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Swyx Trace Tool, the diagnostics tool we introduced in v6.12, has got some new features, too. The automatic cleanup tasks now has three steps:

Step 1: All trace files of each application except the current one are compressed into a ZIP file Step 2: All memory dump files are compressed into a ZIP file Step 3: Old ZIP files are deleted according to the auto-cleanup settings The compression is done on a low-priority thread to not disturb normal operation. Because...

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That wasn’t unexpected. Today Microsoft announced that Windows PowerShell will be preinstalled on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m using it since the first available beta and will never go back to the legacy command prompt and batch files. Unfortunately there’s...

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One of the minor feature the Swyx Client Team were able to add to SwyxWare v6.20 while Open Stage Support was being implemented is a preview of SwyxIt! skins shown …

I finally found a sourcecode formatting plugin for Windows Live Writer …

Usually Microsoft Security Updates are released regularly on “Patch-Tuesday” each month. An hour ago Microsoft released an out-of-band security update.

You might have already recognized when you’re testing SwyxWare v6.20 Beta. There are some new hyperlinks in SwyxIt. The one on the skin selection dialog opens your default web browser and navigates to the skin download page on the Swyx website.

SwyxWare v6.20 mainly is SwyxWare v6.12 plus SwyxPhone Lxxx (Siemens OpenStage Phone) support. That feature determined the schedule and release date. Fortunately not every colleague was involved in implementing that feature. Some had time to add something else.

I won’t write about how to use the new Phones. You have to experience that by yourself.

There are some interesting technical changes, however. Before v6.20 when a SwyxPhone Lxxx logs in, a TCP...

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:-D

Warning: Technical content ahead. XML and programming know-how required :-)

Today a colleague mentioned an issue with our setup build process for SwyxWare v7.0. We have some xml configuration files which need to be adapted depending on the product language or OEM version. These files have settings like this:

SwyxWare v6.20 Beta that is. We’re in code freeze phase for two weeks now which means we’re done implementing features, the source code is locked down and we only fix high priority bugs. Later this month we plan to release a beta version. I don’t know if it will be fully public, for all partners or for selected partners and distributors only.

I plan to write a few blog posts about some of the new features. Stay tuned.

Homer Simpson votes for Barack Obama. Or at least he tries to:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ

In contrast to Springfield, real-word voting computers are much more subtle. You won't recognize at all if they're manipulated. And not only in Germany politicians have a disturbing blind faith in that type of technology.

It’s somewhat embarrassing. Today, October 4th, 2008 my grandfather would have been 100 years old and I was totally unaware of it. He died in 1979. The city of Dortmund however did not forget it:

http://www.fhi.dortmund.de(German)

 There's a video on the Swyx website about Puma in the UK which switched to SwyxWare recently. Their IT manager explains why they choose our solution. It's the usual marketing stuff,

[Repost, after it got lost during the last website crash]

During the whole week I wanted to write this blog post, but never got around doing it.

 

About two weeks ago I stumbled about a CD called HA!, released this month as part of the “Young German Jazz” series of music label ACT. It’s the first CD of Jörg Brinkmann Trio. Jörg Brinkmann plays cello, Oliver Maas piano and fender rhodes, Dirk-Peter Kölsch drums, glockenspiel, objects. The description on the website sounded interesting and I looked for live concerts. The next one was in their home town Bochum, just a few kilometres away. And the venue was quite interesting.

The concert took place in a kind of big garage below a railway track, called ROTTSTR 5....

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Seems like the latest iTunes 8 update for Windows has a major new feature: It causes BSODs:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=536

These types of crashes are very rare nowadays. I can’t remember seeing one on my Vista x64 notebook ever.

But back to iTunes:

Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich Gelegenheit, Volker Pispers live zu erleben. Großartig. Unbedingt ansehen!

Dieses Thema hat er, etwas variiert und länger, übrigens auch gebracht:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=unX6mu4OxE8

:-)

Es gibt übrigens noch eine Menge mehr von ihm auf youtube. Aber live ist auf jeden Fall besser.

It seems Google’s Chrome is not only fast at browsing. Three days of Chrome and here’s the next exploit:

Chrome “Save As” Function Buffer Overflow

A stack-based buffer overrun? I thought these type of flaws are a thing of the past, at least in modern web browsers.

There have been rumours for a long time. Now it’s official. Google will release an own web browser today. I’ve mixed feelings about this. Another tool offering useful functionality for free in exchange of collecting our private data more easily?