Somethin’ fishy

During the last days I was looking for a prepaid card for some mobile internet device for having a small backup. I was really wondering to see that you don’t even have to register the card somewhere as it’s completely anonymous. On the other hand there’s that transparent user idea and storing logfiles for a long time for […]

Wiping a nokia phone

I guess you are now scared by the title, but no, we’re not going to physically destruct mobile devices here. But sometimes it is important to wipe all the data on the phone – i.e. for selling it. As the nokia guys aren’t dumb, they have implemented secret shortcuts to access some functions of the mobile phone without […]

eMail for Info-Junkies

There are many situations in which you might find it important to be up to date with your mailings – especially as soon as they hit your mailbox. This function is available with some mobile phones and commonly sold as ‘Blackberry functionality’ or push mail. In other words it is a more or less permanent connection between the […]

Enough joking

As the title says, I’m getting serious about my server boxes – no more software raid, no more running all that websites using the same user, no more kidding. As the new mailserver is already productive, the second IBM x345. As already told in the post dealing with the new server, it was no big deal doing the […]

Manuals in PDF format

Manuals are one of the vital things of the IT field, the source of information about how to handle certain programs and problems. Surely they are not always top, but always better than nothing if you are able to read them. Sadly it got to be a common habit doing them in PDF format by now, which requires […]

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