Acquiring my Nokia E52 recently I wanted to make use of the integrated VoIP capabilities (no additional tools like Fring are needed). I will summarise the steps I took to get Voice over IP working (using BETAMAX JustVoip.com service). The settings should be more or less the same for other BETAMAX services like voipdiscount.com, jumblo.com, telbo.com, etc.

As a prerequisite you should have already registered an account with justvoip.com or another BETAMAX service of your choice.

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Cakefest 2009 was held from 9th-12th July 2009 in Berlin. Luckily I was able to attend the two day conference part of it on Saturday and Sunday. The crowd was really international. People from all over the world gathered – even folks from Australia and Japan joined the event. The bakers were overall very friendly and helpful – the talks really great! Read the rest of this entry »

Installing (x)Ubuntu on my dated Toshiba Satellite everything went smooth. Just after finishing the installation and getting the first package updates a strange Error with system-tools-backends occured.

Luckily this problem is already known and a Workaround to fix this problem exists.

Open up a terminal and type the following:

sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop

sudo dpkg –configure -a

This resolved the error for me – thanks to Islevegan for his post on launchpad

Find a thorough description and how to resolve on launchpad

As the geek that I am it was too tempting to immediately upgrade to the latest version of my (current) beloved linux distro. I expected everything to run smoothly – which as reality showed me again – is often not the case. And yes – I should have known better

The Upgrade ran without problems, but after restarting my system – a black screen was greeting me. A bit of research using Links showed me that I am not the only one running into problems after the upgrade.

After tinkering around and wasting almost a whole night I managed to have KDM, X and my Desktop running again.

If you are running into similar problems – Kubuntu Ugrade to 8.10 – X Server doesn’t start – KDM not default Display Manager, please have a read of my post to the Ubuntu Forums where I summarized my efforts getting my X-Server and Desktop back.

Not such a pleasant start – but I am looking forward