I am getting my wisdom teeth taken out this reading week. They are partially impact and need to go. I am going to be having it done an an Oral Surgeon’s office using sedation. This makes me a little nervous as I have never been sedated before. Anyway, I snapped a shot of my smile 
I just found an application called Today and wanted to share it. It is unfortunately freeware, but it addresses a key complaint I have with the included groupware applications. iCal has a horible interface for adding tasks and Mail.app is such a strange place to have task lists, but no calendars. Today gives a view very similar to the “Outlook Today” interface in Outlook 2007 which I am accustomed to and love. I am currently using the trial version and will have to decide soon if I want to spend $15USD for this product. This is one thing I dislike about the Mac, there are tons of really neat applications for sale but each one costs enough that it isn’t worth it to buy each one. It is better than in the windows world, where there are tons of choices, all not doing what you want them to. It would be great if they could do an “App Store” for the mac platform for all these neat to have applications that are done by companies I don’t know if I trust with my credit card
I decided to install VMware 6.5 on my Fedora Rawhide (just about at Fedora 10) machine. The binary kernel modules that are included with VMware are of little use to me because I don’t run an ancient version of the linux kernel. I used the .bundle installer to install the program. I let it run through and when it finished i was left with a problem of not being able to start VMware or VMware player because of the required kernel modules. You are going to need dependencies to build a kernel module. In Fedora, I beleive this is yum groupinstall "Development Tools" and yum install kernel-devel.
To fix this I ran the following commands:cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ ~/vmware-modules – So as not to pollute the program’s installed versions of the module source.
For each tar file I untarred it and ran make in the resulting directory. This compiled all the modules i needed. After this, it is just a matter of copying the kernel modules to the appropriate place: sudo cp `find . -name "*.ko" | xargs` /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc, running depmod -a and sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart. After this, starting and running VMware now works. The downside to this is that you have to recompile the modules every time your kernel is updated, unless you write a script or turn those tar files into akmod rpm packages.
I don’t know if i like VMware more than VirtualBox or KVM, but if I do, I will consider writing some specfiles to automate this.
Also, if you are going to be running on a host with PulseAudio and want sound in your guests, vmwaredps-1.3.tar.gz is really helpful!
I hate the little arrow links that take you to the iTunes store. I could disable them in iTunes 7, but now apple seems to think I should choose between locking myself from the iTunes Music Store and seeting those anoying things. If it weren’t for the automatic cover downloader, i’d do that in a heartbeat, but it is really useful. I found a bunch of articles about how to do this on a Mac, but I am not running a mac. I ended up finding this article on how to remove the links and I also found one on the same site that gets rid of the genre column from the browser. Why on earth did Apple remove these settings? This is why over-simplifying UI can be a bad choice in my opinion.
In case the original article dissappears, here are the basic steps:
Open %AppData%\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml in a proper text editor, the article’s author recomends Notepad++ then right underneath. Note: the
<keyUser Preferences</key><dict>
add
<key>show-store-arrow-links</key> <data> AA== </data>
and/or
<key>show-genre-when-browsing</key><data>AA==</data>
I just realised that my battery is only holding 91% of its designed charge. This laptop is less than 9 months old and it came with a 12cell battery. I am the following values from acpitool -B
[jhford@dv2727ca mozilla]$ acpitool -B Battery #1 : present Remaining capacity : 8042 mAh, 100.0% Design capacity : 8800 mAh Last full capacity : 8042 mAh, 91.39% of design capacity Capacity loss : 8.614% Present rate : 0 mA Charging state : charged Battery type : rechargeable, LION Model number : Akita Serial number : 2945
I was just on the online chat with their agent was telling me that i have to have something called HP Total Care Advisor to be able to diagnose the problem to their satisfaction. The catch: You have to have the pre-installed version of vista!!! The same version that has a million trials and adware things, the vista that has a 400pixel tall yahoo search bar! Then they tell me that you can’t download a setup program for this thing!
This is insane! Why would you ever buy an HP Computer with ‘support’ like this?
Luckily, the agent was nice enough to send me a link to download this application
hp tca but i just hope that everything works and i don’t have any issues with this. What irks me is that this happens after i just purchased 3 hp laptops for me and family members!
Useful links:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00821536
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c00817650&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
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