Monthly Archives: April 2009


50 megs of pure speed

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 […]


Transfixed by the solenoid

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 […]


Bumptop release getting closer !!

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 […]


Senturion Firmware Updated to Version 2.20

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 […]


Bumptop loves me !

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 […]


Lotus C Api – new version released – finally ….

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 […]