A brilliant piece of news is that Ovi messenger is in fact Jabber compliant.
My favourite IM client is Trillian (now version 5 beta). I just quickly added a Jabber/XMPP account and used the Ovi mailaddress and password. After this I suddenly could use the Trillian client to send and receive messages to Nokia owning friends. Sure beats the cost of SMS any day of the week!
I simply do not get it.
After reading up on the picasa.ini format, I see that there is a reference to the faces in it; The rect64 value is the location of the rectangle and the 16 byte value after is the person. Like this:
faces=rect64(7aba40739a7c79cc),75bf2e1b31682632
In the end of the picasa.ini file there is a section named [contacts]
75bf2e1b31682632=[my google accountname]_lh,807347f0b130260
The latter must be a reference to an id in the contacts.xml (field bolded – Search path on my Xp installation: c:\Documents and Settings\[name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2\contacts\)
I have a number of “unknown” people in my contacts.xml (such as the one above) – they are all garbage.
<contact id=”b9a1192a96e98d7″ name=”Unknown” display=”Unknown” modified_time=”2010-06-28T18:48:21+02:00″ sync_enabled=”1″>
<subject user=”[my google accountname]_lh” id=”807347f0b130260” person_id=”pISMFWwoX-SCa3htCsnNVl1oaUzi8If3QVwrey6Mlrs”/>
</contact>
As you can see the id for the contact above is the same one as referenced above as the “subject user”
So I am now planning to see if I could make some sort simple of referential integrity validator; all persons referenced in the picasa.ini files must be in the contacts.xml file and those being represented as “unknown” are garbage and should for sure be deleted from the contacts.xml file.
Anyone having any view or insight of this?
MediaPortal 1.1 RC2 is a major lift compared to the 1.02 I used to run, but there are issues; The web interface that I use to access the installation and schedule recordings is called WebInterface 0.6.0.14 beta (kewl name … NOT! 
This suddenly started generating errors on me!
This is the error received:
Error: [AnyDAC][Phys][MySQL][LIBMYSQL] Field ‘series’ doesn’t have a default value
Googling lead me to the MP forum, where quite a few had the same issue. I must say that what I say below does solve the problem (no error message) but I am yet to see if i’s a good thing so that it also works, or I just lost the symptom. Anyway, here’s what to do;
Fire up MySQL Administrator (I have it on the machine but it might be a separate download – i don’t remember). Log on and if you forgot, the default password for the user “root” is “MediaPortal”.
Select “Catalog”, followed by “mptvdb”. Select table “schedule” and then in there you see the field “series”. There are possibly several ways to solve this. The MP forum suggests you set the default value to “1″. This might do it, but it’s in my opinion possibly fixing it by introducing a source of error.What I did was unticking the “Not Null” check-mark. I tried both options and both seem to work, but I would suggest you take my advice on this. My suggestion is having the program accept no value, rather than fooling the checks by introducing a dummy value that could potentially cause error later in the process…
PLEASE mind: Do not follow the suggestion above. It proves that recording stopped working and accessing the guide turned strangely slow. The suggestions found that haven’t been claimed utterly stupid are these;
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/516773-post1120.html
http://code.google.com/p/mp-web-interface/issues/detail?id=34
For some time I have had windows task manager in a tools frame, i.e. with no menu nor visibility to the menu system. I could of course still control it via keyboard (shift tab and then key right of left for selecting the different sub-pages but it is still highly limiting) and not all the pull down menus have key shortcuts (at least not ones I know by heart).
It shows that I can just double click on the outline of the window, and hey presto – it’s there again!
This activator works on a machine with no SLIC …
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5302510/Server_2008__Win_7__Vista__Activator
The area seem fairly complex but the activator seem to support it all …