So I couldn’t just drop the OAuth library into the plugins directory because I didn’t have sudo rights there, so I wgot and zipped it and uploaded it as a plugin via the web interface and changed the include to point there. And now the end of the bifurcation era may be in sight. Not…
Read More slightly less lazywebSo OpenSUSE11.4 was out this week. As the Jedi said here: gah! suse is never totally easy Indeed. I thought I’d do an online upgrade, so I scheduled this to happen when I was in the office and therefore had a fast Internet link available. I applied all the remaining 11.3 updates, configured the three…
Read More Specified technical incidentThe version of Nokia’s Share Online application that shipped with my E71 has a problem. I was trying to upload photos from Berlin over O2 Germany’s data network to my Flickr account, and it unexpectedly returned an authentication error; I looked at “your recent photos and videos”, and got photos belonging to Flickr user mrspin,…
Read More These are not my photos. I don’t know where you got themWhining about Firefox crashes. Here’s one day last week: Start 09301515 – 5 groups, 111 tabs. Pressed page down key; CRASH. Resume successful.1538 – Hang. RAM usage peaks at 66%, CPU 1 goes to 100%1541 – Running, very slowly. Resource utilisation still very high1542 – Hang1550 – Cache cleared, normal ops resumed1813 – Hang. RAM…
Read More firefoxMy heart sank when I saw these words: Firefox user interface guru. And yes, he’s had an idea. A suggestion: rather than a fancy new UI, how about having a crack at stability? FF 3, and the later FF 2s, were and are crashy, hangy, and inconsistent. It regularly (daily) gets its knickers in a…
Read More those dangerous four words: “I’ve had an idea”Need to get contacts out of a Nokia phone and into something else? There are various standard things – the “switch mode” on the newer ones may help. But the PC Suite client (which still only seems to exist for Windows) doesn’t let you export data from the phone as anything but a .nbu (Nokia…
Read More getting contacts from an .nbu fileJames Wimberley has a good post regarding changing the electricity grid to support dynamic demand-response, where things like Dutch cold-stores or your fridge over-cool when electricity is plentiful and cut out when the grid is under strain. It’s hugely important in adapting the electrical system to use stuff like gigawatt-size wind farms; essentially, it’s a…
Read More premature optimisation, the root of all sinsOh yes, gleeful leftie hacker tournament after the BNP did a 0.16 megarecord datafart. My effort contains absolutely no personally-identifying data; it’s made with this guy’s count by region and population data from National Statistics, to show the number of BNP activists per 100 citizens in each UK region. People kept asking for that kind…
Read More don’t compromise, visualiseTo the developers of Mozilla Ubiquity: what are you thinking? The whole idea is that you interact with Web things through a command line in the browser that is close to natural language; it’s all a bit like this post about the world’s favourite command line. But at the moment it’s not particularly useful for…
Read More |An unremarked-on aspect of the 1.5% interest rate cut last week. Namely, are we already living in a near-real time planned economy, as Stafford Beer foresaw? It sounds like I must be joking. But how else are we to interpret Sir Terry Leahy’s trip to see the Bank of England and the Treasury? Tesco boasts…
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