Monthly Archives: April 2009

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50 megs of pure speed

This entry was posted in Internet Must Have Review and tagged Virgin Media on April 30, 2009 by HAL

Finally the Virgin promise comes true. Due to being in one of the areas that Virgin have provided 50MB cable to I had my visit from the engineer to deliver the funky new cable model and wireless router and usb wireless card that make up the package. After some initial diffs getting the new modem […]

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End of an era – retiring TC1100

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Tips and tagged TC1100 Touchsmart TX2 on April 28, 2009 by HAL

After many years of faithful service – my HP TC1100 tablet has become unstable to the point where I can no longer rely on it when out with clients and travelling. Despite reinstallation and reconfiguration the machine seems to have a hardware issue which causes it to hang intermittently but regularly. The time had come […]

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Transfixed by the solenoid

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Xerox Phaser 860n on April 23, 2009 by HAL

Recently after replacing the lamps in my venerable Phaser 860 I had a paper jam issue. The page would print correctly but would stop just before falling into the paper output tray on top of the printer. Cleaning the rollers just inside the front panel where they feed the paper out of the printer had […]

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Bumptop release getting closer !!

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Bumptop on April 23, 2009 by HAL

Two small updates within a week and a version 1 designation show that the release to the general public of Bumptop is getting closer. I noticed also by accident that you can create yellow sticky notes on the bumptop desktop by creating txt files on the real desktop with the text on the first line […]

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Senturion Firmware Updated to Version 2.20

This entry was posted in Monitoring Tips and tagged Senturion on April 9, 2009 by HAL

Its been a while since I mentioned the latest updates for the Senturion Climate monitor but the last batch added some interesting items 03/12/09: Version 2.20 – Import/Export Ability to save and load configuration settings You can now export the log to .csv file Probe history can be exported to .csv file Test Email button […]

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Bumptop loves me !

This entry was posted in Must Have Software and tagged Bumptop on April 6, 2009 by HAL

After my recent bumptop expiry issue here I wasn’t expecting to be writing again so soon about Bumptop – the funky physics based desktop environment but when I looked at my machine this morning I got a hint that things are under way for the “launch” of the application. The basic detail is that there […]

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Lotus C Api – new version released – finally ….

This entry was posted in Interesting Software and tagged Domino Lotus on April 2, 2009 by HAL

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/downloads/toolkits.html#notesdomino is where you will find version 8 of the C api which is described as “A toolkit that lets you control Domino components using Domino’s C API”. It been so long since the last version was released that I’ve almost forgotten the last time I used it to extend an application. Time to dust […]

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This version of Bumptop Beta has expired :(

This entry was posted in Interesting Software and tagged Bumptop on April 2, 2009 by HAL

I noted this message recently and thought perhaps the beta program had completed. However it seems that a bug in the updater from one of the beta release caused this premature announcement. Logging in to the Bumtop download site and entering the original invite code was enough to get the latest beta (20) and to […]

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