March 2009 - Posts

Windows Mobile 6.1 and Australian DST

I have an HTC Touch Pro. Runs Windows Mobile 6.1 - and I'm really happy with the device. Unfortunately WinMo 6 timezone definitions do not include the right settings for Australia - we changed the start dates and end dates a while back.

I couldn't find a suitable download from Microsoft to fix the timezones, but I did find a TimeZone Editor on MobilitySite. If you're a Firefox user you'll need to allow scripting to be able to download the ZIP file (I've also attached it below - it is not my work but that of "Galina" in New Zealand).

Five steps required:

  1. Run the application (extract it to your storage card or \Program Files or similar)
  2. Action --> Get Current
  3. Change the start and end date rules (not intuitive). I think "5 Sunday" means last Sunday of the month
  4. Action --> Set Current
  5. Restart the phone.

That last one was the most annoying - I spent ages trying to figure out why the change had not worked.

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Australian BlackList released to the world

Well, no surprises there. The Australian list of blocked sites is supposedly now in the wild - and all reports I've seen thus far indicate it's correct, at least for the most part.

ACMA has come down pretty hard on sites linking to blocked material and since the list is sure to contain at least one site that really IS on the list, I can't in good conscience link to the leaked list.

But I'm thinking that if you searched Google for it, you'd find it on a community edited site (a wiki) containing government and corporate leaks. Possibly even run by a non-profit org.

As before, my key concerns are that there's no way to request that you be removed from the list, and that the list contains sites that are, at least at this moment in time, NOT illegal, X rated or R rated. Many of the sites apparently link to dead pages or items, and thus return 404's. Others seem to be miscategorized - a dentist, a tourist operator.

References: OCAU, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, WhirlPool.