More confusion from Palm.

First one application many GSM Palm Pre users has been waiting for, Classic the Palm Pilot emulator, re-appeared in the App Catalog. And for some of the O2 countries there where 20+ applications in the same night bringing it to over 200. But for us with a unlocked German GSM Palm Pre not registered with an O2 sim card lost all applications but the Classic application.

And this came after WebOS 1.3.5 was released for the Sprint network in USA, but not for the GSM Palm Pre users in Europe. When is there going to bee a world wide release. And when will the base WebOS with the base applications and the third party applications going to bee world wide if not specified differently, like the network specific from the networks. Stupid to only bring one network in on the game.

OK, so some of the updates in WebOS 1.3.5 looks promising for the future. First of all the possibility to run really demanding games, with good 3D graphics. And things like higher sampling rate for the gyro. I wonder what else they are going to present on the

App Catalog visible again

Now App Catalog show applications again. Since 1.3.1 it has only reported App Catalog unavailable. So registered with a SIM not 'supported' by palm, yet, I get 5 applications. And guess what two of them are texas holdem applications. Gambling and porn are quick to get global access.

1.3.1 out for the GSM Palm pre

This morning, Swedish time, the WebOS 1.3.1 update for GSM Palm Pre was made available. There is a lot of updates. But maybe not really the updates that many people wants. I just hope more is coming and that fast.

Some said before that 1.3.1 was supposed to be faster, but maybe the most speed gains was in 1.2.1 already. I can not say I really feel that it is a lot faster. OK, the calendar feels faster. Before it kind of froze while it reading from google.

The appstore is not working. I do not know if it is temporary or if it is because they blocking out unknown networks.

Another thing, in 1.3.1 you can manually edit the APN settings. But it does not accept the values I enter. And it is only a limited set of values you can enter. So it might not be enough even if the values I enter was accepted.

Patch 8 for AR System 7.1 released

I had almost forgotten that I was waiting for this patch. Expected it to be released at the same time as patch 3 for 7.5, but it was released now instead.

So again there is an update for all parts. Server wins with about 60 fixes in this release. And, no surprise, there were memory leak fixes again. But there was nothing there that really applied to the current customer I work with. But the errors regarding workflow does not feel good they were there earlier.

I do not think I will rush to upgrade. OK, it looks like there are some important things in this patch. But ITSM is working OK at the moment. So I think 'why fixed something that is not broken' is a good thought at the moment.

Palm Pre

Last week I bought a Palm Pre. In Sweden they are not selling it yet. So I gambled and bought the unlocked one from Germany and hoped it would work with my Swedish operator. And sure it works. But not really out of the box, and not without pain.

But now when it is working it is a really nice telephone. OK, I do not have that much to compare with since this is my first touch screen smartphone. So the basic is great. And the phone has potential. And when you read the forums you will see that many people is working on getting most out of the fact that it is based on linux.

But the applications mostly look like they are early beta or alpha versions. Missing a lot of settings and functions for being really use full. OK, I only have version 1.1.3, since it is the latest supported for the GSM compared to 1.2.1 in ths US.

And also, the battery is not really strong enough for last the whole day, if you are staying connected with WiFi and 3G all day. I read somewhere that there was a new better battery available. But I have not checked that options more.

The real problem I have hade with the phone is the fact that the phone have a database over all operators in the world and there settings for 3G internet, MMS, etc. And of curse a database like that can never be complete. And that mean that the Swedish operators are not correct. So first thing that happened was that the phone think you roaming on 3G. And then it will not let you activate the phone. And since you can not activate the phone you can not choose any other settings. The way I got it working was to step out of 3G into where only have 2G coverage. There are other options to solve the problem. For instance use Meta-Doctor to write an updated/modified version of WebOS to the phone. Actually, for updating the operator database you only need to use WebOS Quick Install to change the database files after you update them outside the phone.

So if you need help or want to read more about the Palm Pre you can visit precentral.net or everythingpre. Another insight to WebOS and the internals is WebOS Internals.

I hope I soon have time to write some nice apps for the Palm Pre. I know one that I have not found yet, unless you run the emulator for palmos.

I recommend this phone, even with all the problems with it being a new OS/platform and all.

Note: WebOS 1.3.1 is soon out in US. Is it about speed. Or what else is new. I hope it will be released here in Europe directly too.

Patch 3 for AR System 7.5 released

Now BMC has release patch 3 for AR System 7.5. I contains many fixes. And some of the fixes make you think if 7.5 has functioned at all before patch 3. And also that there still are some serious bugs that will give some real problems.

• AR System suite installer
• AR System server
• BMC Remedy Approval Server
• BMC Remedy Assignment Engine
• BMC Remedy Data Import
• BMC Remedy Development Studio
• BMC Remedy Email Engine
• BMC Remedy Flashboard
• BMC Remedy Mid Tier
• BMC Remedy User

All these components are updated in the patch. I have not tested any thing yet. Actually, my installation of 7.5p2 has not been used at all. One thing I noticed that I did not know was that web service plugin has moved from the C version of the plugin server and now in the Java plugin server. I guess it is a good move. But then when you see fixes related to web services plugin you know it never going to end up in 7.1. Which is really annoying.

Web services by the way, the infra structure should really by upgraded. AXIS 1.4, it is really old and not containing all the new stuff that will make web services scale. If using AXIS2 or maybe Sun Metro you could use things lite MTOM and XOP to reduce package size and better serialization and encoding/decoding to increase performance. This is really needed. And also I am really annoyed the remove something that worked in 6.3 when they released 7.0. I am referring to sequences in sequences. You can at least in 7.1 work around that since it still stores all the data. But you have to build your own workflow to maintain the references. You even can use the fact that now Request ID is available in phase 3, which is when push happens.

So now I am only waiting for patch 8 of 7.1. And hoping it really contains some good stuff.

Total Commander 7.50 is in the open

One of the tools I have used the longest on the windows platforms are Total Commander, previously known as Windows Commander. The license I have is from 1996. That I get for helping with beta testing. Before that I used it at work where they had a license. It was back in the windows 3.11 days, and I had been a big user of Norton commander in DOS.

So what is new in 7.50. I guess full UNICODE support is the big one. But now also I think Ghisler has let go of the idea of the install have to fit into a floppy. OK, I do not know if or when it got to large. But I guess whit the new help file there is no return. So now the response, it will not fit within the size limit.

Also, Ghisler is now maintaining sftpplug. The problem is that he still can not export the whole package since the laws in his country. So you have to download some files separately. Two DLLs from libcurl.