When we think back to Windows 95 times, we all remember that we rebooted the machine once a while. This helped to resolve many issues a couple of time and especially had a positive impact on the performance of the machine.

Well, with Windows Mobile, I am experiencing the same situation. Pretty often I have to turn the phone of and back on again. I am not an expert an finding out why, but it is quite obvious that windows mobiles “pollutes” the system memory after running for a couple of days.

Tools that can help is for example the memory collection from Oxios. Theses tools can help you to close running programs all at once and also tries to “clean” your memory. However, these tools help to close and clean, but you still will see that the remaining memory gets less and less after a while. So,lets reboot….

In Windows Mobile, there is no way to reboot the phone. There is shareware in the web which add this feature but also another system tools. Well, in case you just want to reboot, I have something for you and it looks like this:

It simply adds the reboot command to the QuickList. In order to add this feature, just download this file: Reboot.cab , copy it to your Windows Mobile device and install.
Now you have the Reboot option inside the Quick List and there is no need to turn off \ turn on procedures. Well, it saves some time and especially nerves.

I tested it on Windows Mobile 6 but I red that is should work on WIndows Mobile 5 just was well. Just a hint, after I installed it, Windows Mobile had some problems to reload the HomeScreen. Just selecting the same HomeScreen in the HomeScreen Settings did fix this.

Enjoy!

BTW.: Use it at your own risk.

These Pictures were taken on a Business Trip to Spain in January 2008. It was a beautyfull sunset.

Acctually this post is just for testing. I bought an new camera and now I have to update my Website, so I can post my pix here. Here we go:

Blogging is popular. I do not know how many blogs are in the WWW by today, but in April 2005, there were estimated 50 million blogs already ( read this article).

Why the heck
I did not invest any time now to find a more recent article, but the number today must be tremendously higher. Actually it is great; everybody can easily write his opinion into the public. This is real freedom of speech. But do you know what; sometimes I really wonder why the heck some people think that anybody is interested in his “content”. Jaja, I know. You think I have to ask this question to myself as well. Right! I am lost.

What about myself
So what are people interested to? Hm, no easy answer to this question, let’s take myself as an example:
My first webpage was actually for an application. And that time I just finished my studies and was looking for my first real job. So this webpage had a real target group, and therefore the best content. Right? Well, you must agree that the content of this webpage was goal oriented, for very few people it might has been interesting, but in case you are not really interested in me as a person, this webpage was totally useless. By the way: I never really asked if the company, which hired me, checked the webpage out or not. I guess they did. HR checks anything when you apply for a position. In case you want to know: It was Microsoft Germany. After I started to have a real job, there was no interest and need to have a webpage anymore. So I did not do anything anymore for a couple of years.

Big Number
The chance to get some web space and therefore some kind of access to all people in the world, no matter where they are, is almost something scary. Can you imagine how many people could have access to your website ……. 1,114,274,426. WOW, if you are interested in the usage of the internet, go to this website to get all the data: Internet World Stats.
More than one billion people could read your webpage when we just assume that they know the language. Everybody knows what one billion is, but do you really undertand? Check this out: How much is a billion . One billion seconds is more than 31 years. So we should really care about the content of our webpage.

What I did yesterday
Believe it or not, huge parts of the blogs you can find have this as a topic, or at least they go in the same direction. Yesterday I saw this movie. Yesterday I ate this. Yesterday I bought this DVD. Tomorrow is today yesterday ………. Ok, anyway. I can find a lot of blogs which are very personal. There is nothing wrong with it, but where is the sense. Is this a I meet somebody an talk to him replacement? Who will read this? Ok, being optimistic: All relatives, all friends, all colleagues …. this is very optimistic already. So don’t you think it would be much better to call them, or to meet them and talk about what-I-did-yesterday stuff. Sometimes I have the feeling that these people might do not have any relatives, any friends, any colleagues. And having a blog is the hope that at least somebody is interested in me.

