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Archives for August 2008
Cannot hibernate Windows XP machine "Insuffienct Resources Exist to Complete the API"
For me, this was happening on a Lenovo T61 with 2GB of RAM… and for every time that I tried to hibernate.Microsoft Knowledge Base Article (KB909095) : The computer occasionally does not hibernate and you receive an “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API” error message in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in [...]
Lotus revived? On Linux? To compete with Microsoft?
IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiativeThis really made me do a double-take: IBM announced a new partnership with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer “Microsoft-free” personal computers with IBM’s Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software. Lotus… as in Lotus 1-2-3 vs. Quattro Pro… partnering with Canonical… as in Ubuntu Canonical. The mind reels. [...]
Massive local mashup of news, events, flickr, Craigslist, Twitter, etc…
Alas, my town (Louisville, KY) isn’t one of the city choice at the moment, but this could be the next evolution of web 2.0, social networking, mashups, however many buzzwords you can rattle off.Fwix | LocalThis is definitely something that I want to keep an eye on. There’s serious potential here.
ScribeFire
I’m testing out ScribeFire, after finding out that the blogger bar for Firefox does not work in Linux. So far, this has been a pretty exciting experience. The setup wizard works great with Blogger… all you need is your blog URL and Blogger login to set up.Will I ever use the Blogger.com interface for posting [...]
Some promising links on growing an internal wiki.
From the site, Grow Your Wiki. 21 Days of Wiki Adoption Top 10 Organizational Wiki Tips (and how to use them) Of particular note from my experience is the following article:Why wikis should replace email for collaboration the bigger issue here is that organizations have to look at how email is being used, and what [...]
Password protecting a website
Password protecting a website using .htaccess – this method pretty much requires shell access, but most web hosts have a web control panel interface to do this work. It should be noted that this isn’t the most fool-proof method of protecting your data, and a configuration error can inadvertently open up your directory to the [...]
symfony | Web PHP Framework
Symfony an Open-Source PHP Web Framework. This would be a nice tool to use to set up a web site in. Maybe I can finally rebuild my accompanists.org website.
Ubiquity for Mozilla web browser
Mozilla labs Ubiquity — based on the Javascript programming language — will allow users to type commands in an input box to launch a specific action, such as sending an e-mail. Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality
Dutch National Supercomputer Huygens Beats Human Go Professional
I never realized that Go was more complex than chess in terms of number of potential moves throughout the game. From the Wikipedia article on Go: The area of the board is very large (more than five times the size of a chess board). Throughout most of the game, the number of legal moves stays [...]
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