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  What Kind Of Language Is This?

  Mirco 15:10 on Monday, 10. November 2008 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anoyance, apple (4), bugs, correction (2), error, fail, google (4), iphone (6), meme, text

  If there is one thing on my iPhone I could kill someone over it would be the auto correction.

  Since my phone is set to German I do expect it to correct my German typos, instead it create new ones. The first three lines represent a german and the latter three a english version of roughly the same sentence.

  

  Neither is spelled right. I don’t mind that Caps are not corrected, but i do mind that it automatically changes correctly written words into something that doesn’t even exist.

  What the Hell is “rächtachreinkorrektur”? You can’t even find a word like this on Google! But what I did type was: “Rechtschreibkorrektur”. So why autocorrect something that’s not misspelled?

  It gets even better if I try typing English text. “Äre” would be Swedish, Quedt turned out to be a family name, THW is an organization like EPA, that actually does help, and the only reference to “fünfion” I found is in the book:

  Oekonomische Encyklopädie

  By Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski.

  Published in 1805.

  Remarkably I did find a reference to “Sehepoper” on Google… about the iPhone auto correction.

   

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  So, you got yourself an iPhone

  Mirco 20:15 on Sunday, 26. October 2008 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 16gb, apple (4), appstore, barcode, black, contract, error, flashlight, iphone (6), ipod, itunes, payment, remote, ringtone, sennheiser, store, t-mobile, tmobile, twitterific, ww50

  Congratulation! You are now the proud owner of an overprized communication accessory with a TCO of roughly 1000€ (provided you’ll only use it within the 24 month contract period).

  In order to minimize the impact on your generous monthly salary you’ve chosen the smallest option package with only 200MB Internet traffic and 50 minutes of call time. Short messages will set you back another 19 cents each.

  This resulted in paying 250€ for your 16GB iPhone upfront and an additional 50€ for some decent quality earphones with iPhone handsfree functionality.

  

  After unpacking you wonder where to put the SIM card since you didn’t find any useful opening or the strange metal object attached to the outside of the manuals cardboard case. Since there was no printed first step manual in the box you searched on your providers website… which also didn’t have any answers. On the Apple iPhone homepage you only found an old tutorial video for the deprecated GPRS model going through the activation process.

  Some minutes later you actually discovered a downloadable manual, which explained the first steps and how to insert a SIM into the iPhone. And after restarting the device you where finally ready to start the registration process.

  You stroll through the iTunes AppStore and collect some free useful tools like Remote and Barcode, add the free version of twitterific and Flashlight (just in case). You wonder, who’ll pay 19€ for an application that’s also available for free and continue on your quest for making this mobile phone do something useful by connecting it to your personal WLAN.

  Your attempt to create a personal ringtone is always replied with the following message

  
  “iTunes could not connect to the iTunes Store. An unknown error occurred (11556).”

  …which is odd, because you were just browsing the iTunes Store.

  But at least you have a new iPod, in case the old one gives up on you.

   
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  SCOM Agent Trouble

  Mirco 13:16 on Thursday, 28. August 2008 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: -2130771964, agent (2), console, error, google (4), install, manager (2), msi, operations (2), restart, scom (4), service (2), solution, system center (2), troubleshooting, uninstall

  Two weeks ago I installed the KB954049 on our Operations Manager servers. This “allows” me to update all of our 1500 agents, that are currently deployed.

  Four days, some Alerts form the IDS and multiple retries later there are still 60 agents left and refusing every attempt to be updated to version 6.0.6278.32. I’m still not sure why a domain administrator gets an “Access Denied” when trying to initiate a remote installation but I will figure this out, eventually.

  Today I noticed something new. Several, already updated Agents are grayed out on the status view. The servers are up an running, according to ping. A short look at the Computer Management shows the Agent is running too, but when I try to restart the service I’m prompted with some error message and the ID: -2130771964.

  Unfortunately Google isn’t a great help finding this error. There are only a handful results that focus on installing agents, but I have trouble restarting the service.

  My next thought was to try the Change/Repair option in “Add/Remove Software”, which stopped with the same Error code as restarting the service. Somebody must have been very creative in defining error codes for these agents.

  OK, if I can’t repair it, maybe I can uninstall it… and it worked, with the slight limitation that the uninstaller was unable to remove the installation folder.

  The next step was redistributing the Agent from the OpsMgr console, which went through with no errors at all.

   
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  Facebook down?

  Mirco 10:30 on Friday, 2. May 2008 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: community (2), down, error, facebook (3), offline (2), outage, social (3), web

  Now, this is what I call a spam free Facebook!

  Recently I had the impression that Facebook more and more becomes a spam and ranting platform. everyday I have to read through tons of abusive comments, spam application invitations, just to find the important messages that are actually for me or at least interesting to me.

  So I was going through my daily social web lookup, to see if anything happened and to delete some more spam from my accounts. When I opened my Facebook link it looked like this.

  

  Yeah, it’s in German, but since the site won’t work I can’t switch the language to see if it’s a general problem or just the localization.

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  UPDATE: Seems like it’s “only” staring page that doesn’t work.