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Spiderpig comes!

and I nearly thought nobody uses agent technology ...

I just started writing my diploma thesis on agent technology at the chair of computer science 4. While working on this topic I recognized that there was much research over the past two decades, but no applications one can find "in the real world".

Till now. Thanks to our government and some mysterious  companies there seem to be some products and need for them: Click me.

But if you are still interested in  sound agent technology and rulebased systems visit www.jamocha.org.

 What else happend that last few month? Hm, I finally did my exam in electro-technics and visited the Graspop Metal Meeting again. So everything is fine :-) 

error after typo3 update

I justed updated all my typo3 "installations" from version 4.0.4 to the new version 4.1.1. After I did that I encountered this error in the frontend:

Google didn't really help me to solve this problem. So after some different attempts I started the database analyzer in the Installation Tool. A click on "Compare with $TCA" showed some errors in the Extension Static Info Library (sr_static_info). I then opened this extension in the Extension Manager and already got a message that some tables need to be updated (which wasn't really obvious from the initial error message ...). After confirming this everything was fine again. Hope this may help others having the same problem :-)

They're dead again, finally!

Type o Negative's new record "Dead Again" was released a few days ago and I got my copy this morning from the parcel service. Since then I'm listening to it without a break and the only word that describes it best is "great" ...

It is less doomy than the last ones and much faster just as in their old days. I also thought about which song to mention here as the best one in my opinion but it's simply impossible to say. All songs are equally great and have their own atmosphere and brilliance although their stile isn't really comparable among each other. You can listen to some songs of the record here. I can't wait to see them live at the Graspop again with the new stuff.

Last week Emmy and I were at the Nine Inch Nails concert in Cologne and it was a real good show. Trent had a good mixture of songs from all their records. Their light show was great even though the Palladium was to small for a beamer. I didn't believe that one could make such a great thing out of "some" lights and synthetic fog. Trent also held a speech about their first visit to Germany ever. You can find it here. Believe me, it is worth watching :-)

What is the best Vista?

The new Windows Vista comes in many different versions, not only home and professional like XP before. Then again every version is separated into update and full version. So which one do you have to choose?  Here is the answer:

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/915.html 

The open phone is coming

After the euphoria about the iphone is mostly gone (although it is a nice device you are too much restricted to the software apple provides with it and it's just too expensive) I checked the Openmoko Mailinglist again. The developers published their roadmap there for the further steps in the Openmoko-development.

Here a short summary:

• 2007-02-11 Phase 0: Developer Preview
  The phone will be given to some developers for testing purposes, the sourcecode will become publicly available and the community dedicated websites will be available.
• 2007-03-11 Phase 1: Official Developer Launch
  The Neo1973 will be available on www.openmoko.com for US$350 + shipping.
• 2007-09-11 Phase 2: Mass Market Sale
  Beside the online sales the phone will also be available at selected carriers and retail stores worldwide. A second generation of the phone will also be introduced around this time.

Additionally some specs for the FIC Neo1973 were announced:

• 2.8" VGA (480x640) TFT Screen
• Samsung s3c2410 SoC @ 266 MHz
• Global Locate AGPS chip
• Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE)
• Unpowered USB 1.1
• Touchscreen
• micro-sd slot
• 2.5mm audio jack
• 2 additional buttons
• 1200 mAh battery (charged over USB)
• 128 MB SDRAM
• 64 MB NAND Flash
• Bluetooth (2.0)

the iphone: it's everything :-)

a new toy

Can't say more than this:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

:-)

IM on Mac OS X? Try Gaim!

You always wanted to have one program for all your Instant Messaging protocols that should run on all operating systems you use? Gaim is the best choice for Linux and Windows in my opinion. It is not to big, fast and simple but nevertheless extensible. But what to run on Mac OS X?

Till now I use Adium but it sometimes disconnects without me recognizing it and doesn't reconnect properly. With fink and X11 for Mac OS X you have the opportunity to install Gaim on your Mac. It doesn't look nice in contrast to the aqua theme but does it job very well in its first test. The only problem I see at the moment is notification which doesn't work at all and the application doesn't integrate into the dock as native programs do. If someone has a solution please let me know. The only one I can think of is waiting until there's a real port to Mac OS X available.