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Viva la Blackberry!
I’ve now been on with User Support for more than an hour on a Friday afternoon, to fix a Java dysfunction with my payroll application.
Net result: sitting in my office, while a helpful tech support person controls my machine remotely. We’ve got to be pushing speeds of 7 or 8 baud. Seriously. That’s the Speed of Sephamore.
Thanks to the fine folks at RIM and Opera, for making this post possible sans computer.
[Update: We've got it fixed. It was a newer version of Java that did not like to play nicely with the others. We voted it off the island.]
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, computers, java[/tags]
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