat, that they will start a new instant messaging service. this sounds verry interesting for me.

here is a list of what i expect from a new IM system:

• "always on", that means that i appear always online, also when i am disconnected
• use plain text for communication
• integrated google search
• integrated google mail

in some situations you are not able to establish a firewall to secure your box. you can simply increase security of your box, if you follow these steps:

step 1: deny root logins, PermitRootLogin No

step 2: change the port, where the sshd is listening, to something higher than 1024, Port xx

step 3: only allow ssh2 connections, Protocol 2

dont forget to add a normal user, which is able to login. then you can use the command "su -l root" to login as root

this instruction should be the beginning of hardening your box. the next advanced steps should be installing a knock daemon and using key-auth only.

Lets go back to 2003. We want to establish a new wireless network to get mobile access from our notebooks around the new office, without the need of cables.

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Sync4j is an OSS project which contains a set of applications to develop, deploy and manage mobile projects.

you can get SyncML Clients for various plattforms, e.g. Outlook, Windows Mobile PocketPC, BlackBerry, Palm and iPod to syncronize your address book and calendar

it is an impressive OSS project, which is certified by the Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization and Device Management protocols

but make sure you use sync4j version 2.3 or higher, to get the Clients.

it is easy to deploy and you can use it with other syncml compatible server implementations. i will develop an example server implementation using php5, rather than using the fat syn4j java based server.

today i will bring an action against a local relocation company. they had to relocate my office and during this process, they destroyed my archive from 1996 to 2004, hardware ~3,500$ and software ~3,000$.

my lawyer will fix this issue, soon.

After searching a new Bloghost I found my home here at BlogHi.

I was tired of managing different weblog applications. I also want to get rid of some XSS/SPAM issues.

For now everything is working for me. I hope that I can add soon some interesting articles, posts and tutorials for you.

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