From IRC - #k-9 @ freenode (10/8/22, anomymized), I am <HM>...

<F>HM: if you have a custom ROM with proper iptables support, you could use DroidWall to prevent K-9 from using non-WiFi connections
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<HM>F, *g* I lika that .... cracking a nut with a sledgehammer
<F>;)
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<HM>.oO(I worked with iptables maybe 10 years ago...and I never thought I could use this knowledge on my mobile somdays)
<T>I've seen ".oO(...)" 10 years ago and I never thought I'd see it again. ;)
<HM>ROTFL
<T>wow, and a T in "rofl".
<T>You ARE old skool.

Well, Thanks, I know I'm getting old ;-)

Couple of days ago, I updated my machines to Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. Everything works really smoothly: Hardware is recognized and supported, no issues with my xrandr-dual-screen as well as my homesticksyncing. 

Well, KDE got one BIG, LARGE issue. Just google for Akonadi self-test failure.

The Akonadi server is a information server under the hood of KDE - mostly used by the sematic desktop stuff. Prior update I switched the Akonadi server to use a local mysql server for saving some resources. As suggested here, this is done my checking the Akonadi option "Use internal MySQL server". Well, the new version seems to NOT support this option - the server cant start and due to this some KDE applications like kmail and kontact (which I used) cant start up. Even worse: Since the server cant start, there is no GUI to uncheck the "Use internal MySQL server" option!

Afer some investigation and reading this, I figured out a semi-perfect solution: One can simply delete ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc, which seem to store the "bad" configuration. After deletion, the server could be started but all kontact data seems to be lost. Luckily, this could be imported from "~/.kde/share/apps/kabc", which seems to be the old place for addresses.

This story really gives me to think about KDE as a integrated desktop environment....

Ich spreche im Rahmen des RBG-Seminars "meiner" alt ehrwuerdigen (das 20jaehrige wird im Mai 10 zelebriert) Technischen Fakultaet der Uni Bielefeld über
"Als Informatiker im Ingenieurbereich der Prozessautomatisierung" - ein kleiner Abriss meiner Laufbahn vom frischen Dipl.-Greenhorn zum noch-nicht-Dr.Ing..
Ich hoffe es wird ein lockerer, teilweise lustiger aber auch hintergruendiger Vortrag, wie man sich als Informatiker in meinem jetzigen Arbeitsbereich fuehlen kann.

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