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Emerge multisync with evolution2

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

After I upgraded to Evolution2 the multisync fails to emerge with the following error:

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: @EVO_LDFLAGS@: No such file or directory
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: @EVO_LIBS@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [libevolution2_sync.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3/work/multisync/plugins/evolution2_sync/src’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3/work/multisync/plugins/evolution2_sync’
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: app-pda/multisync-0.83_pre20050414-r3 failed.

I found tips for the solution in this German [...]

Gmail Mobile

Friday, December 16th, 2005

When I read that Google has opened up access to Gmail for mobile phones I was eager to give it a try. I opened up the default browser in my Sony Ericsson k700i phone and entered http://m.gmail.com. The page loaded fine, logged in, but it says I need to enable cookies on this browser… [...]

Opera Mini   looks like a promising browser for a J2ME mobile. It uses remote server to process the web before serving to the phone. Let's hope it saves me some bills.
GlobalTime   is a neat little application that gives you the local time when you scroll across the little world map.
Thinkwiki   is a cool wiki for Thinkpad hardware specifications.

Password protected harddisk troubles with usb casing

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

I borrowed an usb casing for my old 2.5″ laptop harddisk. However it kept giving me “invalid partition table” error when I tried to access it, or format it. It works fine however with the 2nd harddisk adaptor for the cdrom bay.

Finally I realised that the harddisk was password protected, so when it was in [...]