Mid January brought a small amount of coverage in IT media of widespread issues with Seagate’s SATA hard drives, including Barracuda 7200.11 drives. These are a popular drive series as they offer good performance, low price and a 5 year warranty.
There has been a fairly low level background dissatisfaction with these drives over the past few months, which finally came to a head in January 2009. People had been reporting failure of their drives for no apparent reason – and no warning – after they had been in use for only a few months; the drives would not be visible to the BIOS at boot.
In January, Seagate demonstrated how to turn every hard drive manufacturer’s nightmare into a very public PR disaster. To their credit, they did eventually resolve the problem, but the manner in which they did it was instructive – and depending on your involvement with the hardware, either amusing or extremely frustrating.
This is best viewed in HD at Vimeo – start the video, then click on the HD button that is displayed inside the player; then ensure that HD is “on”, Scaling is “off”, and view the video fullscreen.
Real Temp is a lightweight computer software program for the Windows operating system that has been designed to provide the user with information about the temperature of Intel cpus. The software program supports Intel single Core, dual Core and quad Core processors and will display the processor temperature in real time in the application interface. It will also display the cpu temperatures in the Windows system tray after minimizing the program. Real Temp displays various information about the cpu. The information are not limited to the cpu temperatures but also the model of the cpu, clock speeds and cpu load.
Did you ever want to try wildlife shots, but the animals were scared by your presence? Did you ever want to do self portraits, but your IR remote couldn’t do the job? Real wireless remotes can help you, but they are an expensive piece of equipment. In this tutorial you will learn how to modify a wireless doorbell, that you can get in any home depot store or garage sale, to make your Canon EOS DSLR focus and release the shutter from a great distance.
Fotografix An image editor that can be used for image enhancement and graphic design. Download Version 1.0 Beta 3 (347 KB) Enhance photos Quickly correct and enhance photos and other images. Compose rich artwork Use layers and other advanced features to digitally compose art. Automate frequent tasks Make use of scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
HDHomeRun™ Networked Digital TV Tuner ¶ One Box, Two Digital Tuners, Anywhere on Your Network ¶ * Watch TV from any computer on your network. * Record full 1080i broadcast resolution. * Pause, rewind, fast-forward live TV. * Schedule and record all your favorite TV shows. * Expand with multiple HDHomeRun devices. TV sources ¶ * For use in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand: o DVB-T over-the-air digital TV.
Moovida – the free open source media player for Windows and Linux Moovida offers you more. By bringing together all your movies, TV shows, tunes and photos in one simple innovative interface. More than that, Moovida brings you the best of internet video, music and images to play on your HDTV, laptop or PC. More, because Moovida is open source1 everybody can get involved… check the Participate section above.
The file presents US, Japan and EU drafts of the controversial international copyright and patent trade agreement, ACTA ("Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement"). The documents were obtained by Wikileaks staff.
The material is significant, both for those countries involved in the negotiations and those who have been excluded from them, such as China, Russia and the nearly all of the developing world.
Each entity's diplomatic comments can be recognized by:
* US – United States
* J – Japan
* EU – European Union
* CAN – Canada
* AUS – Australia
* MX – Mexico
* SG – Singapore
Additional information can be found by searching Wikileaks for "ACTA".
Readers who are interested in the subject may like to assist readability by "typing up" parts of the file, which has been photographed, and placing the results on the discussion page.
JAPAN – U.S. JOINT PROPOSAL This Document Contains Foreign Government Information to be treated as U.S. CONFIDENTIAL MODIFIED HANDLING AUTHORIZED* JAPAN-US JOINT PROPOSAL Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement EU proposalsDiscussion Draft: 7 July 2008May 20, 2008 Derived From: Classification Guidance dated February 8, 2008 Reason: 1.4(b) Declassify on: February 9, 2018 * This document must be protected from unauthorized disclosure, but may be mailed or transmitted over unclassified e-mail or fax, discussed over unsecured phone lines, and stored on unclassified computer systems. It must be stored in a locked or secured building, room, or cabinet. JAPAN – U.S. JOINT PROPOSAL This Document Contains Foreign Government Information to be treated as U.S. CONFIDENTIAL MODIFIED HANDLING AUTHORIZED*
The file presents US, Japan and EU drafts of the controversial international copyright and patent trade agreement, ACTA ("Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement"). The documents were obtained by Wikileaks staff. The material is significant, both for those countries involved in the negotiations and those who have been excluded from them, such as China, Russia and the nearly all of the developing world. Each entity's diplomatic comments can be recognized by: * US – United States * J – Japan * EU – European Union * CAN – Canada * AUS – Australia * MX – Mexico * SG – Singapore Additional information can be found by searching Wikileaks for "ACTA". Readers who are interested in the subject may like to assist readability by "typing up" parts of the file, which has been photographed, and placing the results on the discussion page.
May 15, 2009: Berlin. A speech that remixes a bit of David Post's fantastic book, In Search of Jefferson's Moose, given at an event hosted by the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation.
# Running Ubuntu 9.04 with Avant window navigator, Compiz, and Conky. # Custom dock icons based off of ecqlipse2.png, I colored them and added drop shadows. # Wallpaper: Area04 (slightly modified, got rid of text and made it widescreen) # System Icons: Smokikon v0.9 # Now for the Conky configurations: I'm running five separate instances of Conky to achieve this desktop. The to-do list merely displays a text file, but I wrote a shell script to easily add and remove tasks from the file. Events is pulling data from Google Calendar. Everything else is pretty self explanatory.
Linux often gets criticized by the ease-of-use crowd for making its users occasionally edit a text file to get something working. In the case of the nimble, endlessly extensible desktop monitor Conky, though, a text file is a great thing. You can changed the format, color, font, and output of what Conky shows you any way you want, and using some freely available tools, have Conky monitor your email, Google Calendar, local weather, music, and even keep tabs on your text-based to-do list. If you were intrigued by how much love Conky gets from our Linux users, read on to learn how to set up your own uber-useful, lightweight embedded monitor.
For users of bluetooth serial devices such as the HOLUX M-1000, there simply is no "GUI" way to get it connected as far as I can see. I have found, instead, that I need to resort to the command line to get things working… and that they work "old school" style — reliably and effectively. You get things going as follows:
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$ hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:1B:C1:03:21:87 HOLUX_M-1000
To use the software in Linux, you must configure WINE.
1. Start WINE Configurator
2. In WINE Configurator, click Add Application
3. Browse to the eztour software (drive_c\Program Files\HOLUX exTour\DL\ezTour_DL.exe) and click Open
4. ezTour_DL.exe should appear as an application in WINE Configurator
4.5 Select the ezTour_DL.exe application in WINE Configurator
5. Select Windows Version = Windows XP
6. Select the ‘Libraries’ tab in WINE Configurator
7. Click the ‘New override for library’ drop-down and choose dwmapi
8. Click Add
9. Click Edit
10. Change to Native (Windows)
11. Click OK
The software should now work in WINE!. I have not yet worked out how to get Google Maps to appear, but you can export the trails and logs to a .kmz file to view in Google Earth.
PhotoME is a powerful tool to show and edit the meta data of image files. Thanks to the well organised layout and intuitive handling, it's possible to analyse and modify Exif and IPTC-NAA data as well as analyse ICC profiles – and it's completely FREE!
CodySafe is a free software tool that turns any portable drive into a computer-on-stick which enables you to launch and manage your favorite application and folders easily from a USB drive. This application allows you to easily manage you documents, multimedia files and pictures on your removable media and also launch programs quickly and easily. The interface of CodySafe is very impressive looks similar to the Windows Vista start menu.
