I wanted to take advantage of the €150 upgrade to IDEA 5.0 before September 1st. I am doing very little Java at the moment, but I will be doing some in the next two months or so.

The only problem is I couldn’t find the email I received with the license key during my last upgrade. I think it dissapeared during the second of 3 major hard disk failures I’ve had in the past year and a half. Luckily I have been guarding my idea40.key file on various backups.

I made an inquiry via the JetBrains web site asking if I could send it to them and within 30 minutes I got a reply from Lucie at JetBrains with a handy direct link to upgrade with my license key already filled in. There was no need to send the my license key. I think this is wonderful service. Many places force you to fight through all sorts of complicated procedures. Thank you Lucie for making it easy to upgrade.

Another great thing is that I have yet to experience a purchase done in the EU where they have asked me for my VAT number and not charged me anyway for the VAT. Well today JetBrains managed to change that and made my day even happier.

So TDC the Danish telecoms monopoly screwed me around and I’m without adsl for 10 days. I’ve just moved and they can’t get it set up at the switch until the installer comes back from vacation or some other annoying excuse.

3G to the rescue. I have Nokia 6630 phone, which I’ve connected to my Powerbook via Bluetooth. It works fairly well and I get reasonably fast speeds, although I’m not sure of exact speeds. I do loose connection occasionally, so it’s not that reliable.

Go to Ross Barkman’s site to download dial up scripts for 3G. Remember to do this before you desperately need it. Unpack the 3G scripts to “/Library/Modem Scripts”.

With 3 the Danish 3G provider I used data.3.dk as the telephone number and no account nor password.