Monat: September 2010
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Data Roaming?
Coming home from two weeks abroad and some idle time to think, I have a few more topics to blog about. One of them is one of the things I consider one of the most obscene forms of ripoff the mobile phone carriers do is „data roaming.“ If you want to bring your smartphone online, what…
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
It is a widely held belief that Steve Jobs is a man to transform industries. He’s done it before, and I think he (with his company Apple) has set his eyes to do it yet again. This time, it’s telephony. And I can’t blame him, it is a god-awful industry we (as a species, globally)…
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Lessons in customer support
I – probably along with many, many others of the iPhone Twitter App – discovered something that I consider a bug. As soon as you rotate the phone, your position in your timeline is utterly garbled. Where you are after turning has no resemblance whatsoever to where you were before. That means: Take the phone,…
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Mailman problems
For one of lists, one of the subscribers had the strangest problem. He kept getting bounces that the list alias does not even exist, whilst at the same time other subscribers could well write to that list. It turns out that his mail server was rewriting the To:-address, resolving the CNAME of the hostname that…