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Archive for May, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-10
01365 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- just had to hard reset my Blackberry, the input language somehow changed to Arabic and I couldn’t enter the device password, nightmare!
- @Bigoceans Not that you’re having a good time in the Caribe!! I hope you got some pics! As I turn even greener with envy….
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links for 2008-05-09
01366 days
by Simon Scullion
in Links
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“Quotably” – Follow the conversation.
Stunningly simple. Found via Monkchips, thanks you sir! -
interesting list, need to come back to!
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-09
01366 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- @dominiccampbell dejavu! Same me coming back over the pond from PHL. Fuel leak said the captain! In the end changed planes and we left +5hrs
- lots of conversations going on this morning, will need to focus to get some boring admin out of the way today, but hey, its Friday!
- Struggling to resist the big bag of Reese’s I brought back from the US, trying to get rid with colleagues, honest!
- @CoreyDavis I hope she gets well soon, Ear infections are terrible for the little ones, theres so little you can do to help them
- @monkchips nope, works for me, just missing the hardware today to go @chinposin!
- @kavit27 hey that caught your attention!
I’ll see if I can save you a couple! - @olufsphere ROFL! Great stuff for a Friday!
- really must face up to doing my expenses :-/
- @ssheppard careful tweeting that! I mentioned it looked like I’d make the park with my daughter yesterday, and we got washed out!
- @twhirl had borked with a blacked out post from @Ross ath the top, wierd! restart fixed things
- @kellypuffs where are you!? That sounds excessive even for a Friday afternoon in Spain!
- @vowe here in the North it seems to have been raining forever, we want to see some sun!!
- Finally, expenses submitted and approved, just hope I get it paid now!
- beer o’clock, time to go! Got the inlaws staying this weekend so should be a good one!
- installing Adobe AIR on Ubuntu via this helpful post
- now tweeting from @twhirl on Ubuntu!! That was easy! Looks exactly like the Windows version!
- installed the photodropper wp plugin on my blog
- starting to get a feel for the new features in FF3B5, the more I use, the more I like
- continuing with the task of bring order to the chaos that is my photo collection. Thank god F-Spot makes it so much easier!
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kacpi_notify you bad boy!
21367 days
by Simon Scullion
in Ubuntu
My Ubuntu PC at home occasionally has suffered with a rather annoying issue, whether the CPU runs at pretty much 100%, and the temperature to rise causing the BIOS to make an awful and incessant beeping sound!
Well tonight it just got too much for me, and I decided it was time to look into the cause.
A quick google search had me run “top” from a command line, which showed that a process by the name of “kacpi_notify” was consuming all the available CPU! So another search lead me to on the fantastic , with a possible solution.
So just for the record, I applied the following changes:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then modified the line:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-386 root=UUID=d17c8a59-107b-4454-9369-f24aaa7776f0 ro quiet splash
to
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-386 root=UUID=d17c8a59-107b-4454-9369-f24aaa7776f0 ro acpi=off apm=off quiet splash
Lets hope that does the trick!
Video calling on Ubuntu
01367 days
by Simon Scullion
in Linux
has been back to the UK from the states.
since the start of this year I have been having lots of problems with video calling with Skype back to the UK, it worked fine in the USA but every time I tried back to the UK they would not see my video.
Sounds like he has found an alternative though, with . I’d never heard of them, so it caught my interest and I headed over to their site. Yup, you guessed it, Windows and Mac only.
Now I have to admit this is an area I haven’t tackled yet. I use on , and I know the latest version of Skype for Linux has the video call features, but I haven’t got it working.
Dale, thanks for reminding me I need to look into this, and if anyone out there has any tips on getting Skype video calls to work on Ubuntu, please chip in!
Whitepaper – Performance basics for IBM Lotus Notes developers
01367 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
This should be a must read for all Lotus developers, even those of us who consider ourselves experienced.
There are so many badly designed and developed Notes applications out there, giving the technology – and by implication also us as developers – a bad name, that sometimes I think it wise that we revise even the most basic concepts from a best practice perspective.
This white paper addresses the most important and most serious factors affecting IBM® Lotus® Notes® and Domino® application performance. It is intended for developers of Notes client applications, to help them maximize performance by identifying problem areas and by offering solutions.
In this article:
- Introduction
- General principles
- Database-level performance considerations
- Formula performance
- Form design
- Views
- Code
- Testing
- Use Profile documents
- Conclusion
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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-08
01367 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- morning all, damp here this AM, off to find coffee, back in a bit!
- Blackberry support is in my bad books, responding with links rather than looking into my download problem
- @chieftech yummy! just in time to have with my coffee! Yes, I missed breakfast this morning!
- installing the Blackberry desktop manager, need to restart windows, grrr
- I have a flickering white desktop! the only app I can actually see is @twhirl! very wierd! what is that telling me!?
- even a hibernate and resume didn’t fix it, looks like I’m going to have to pull the plug, as I can’t shutdown!
- @GrahamChastney good question, can I put it down curiosity and being a blackberry newbie!?
- @GrahamChastney LOL! BTW great post on your use of the BB, I will be looking into your recommendations, thx
- my gmail has its knickers in a twist again in Flock, its in some sort of loop while loading :-/
- just off the first team call for my new assignment, with all the folk I was in the US with last week. Was good to be in touch again!
- @MissGoogle that and getting dressed in the dark, there is no other explanation!
- @UnSleep alguna razon por la preferencia de xubuntu sobre ubuntu?
- time for some lunch, on my own as SWMBO just called to say she’s running late and can’t make it. Does that mean I’ve been stood up!?
- @chessasilva thx for the warning, looks like I’ll stay away for now then!
- built-in GPS + google maps on the BB 8820 is very cool!
- @monkchips do you have a link? I’m not seeing it
- off to pick up little’un from nursery, looks like it’ll be nice enough for a stint in the park, nice!
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