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Archive for October, 2007
links for 2007-10-30
11558 days
by Simon Scullion
in Links
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Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu derivative focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV system similar to Knoppmyth or Mythdora. Currently, it is a recognized as a community supported project by Canonical.
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So why does Microsoft think Facebook is worth $15bn? Here are 15 possible reasons….
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Mobile phone provider 3 has launched a new handset that will allow users to make free calls over the internet via telephony service Skype.
links for 2007-10-26
11562 days
by Simon Scullion
in Links
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I _really_ like KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machines) . It’s extremely simple to setup and use and lacks the intrusiveness of hypervisors like VMware and Xen. In this post, I’ll show you how to setup KVM on the latest Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”.
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Since the late 90s I’ve dabbled with Linux, but there have always been compelling reasons to return to, or stick with, Windows. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10
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Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.
Via http://www.collaborationmatters.com/blog/cmblog.nsf/dx/ted-talks -
Another one to check out, looks good, with some interesting features.
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A powerful semantic search engine that enables you to search your e-mail easily and effectively; plug-ins are available for Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes mail systems.
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The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.
Another Victory!
01563 days
by Simon Scullion
in Miscellaneous
Late in posting this, but we had another regatta weekend last Saturday and Sunday where we came out on top! This one was the “III Trofeo de la Hispanidad” organised by the ““.
We enjoyed two days of windy racing, 15-20 knots and waves, serious surfing with the kite downwind! The beats were a bit of a slog, and we were all hurting afterwards! But it was great!
The final blast home on Sunday was unforgettable, the fastest we’ve been in one of these. So fast we were dead downwind and still couldn’t keep the kite full all the time, the apparent wind went so far forward so quickly as we accelerated! Awesome!
So, we managed to get results of 2, 2, 1, 2 to clean up with 5 points after a discard.
I will try and find some photos, as there were a couple of people out spectating with cameras.
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Some minor CSS changes
41563 days
by Simon Scullion
in Blog
Tweaked the fonts a little, as I always thought they were a little small and therefore difficult to read.
Inspired after reading on .
What do you think? Is it better? Any other suggestions for tweaks?
No promises mind, I don’t have as much time as I’d like to play with this, real life gets in the way!
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links for 2007-10-25
01563 days
by Simon Scullion
in Links
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Microsoft has paid $240m for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn.
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Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information.
To be checked out. Thx Danilo!
links for 2007-10-23
11565 days
by Simon Scullion
in Links
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FONTSMACK is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts.
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Internet law professor Michael Geist examines how musicians are taking the issue of copy controls into their own hands.
SwiftFile 4.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0
21566 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
I found over at
There are people who love mail folders and people who hate them.
Nowadays using folders is the “old” way to organize e-mail messages: put this memo here, that one there, and so on. Right, as in real life…
I’m trying to love Notes mail folders, and I must say that one handy tool is helping me a lot: its name is SwiftFile!
So what does SwiftFile do? Well, as Cristian goes on to explain:
SwiftFile is very handy because it “learns” how to manage you Inbox messages and then, for any open memo, it suggests which folders are likely to be chosen by the user, just showing folders name on top of the memo. Then the user make just one click on a folder name to move the memo inside that folder! Easy and fast!
In more formal speak, according to the readme:
SwiftFile is an intelligent assistant for Lotus Notes that helps users organize their e-mail into folders. SwiftFile uses a text classifier to learn each user’s mail-filing habits. SwiftFile uses the model it learns to predict the three folders into which the user is most likely to place each incoming message. The predictions are presented to the user as three shortcut buttons that allow the user to quickly file each message into one of the predicted folders. When one of SwiftFile’s predictions is correct, the effort required to file a message is reduced to a single button click.
SwiftFile 4.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0, part number C1436EN can be downloaded from Passport Advantage. I have it installed and running fine in Notes 7.
A nice find, gracias Cristian!
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