I got an iPhone for my birthday!
It’s a very sexy piece of kit; features I especially like are:
I just had a BSoD on my laptop running Vista. It rebooted, and when I selected the option for it to tell me why. It ‘fessed up to a BlueScreen crash. I took the recommended solution to install a service pack, selected all available updates and let it reboot - and now my display driver won’t load so I get 1024×768 instead of 1280×800!
Following a bit more exploration, it seems the ATI PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver grabbed some resources that the Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family Driver wanted. I rolled back the ATI driver, and now my display works again.
PS. The exercise did something nasty to the Aero Glass theme, but I’m not all that bothered about that.
PPS. I subsequently got a ‘Superfetch has stopped working’ error. Jeez, Vista is a pile of …
I’ve suffered with DSL modem stability & routing failures for almost 2 months, but think I may have the problem resolved at last. After I was upgraded to a static IP (as result of Be* repositioning their product range) my connection is rock-solid again.
I can only see one logical reason for this: when I was on a dynamic IP profile, the DHCP servers on Be*’s network had a MAC address clash and ignored duplicate requests - causing the router not to have an IP on its external WAN interface.
I’m very pleased to find Google have added IMAP support to Gmail and their hosted email services. At long last I can process my email whilst offline, and keep Gmail in sync manually. And it’s all still free!
Read Google’s FAQ on IMAP.
I spotted on Ubuntu’s news-section that Dell finally have commenced shipping products (1 desktop, 1 notebook) with Ubuntu. Available in UK, Germany and France. Excellent!
After having tried my luck with 2 Thompson SpeedTouch routers (one being the Be* supplied WL780 and the other a reflashed BT HomeHub) I gave in and bought a Netgear DG834Gv3.
The relevant settings for using with Be*:
If you have a SIM from Orangeclick.ch you may run into a problem I recently experienced. The Mobile Internet option (cost: CHF5 pcm for up to 2MB, CHF2.50 per subsequent 2MB) requires the APN to be set to ‘click‘; which by default is set to ‘internet‘.
David just sent me this lovely performance using a Theremin. If you are interested in modern electronic instruments, you should take a look.
The Theremin was the inspiration to Robert Moog; father of the Moog synthesizers, and to Jean-Michel Jarre, who was the leading iconic electronic music composer of my youth.
Stumbled across this Google talk, nicely illustrating the additional information that can be obtained about data if you design your platforms in a way that engages the users to enjoy a challenge. A virtual hat tip to Luis von Ahn.