Chuck D presents live at Laurie Auditorium at Trinity University
I’ve been enjoying my new Lenovo - once in a while the sound acts a bit flaky after repeated hibernates. Then what seemed like all of a sudden - the sound stopped working completely. I didn’t know what happened but it sucked not having sound….
After a lot of searching I found the likely culprit - my modem is switched off in BIOS. I turned it off when I turned on IrDA for my palm.
I should have known to just go to ThinkWiki
Problem with no sound on ThinkPad R60e - ThinkWiki
The ThinkPad BIOS has an option to disable the Modem. If you are tempted to do this (seems like a good idea if you never use the modem) don’t. If the modem is disabled sound does not work. [Applies to Ubuntu 6.06.1 and Edgy-Eft Knot2 on ThinkPad R60e] [sound does work in WinXP with modem disabled]
Live and learn…
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Someday someone will calculate the cost to the GDP of filling out all of these - what kind of X am I ? Surveys
Some how I missed that Word Press 2.1is out. Truth be told I’ve been worrying a lot less about the infrastructure of blogging - and worrying more about content - which is nice. (Spending most of my work day in Ruby hasn’t made it any easier to switch back to PHP for work on Postie).
Apparently , Postie isn’t compatible with the new version of WordPress. Looks like they added some new stuff on features page (like pseudo-cron and some image/thumbnail api features (it sounds like they’re actually doing stuff in the core that Postie had to handle on its own). Judging by the list this is going to be a lot more complicated to update compared to the switch from 1.5 -> 2.0.
I’m going to end up looking into it -because I’ll be updating my personal blog to 2.1 - and I like Postie so I’ll have to update it (plus if memory serves there are some code fragments submitted in).
I don’t know what the time line is for the update - but if I make progress I’ll announce it.
I went to update my source code on a project in my personal Subversion repository. The tool asked me to confirm the certificate for the server. This raised my alertness from my Monday morning slumber.
Was I being man in the middled?
Did I update something on my laptop invalidating the cert?
Did I forget to renew the domain again?
Turns out my self signed cert expired - after 3 years. Guess it is time to update the certs for my code repo. I found the following directions pretty helpful and concise.
The browser that ships with the TX pretty much sucks. I was really optimistic when I got it originally but it just couldn’t handle most of the sites I threw at it.
So this weekend I was really excited when I saw This (Opera Mini V2.0 Released) in my bloglines backlog.
I followed the instructions. It ended up being complicated because I had problems syncing the Java libs to the palm over IrDA. Now the browser runs and quickly crashes :(
Any one had any luck with this?
Update: It looks like a series of mistakes - the Javalib on the palm is showing as only half the file size it should be - and I accidentally installed the international version of Opera instead of the US on. Once I get syncing up again - I guess I need to take another run at it.
Update #2: Turns out you have to tweak the JavaVM on Palm TX.
Source:
These are accessed by going to Prefs - selecting IBM Java VM - on the Menu choose “Opera Mini”
"Use Double Buffering" checked (the default is unchecked)
"Use high resolution coordinates" checked (the default is unchecked)
"Set Memory Maximum:" 4 Mb (the default is 1 Mb, the maximum is 32 Mb) This didn't work for me - I had to keep it at 1Mb to do wifi
"Set Maximum Java Thread Stack Size:" 32Kb (the default is 2Kb, the maximum is 32Kb)
I managed to get the EULA and even managed to look at Slashdot - need more time to figure out if it is useful or not.
I’m a little bummed - I not sure what all other Linux people have switched to - but the palm support seems to have dropped off over time.
Lately I’ve been getting in trouble because now that I use Evolution as my main mail client - I actually get those Exchange meeting invitations. I end up accepting them. Only problem is that Palm sync hasn’t been working on my laptop. So I forget to put it in the Palm immediately and then I end up missing the meeting - not good!
I tried for a while to get my USB cable to sync my Palm TX under Edgy without any luck. (If you know how to do this - share the secret). At home I just sync via wireless. That works fine because my pc at home has a static ip. At work, I don’t. So tonight I ended up playing around with the third syncing option - IrDA.
I’ll be honest - this seemed like it was going to be impossible - that was until I found this blog post. It ended up giving me the details I needed to get everything running.
Now I just have to remember to sync and maybe you’ll actually see me in the next meeting you schedule with me.
Update: Not so fast. At some point I missed a step because I rebooted - I ended up terminated whatever process was really listening to my IrDA port….This is going to take some time after all.
Creating Passionate Users: The “Dumbness of Crowds”
an individual best achieves optimal stupidity on those rare occasions when one is both given substantial powers and insulated from the results of his or her actions.
by Jaron Lanier
Don’t optimize stupidity
Your results:
You are Spider-Man
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You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.  |
