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Now im really getting ticked off. AOL MSN YAHOO are all playing up. Mails sent are getting dumped into the junk / spam folders. They call it anti-spam, I call it playing spoilt sport. There are better non-intrusive methods which we use to block spam . They are simply scared of the competition. Google for news on this....

after a strong 6+ hrs of coding,planning and finishing of a lot of backlogged work.., I Felt like doing something else, just to take my mind off code.

Was playing with GNOME and decided to see what can I do to make it feel more user friendly. Did not like some of the defaults. so here they are, the changes (gnome 2.8, debian sarge sable)

Debian sarge (amd64) does not come with the software needed to enable WPA authtentication on wireless lans.

before you are tempted to give up and go with WEP security, read about the security flaws here.

Security of the WEP algorithm:
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

For some strange reason 'obexftp' does not seem to be able to send data to the phone.

Perhaps im just to lazy to figure it out, but i find obex_test a simpler way. (i.e. if you do like command line)

cant use the gnome-bluetooth vfs layer b/c im on deb stable and i aint upgrading till the next stable release comes in.

here the commands in good old' command line

Been planning to put this up for sometime.

Got myself an ACER ASPIRE 5002NWLMi laptop. This piece has the amazing turion 64bit chip from AMD. What a Beauty!

Debian Sarge (amd64 port) runs flawlessy on it and Gnome rocks!
Had to use Ndiswrapper to enable the wireless broadband.

The only thing i had to do was work on the ACPI code. check acpi.sourceforge.net for details.