Monthly Archives: October 2006

The wicket-team is pleased to announce the release of Wicket 1.2.3! This is a bug fix release for Wicket and is the last release for the 1.2 branch, which now enters maintainance mode. We will now focus on Wicket 2.0 and 1.3.

Even though it is a bug fix release some new features has also sneaked in. F.ex. JMX support, which in 1.2 is in a different project but in 2.0 will be integrated in core.

Oh, and by the way. Martijn has created a special Halloween look for the wicket website. Check it out )

(For those reading this long after halloween 2006 take a look at the screenshot below):

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Finally I did it! I established a bluetooth connection to my mobile and used it as a modem to connect to the internet. It has actually been something that I started trying a couple of months ago. Back then I read about how to connect using bluetooth and how to use the mobile as a modem and to initialize a GPRS connection setting on the phone. I also got as far as to actually do the connecting and dialing, and I could see on the mobile that it was connected but I didn’t get a proper IP address and couldn’t reach the internet.

Since I have had a lot of other stuff to do and had almost forgotten about it entirely until yesterday when I decided to give it a last chance. I found out that I had use the wrong dial string for my mobile so I didn’t use the correct GPRS setting (duh!). When I saw Google load for the first time I couldn’t help shouting “YES”. Normally I don’t even recognize when I do that but this time I was in THE TRAIN on my way home (and even worse I sat in a cupe where you have to be quiet!).

So how did I do it? To be honest I don’t really know. But after having looked around a bit I found [this guide][guide], which pretty much describes what I did. The only difference is that I created two launchers on my panel which I use for starting and stopping the connection. Works like a charm :)

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[guide]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup