Beach
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Christian in Life
Remember ? Back in November I had this discussion with uncle Seemant about getting some time off, which resulted in driving to the beach for a whole day.
I finally found some time to get the pictures off the digital camera, and here they are (some of them) …
View at the beach
) and I enjoyed nature’s weirdness …
Seagull with only one foot
media-video/codeine
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Christian in Gentoo
OK, as Diego posted earlier last week, to switch to something else than xine-ui (#161913 is really annoying), I decided to use codeine. It looks nice so far, supports what I need, so everything is fine now.
Thanks to Diego for the heads-up.
Research project
Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Christian in Life
OK, as I wrote earlier today I went onto a research mission for today, looking at the alternatives for the 2x stuff. Looks like Citrix Presentation Server is just the software I’m looking for. Watched the demo’s on their website, which are quite impressing, but sadly don’t tell me everything I’d like to know.
Maybe I’ll ask some people in Greifswald and in the vicinity, how stuff works with Citrix. Maybe I should even get in contact with Citrix itself and ask for a test version, or some other sort of demonstration.
Qualcomm Eudora vs. Microsoft Outlook
Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Christian in Life
OK, so I’ve spent the last day working on my bosses $MAILPROGRAM. In detail, I’ve been trying to get his mails from Eudora (which really is complete *crap*) to Outlook (yeah, yeah I KNOW but he really needs a decent calendar with his E-Mail program, which neither KMail, nor Thunderbird nor Mozilla Suite - aka SeaMonkey can provide).
Problem with all that is Eudora’s crappy way of saving mails (and their attachments). Eudora is saving the mails in regular MBX format, but is putting the attachments into a separate folder. I’ve looked all over the web, and only found one application capable of importing his mails into Outlook including the attachments from the Attach folder.
Luckily I managed to import at least his old address book including the distribution lists with Outlook Express (yeah, this blog post mentions all the crappy Microsoft applications , as Outlook itself failed and crashed over and over again while importing them (due to a distribution list having ~300 addresses associated).
Finally I’m back at my research project, trying to find some alternatives for plain terminal server usage (such as 2x ApplicationServer and/or 2x LoadBalancer for RDP/ICA. I’ll see what the day turns out to be, hopefully not as wicked as yesterday.