Bad games on the n900

The N900 is a great mobile phone.
But today I broke the mediaplayer. Well, it wasn't me, uninstalling of the game "inner-spin" broke it actually. It removed some required libs... So I got a meaningless message that the video wasn't supported.

A good thing that the Faster Application Manager can show the dependencies of each packet.
After installing libsdl-ttf2.0 and libsmpeg0 I was able to watch my beloved videos again.

So watch closely which dependencies will be removed by uninstall a package from the n900!

Mount locale

Yesterday I had a problem with umlauts in a filename on NTFS. Not a big problem if you mounted the filesystem correctly:

ntfs-3g -o uid=1000,gid=1000,locale=de_DE /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

Sender Verification Extension

After updating thunderbird the sender verification extension (with SPF) is flaged as incompatible again.
So I needed to edit install.rdf once again with this line:
<em:maxVersion>*.*.*.*</em:maxVersion>

Now it should be compatible with all versions. Download

TRESOR

I stumbled upon a tool called TRESOR. Its using the AES-NI of your CPU to make cold-boot-attacks unsuccessfull.
Great idea and I would like to test it, but my Intel i3-370M doesn't have AES-NI.

Still waiting...

At the first october 2008 I orderd an OpenPandora.  After 3 years, nothing. I'm still waiting. Maybe I should cancel it at the end of the year...

Installing old Suse

If you want to play with an old version of Suse, like 8.0, you can mostly find mirrors without ISOs. The last days I was downloading the whole folder (5,4GB) with a very slow connection :(.

It's very simple: Boot boot.iso, select manual Installation, select Kernel Modules (Network Card) and install over network (FTP, HTTP, NFS).

Congratulation, you're running an very outdated system.