Category: tethered blackberry

verizon blackberry 9630 tour

finally. The point here is that my 8703e was obsolete when I got it. But, I need a capable phone with no camera and it was the best option at the time. Which is to say, drat! Why is my phone a dinosaur and everyone else has cool and groovy? So,… more »

bittersweet success

Several days have passed, including an upgrade with a new kernel and my KDE4 desktop is working fine.It seems that the problems I used to have (crashing plasma when I put too many icons and widgets into the panels and desktop) are resolved. So, that "cl… more »

stuff i don't even begin to understand

A while ago, I began the quest to get my blackberry to "tether" my linux computer to the internet. And after awhile, I finally got it to work.Although, I will have to say every use was/is a geek-a-thon compared to using the verizon software for tetherin… more »

eternal frustrations of the bluetooth kind

So, wouldn't you know it, my bluetooth Blackberry connection wouldn't work today. There have been so many software changes, I have no idea what change has caused the problem. I tried adding software (eg. compatibility modules) removing software (eg.… more »

arrghh! of the day...

So, I decided it was time to get a web server running. This was brought about by the [potential] need to stream some video, which was brought about by a relative having a new baby boy (congrats!). I installed apache, but of course, I did not do it co… more »