When I used the BlackBerry simulator I was unable to connect to internet from the build-in browser. In order to enable internet access, follow the steps below.
BB menu -> Manage Connections -> Setup Wifi network
The wifi wizard starts.
Choose Next ->Manually Add Network
Enter “Default WLAN Network” as SSID and choose Add
Choose “No security” and pick Connect
Pick Save (do not choose for connect, since this fails).
Pick Next
Done!
Update 16-05-2011:
It turns out that the method described above also works when a BlackBerry prompts for a PIN code in an open network. Just enter the name (SSID) of the open network as the network name and your BlackBerry can connect to an open network without entering a PIN code.
general
blackberry
I have set up a PPTP VPN client on my Ubuntu server. Unfortunately when the server reboots, the connection goes down and stays down. After a long search I found a solution on this website. It is simple bash script, which checks if the VPN server (which had the VPN ip of 10.8.3.0) is pingable. If not it restarts the PPTP VPN connection.
ping -c3 10.8.3.0 > pingreport
result=`grep "0 received" pingreport`
truncresult="`echo "$result" | sed 's/^\(.................................\).*$/\1/'`"
if [[ $truncresult == "3 packets transmitted, 0 received" ]]; then
pon company-vpn
fi
I execute this script every five minutes, by editing the /etc/crontab file and added the following rule:
*/5 * * * * root bash /root/vpn-check.sh
Linux
pptp, Ubuntu, ubuntu server, VPN
Imageoptim is a free tool for OSX which optimises JPG, PNG and GIF images for the web. This tool is a lossless image compressor. In my test it reduced the image size by 60% on average.
Software
OSX