I watched the game with a couple of friends. What a great match. Overall attractive gameplay. Quick passes keeping the pace high and creating scoring chances for both teams. I wasn’t too sure about this one and neither were my friends. I mostly heard 0-0, 1-0, 0-1 or 1-1. Who could have imagined 4-1?! When Thierry Henry scored for Les Blues (the French team) putting them only one goal behind at 2-1 people around me got anxious. I recalled similar situations where the opponent gets alongside and wins in the end so it was paramount for Oranje (the Dutch team) to prevent France from leveling the score. Only one minute after Henry’s goal Arjan Robben did exactly that and made a beautiful goal from an almost impossible position. If that wasn’t the end for Les Blues then Wesley Sneijder shattered any hopes the French still had.
Free Software Magazine (free subscription here) has a nice analysis by Tony Mobily of Vienna’s failed migration to GNU/Linux. I did not know that Vienna’s IT Department was trying to create there own distribution called Wienux based on debian. I totally agree with Tony that this was a major mistake. Why didn’t they just take CentOS, Fedora or even Red Hat? Fedora is the stepping stone for the next RHEL release and largely sponsored by Red Hat, CentOS is the free version of RHEL and Red Hat is the leading Enterprise Linux vendor. All three distro’s are sound technical choices and when it comes to support and long term viability RHEL is a safe bet too. It would be interesting to learn more details about Vienna’s Wienux decision. My take is that the “techies” got too much leverage and were not properly directed by project management. As a result things spun totally out of control and the decision was made (or pushed) to create Wienux. So all in all I don’t think that Vienna’s migration was a failure from a technical point of view. It was a failure of Vienna’s ability to control the technical direction of the project, validate technical decisions and perform periodic due diligence on the technical and business parameters. And that sounds more like a Program Management and Project Management issue to me.
It has been 5 months since Nokia released the 15.0.015 firmware for the N95 8GB. Isn’t it time, Nokia, to come up with a 2x.x.x release given the issues in the 15.x.x release? How much longer do we have to wait? Or are we, your customers, no longer important now that we have forked over the substantial amount of money for the N95 8GB?
With the imminent release of the iPhone 3G you really need to step up your efforts to keep your N95 customers on board. I know this N95 user will definitely test the iPhone 3G when it becomes available in one month. And given the way you, Nokia, handle the N95 why would I expect anything else for the N96?
What a great game. That should put the memory of the same match in 2000 well to rest. At the 2000 match I was hosting some guys from UUNet. It was a mixed international crowd and some were rooting for Italy. One guy in particular was torn between the Dutch team and the Italian one because he had a Dutch father and an Italian mother. Although he said he did not care who would win, his tears of joy after Italy won seemed to indicate a slight preference for Italy :) Obviously I was disappointed that we had lost but it was a fun evening. This time I enjoyed the game with my gf and some friends at a bar with several big screens. Great fun at the beginning and it got only better. Let’s hope we can pull something like that off on Friday when we play against France.
So I got SIP and IMAP over TLS working on the Nokia N95 8Gb running firmware 15.x.x.x but still no joy. Nokia’s IMAP client seems to choke on the nested IMAP folders served by Dovecot. So I tested this setup with a new test user that only had an Inbox with one message in it. Worked fine. Not sure how to fix this. Suggestions more than welcome.