After the last rant on Windows Mobile networking, I’ll go over a few actual solutions to the issues I encountered: hopefully a few people may find this more helpful. Note that the following explanations, definitions of features and so on are the product of my own observation and experimentation with various WM5 and WM6 mobile [...]
I’ve just discovered an incredibly annoying bug downgrade “feature” in the new firefox (3) – the new add-search-plugins site is broken. I noticed it in later versions of firefox 2.x as well: I was kind of hoping it was something temporary but it looks like its here to stay. (Quick solution: ignore the site the “Add engines” link takes you to and go to mycroft.mozilla.org instead – its all there). [...]
I recently wrote this bash script for the purpose of a simple selective backup on one of our linux servers. It tars up a bunch of files and copies them to a windows / SMB server elsewhere on the network (where it is then backed up to tape as per everything else on that server). [...]
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