Mobile – it is for communication

Today I came across a very good post by Helen Keegan on “There is no future on mobile”

We forget that the mobile phone is a communication device

It was designed for us to talk to each other. It was designed for us to be able to communicate with our friends, family, colleagues and lovers by voice, text, instant message, email, facebook, twitter, whatever. But it’s about communication. In every region of the world, mobile data traffic is largely driven by social networking – whether that’s Peperonity, Cyworld, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter – it doesn’t really matter. It does mean that it’s the human communication that’s important to us and drives the desire to explore mobile devices further in order to find other ways to communicate with loved ones.

The mobile phone is personal, it’s precious, it’s an object of desire and it’s our access to the outside world. It’s also a necessity and a basic tool to participate in UK society (according to the latest Joseph Rowntree report).

Gorbatchev about the war in South Ossetia

Mikhael Gorbachev wrote in washington post today:

Through all these years, Russia has continued to recognize Georgia’s territorial integrity. Clearly, the only way to solve the South Ossetian problem on that basis is through peaceful means. Indeed, in a civilized world, there is no other way.

Update:
Starts the cyber war around Georgia?
Has the today’s gmail outage something todo with the war?

Civil,ge, the Georgian news site, is “under permanent [cyber] attack.” So they’ve switched their operations to one of Google’s Blogspot domains, to keep the information flowing about what’s going on in their country.

Adobe AIR install under Ubuntu 64-bit fails

i tried to install my favorite twitter client Twhirl under Ubuntu 64-bit.

The fun ended with download error of Adobe AIR

otrs ticket system installation under ubuntu

It is very easy to install OTRS under Ubuntu Linux:

apt-get install otrs libgd-text-perl libgd-graph-perl aspell ispell libmail-audit-perl spellutils spell aspell-en aspell-de aspell-en wngerman wamerican mail-audit-tools