Sorry
Yes, I agree. Above I say that this is freedom of speech. So everybody can write anything. The reason why I thought I want to write this article is because yesterday …….. LOL. Very funny. No really, it happens sometimes that I am doing a research in the Internet and land on such blogs. And when I have a bad day, this really pisses me of then. Because there is no content, no real information.
Example: Yesterday I saw the movie ABC, it is with this and this actor, the story is about this and this. I liked the movie very much. FULLSTOP. See this information might help me when I know the author pretty well. And how money people out of the billion do know him well?
I am sorry, everybody can do whatever he wants inside the internet, this is how it is, and it shouldn’t be changed! I mean it! It is great! It is just my personal opinion and for me, these websites are totally useless. The people should spent their money and time for something more constructive in my eyes.

I am just the same kind of person
Yes, I am. Who the hell is interested in what I am writing here. Since the http://c-jay.net website exists, I had about 30,000 visits . In the past the people came because I created two modules for XOOPS and they could be downloaded. You can find them under the Old C-JAY.net, but now? Nothing to download= No Content? Hm, since the redesign 40 people registered on this website, why the hell do they register? Well, this question might be answered someday.
By the way: The domain www.no-content.com is still available.

I am surfing and searching the Internet for quite some time already (it must have been almost 15 years now). And I am still experiencing strange situations once in a while. For example the problem with the stupid Windows Offline Folders. Here is the story:

The Problem:

This many years I have in job a notebook instead of a desktop computer. Actually since 1999 when I started working for Microsoft in Germany. However, when Microsoft Released Windows 2000, there was also a new feature called “Offline Folders”.

For those of you who do not know what this is (I wonder why you are reading this article then). Here a short explanation: Use Offline Files When You’re off the Network (this article is about XP but in Windows 2000 it is the same, they just changed the name from folders to files …)

Now the feature is actually great. I do not have to be online in order to have access to my files on the fileserver. But it becomes terrible when you notebook thinks it is online, and you are actually not really online but connected through a vpn-tunnel with you corporate network. So you are more offline than online.
But since windows finds the fileserver and all the files through the vpn-tunnel, it assumes that it can access the files directly from the server. Since the connection from a remote location is never as good as when you are directly connected to the companies network, and the vpn-tunnel makes this even worth, this can become a pretty bad nightmare.

My Documents
On my notebook, I configured the “My Documents” folder to be on our fileserver in our company network. This has the advantage the they are saved in a central place in our company (if I want I can have access from any branch office in the whole world) and I do not have to worry about backups since the fileserver is backed up regularly from our IT department. Fine! Great! Perfect! ….. .
Since I am traveling so much, this feature lost a lot of its attraction. When I am on travel, I have to have access to my Mailbox through Outlook. And I get this access via vpn through the Internet. Also I have the files cached on my notebook, Windows decides to download the files from the fileserver. You can imagine that this really hearts. Especially when you want to have a look at a Powerpoint. 

The Solution:

For more then two years know, I travel more and more for my job. So the offline folder became more and more important. So I was surfing and searching the Internet in the hope to find a solution. How can I tell windows that it should use the cached version and not the server one. I found several user who had the same problem. But it seems that nobody had a solution in place.

Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
It was just two weeks ago, I was working from my homeoffice, and this problem was driving me nuts again. Although I already researched the Internet for a couple of time, I tried it one last time.
And suddenly I found the solution. After two years I found it, and for my surprise, it was a very “official” solution.
I found that inside the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools there is a tool called csccmd.exe, which easily solves my problem. The official name is “Client-Side Caching Command-Line Options”. Together with the /disconnect switch, it just tell the offline files that they are offline. And so you can work with you offline version whenever you want. Here are the functions which are most important for me:

csccmd /DISABLE    - Disables the Caching in general
csccmd /ENABLE     - Guess what …. it enables it again

cscccmd /DISCONNECT:\\Server\Share   - if you want you can disable just a specific share