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I used an old Blackberry 5820 for a while, I was working on a project that took advantage of it’s Java environment, GPRS connectivity & a serial port to verify single use barcodes for event promotion, I was quite taken with the email on the go, it’s much slicker that IMAP/POP3 on your Phone over WAP or a crap email tool on the phone (I’ve had several Sone Ericssons, T68i, T610 & T630, they have a mail tool which is useable, but not very.

Hotplugging USB Storage devices. http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=126

In my day job, my company does a lot of work with BEA WebLogic & Ultimus, both of which have BPM stuff, both of which are very resrouce intensive (memory, cpu, time, money), is there an alternative? http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/members/research_areas/bpm/projects/yawl/ http://xflow.sourceforge.net/

My sister works with autistic children, she is a clinician for CEATNI, Centre for Early Autism Treatment, there website has just gone live here: www.ceatni.net The work Kirsty does is amazing, I really don’t know how she does it, it’s beyond me. Much respect K. Love Si.

this is being posted from my palm, now I have no excuses for not blogging! [Posted with hblogger 2.0 http://www.normsoft.com/hblogger/]

…if I ever get my A4 back on the road, I’ve just seen how I can redo the dash Article here You see I have an in-dash touchscreen, a DWW-7VGT from Digital World Wide, of course, they now have a motorized version..

http://tzilla.is-a-geek.com/articles/egalax/

My last major requirement was decent hibernate & resume, the standard suspend to disk in 2.6.8/10 didn’t cut it, so I started on patching the kernel with stuff from suspend2.net, but it wouldn’t patch a debian’ised kernel source, or even any kernel source I tried to pull from kernel.org, then I remembered a post on debian-laptop about a some debian’ised suspend2 patches, some hunting through my inbox and I found it:

So I’ve had Debian Unstable on the laptop for a week or two now and I think I’ve finished all the config/migrate work. I’ve got the wireless card working (using ipw2100 & waproamd, I tried wpasupplicant, but I only need WEP and WEP is broken for wpasuplicant & ipw2100’s), gprs over bluetooth and the the built-in modem (using sl-modem-daemon & sl-modem-source). I haven’t got suspend working at all, for disk or memory.

My main laptop died the other day, I’ve had enough. It didn’t die hardware wise, a single file in the Windows XP Pro install got damaged & that was it. The machine was dodo like. After some checks with the Recovery Console and various F8 options (like don’t reboot on a crash so that I can see the error!) I discovered that the software hive from the registry was damaged, there were a couple of MSDN/TechNet notes on how to recover from this, including using the Recovery console to remove the existing hives & replace them with some backups from the original install, you can see more here.