15 November 2009 10:38 -
Last week I went on a driving training with the company I work for
Snow.
Part of this course was learning how to make a good emergency stop , how to make a lane change
with 70km/h and how to correct front- and rear-wheel slips.
You can get an impression of the day by watching the movie below.
03 November 2009 19:41 -
Since I replaced my trusted Treo 650 with a HTC Hero, I decided it became time that I would have
a possibility to sync my calendars between my phone and my laptop. My laptop being a Mac,
this quickly boiled down to a sharing solution with iCal support. Unfortunately, the HTC Hero
can only connect to Exchange, Outlook and Google Calendar.
Using Google Calendar was of course not an option. I do not want to store my private calendar data
on the servers of a company like Google. From the HTC Hero perspective that only left we with the
Outlook/Exchange choice. As mentioned before, I also want to sync my calendar with iCal on the Mac,
hence the only possible solution seemed to be
Zarafa.
Setting up
Zarafa proved to be straight forward. I just followed the following steps:
- Install a Centos 5 host on a kvm machine using netboot
- Run yum update on this machine and reboot.
- Download the Zarafa Community edition (I do not need more than 3 users)
- Follow the Zarafa installation manual
- Enable zarafa-ical
- Made the machine reboot proof by enabling the zarafa services with chkconfig
During this I ran into 2 very very minor problems. First of all the manual did not
state that you had to extract the .tar.gz file. This is of course logical step to take, but
I am a little picky about the correctness of manuals. The second issue was that
sysstat is not mentioned in the dependencies of
Zarafa in the manual.
After the fixing of said problems,
I had a working
Zarafa server which could sync with iCal.
For syncing with the HTC Hero I had to install
Z-push on the server to be able to use active-sync.
The installation of
Z-push looked very easy, however after following the installation manual and
configuring the HTC Hero I ran into the following error:
Account could not be created, please try again later.
After some searching I found the solution
here.
And now it works like a charm.
