DELL mini 9

Second complete reinstall now.
Looks like disabling Backport upgrades has fixed the problem.

cloud on ubuntu 1

Moving into the cloud with ubuntu one beta.
Sign up was easy.
2gb free and 10USD per month for 10gbA
Screen shot below.

piracy and Hollywood

gcaldaeman setup

got the beast going again.
1 . removed whole GCALdaemon folder from ../sbin and reinstalled
NOTE
Must /GCAL must be installed in /usr/local/sbin
http://localhost:9090/calendar/ical/prince%40linleycaetan.com/private/basic.ics

labeling partitions

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=238360

gcaldaeman setup

got the beast going again.
1 . removed whole GCALdaemon folder from ../sbin and reinstalled
NOTE
Must /GCAL must be installed in
http://localhost:9090/calendar/ical/prince%40linleycaetan.com/private/basic.ics

new dell 910 sdd netbook remix

The New Dell net book works well.
just some problems getting netbook remix working in in gnome "classic" mode.

3120 more sync

lightning working well via gcaldaemon after trashing .moziila-thunderbird folder.

syncing my nokia 3120 to gmail

your phone.

Posted by Joris Soeurt on April 12, 2009

This
feature isn’t really advertised by Google, but they do support
synchronization of your gmail contacts to your phone through syncml.

Use the following settings on your phone:

• SyncML server: https://m.google.com/syncml (you’ll get a 404 error when visiting this site by normal browser, this is normal!)
• Contacts database: contacts
• Username: username or username@domain.com if you use gmail for domains.

funded vs unfunded?

Moving to Funded Pension Schemes

Moving to Funded Pension Schemes: Will the Public Tolerate the Costs of Transition and the Risks of the Capital Markets?

Many proponents of pensions reform argue that by switching from unfunded pay-as-you-go state schemes to a fully funded scheme that takes advantage of the high return on assets such as equities, the solvency of the state scheme could be restored at little or no financial burden to current taxpayers. Speaking at a CEPR/Royal Economic Society public discussion meeting on Thursday 3 February, Professor David Miles of Imperial College, London, and CEPR showed that this is mistaken for two reasons:

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More Pirate bay

This decision to imprison the pirate bay 3 is distrurbing.
1 year in prison for a crime that does not involve violence is  disproportionate.
The appeal will be very interseting indeed.
Copyright is a very recent invention that has outlived it's usefulness.

bluetooth internet access

installed bluman to replace gnome-bleutooth.
Much more streamlined.
Turn off wireless.
now enable auto ethernet in bluetooth applet

Ubuntu software updates

Frustrations with Acrobat reader -(medibuntu). synaptic giving useless error "...ttp://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Packages ... failed to install

/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', ..." Luckily a google search rooted out a suggestion. Use the "remove --purge" option for apt-get then re-install the beast.
That could be a solution for other misbehaving applications.

Offline blog entries

Wondering what happens with offline entries.
I am writing this in firefox offline mode.

Micro-rant

Just coined a new term,
micro-rant: a rant that is small random
To do: twitter addon for firefox
Private Blog
Ongoing debates
Firefox vs Opera vs Chromium
Too early to tell.

Pi Day

Book in anotherday on the 22 of July

Mark Ablett to take Juniper higher | Australian IT

Mark Ablett to take Juniper higher | Australian IT

JUNIPER Networks has appointed Mark Ablett as Australian enterprise sales director.

Based in Melbourne, Ablett will lead Juniper's enterprise strategy and manage its direct touch sales force to lift sales in enterprise verticals and the government and academic sectors.

computershare.

LinkedIn: Ross Ingleton

Pirate Bay "spectrial" breaking the butterfly upon the wheel

Well the Spectrial is over and the judge has retired to mull over the verdict.
(why do judges need days to do this, sureley they have been weighing the evidence and legal arguments during the trial).

scribe fire errors

nasty errors now occuring