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....

Some time ago, I wrote here...Sorry!

T'day I had a look at Chrome and Chromium as alternative to Mozilla's "the one" Firefox Browser. And I must state that I'm very disappointed: Some functionality, which is quite "normal" for my every day browsing behaviour is missing. Especially some Buttons for quickly "disable referer sending" (for Firefox I use RecControl extension) and "per-site and default Cookie-Behaviour" (for Firefox I use CookieButton) are missing.

As far as I found out (googling and reading maillist-discussions) there is currently no concept for extension-http-request-manipulation, which makes it impossible to realize thus things as extensions. Scary...

Anybody has a hint on this?