Wavelinker bluetooth dongle

The manager software that comes with this dongle is aweful [XTNDConnect], so I did a search and came up with this

The hardware is eaactly the same as the Belkin F8T001 USB dongle.

On the belkin.com site. Go to drivers , bluetooth and select F8T001 drivers

Watch what you say....

Interesting articles http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html and follow links from it (from slashdot..)

Quotes:

"If you could travel back in a time machine, one thing would be true no matter where you went: you'd have to watch what you said."

"Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot."

"A lot of the questions people get hot about are actually quite complicated. There is no prize for getting the answer quickly."

Paul Graham


Follow-up article on slashdot:

I don't know what this counts as, but here's my shot, it's something I've been considering for a while.

Nothing we do actually matters. At firs this may not sound shocking, especially to those of you who are, like me, unreligious. Think about it though - I could destroy the planet, erase every life here and every achievement that humanity has ever made, yet it would not cause anything that mattered to happen. Maybe other planets would be affected, maybe the solar system would fall apart, so, who cares? I may get many replies saying 'All life matters' or 'It matters if the solar system is destroyed' but I challenge any of you to back that up factually.
MoonBuggy

You are too simple to understand your place in the bigger picture

On children and swearing

Terrorism is less of a threat than bad drivers [RayBender]

Personal Media Centre Wishlist

Wouldn't it be nice to have on appliance? Just the one. No more TiVo / video / DVD player cluttered below the tv, just one slim silent case. There are a few projects out there that do this, for example
http://www.mythtv.org

I have a few more requirements for them, lets just integrate everything while we are at it. Why not.

Physical Architecture

• Backend server(s) -capture TV and
  storage.
  
• Small STB to replace all existing units (video/DVD/TiVo)
  
  
  
  • One per TV
    
  
  
  
  

Features

• TV
  
  
  
  • TiVo like
    
  • Program guide with
    overlay
    
  • Video editing (crop/join)
    
  • Storage folders
    
  • Users
    
  • Multi channel (add on tuners)
  
  
• Video
  
  
  
  • DVD Rip
    
  • Duke box functionality
    
  • Automatic film information
    
  • Camcorder integration
  
  
• Music
  
  
  
  • Fully configurable mp3 (etc) server
    
  • Use as aux in to Hi-fi with TV off
  
  
• Web
  
  
  
  • Context sensitive google searches
    
    
    
    • Music/film advertisement??
    
    
  • General browsing capability
    
    
    
    • Banking etc..
  
  
• Email
  
  
  
  • Email / news reader
    
  • Mail Notification overlay
    
    
    
    • Rule based
  
  
• Phone
  
  
  
  • Caller ID overlay
  
  
• Images
  
  
  
  • jpg photo server
    
  • Digital camera integration
  
  
• games
  
  
  
  • ???
  
  
• Security




• Integrated home security
  
• Alarm status / visualization
  
• Event history
  
• Security camera view




• Overlay on doorbell press?


• General




• Automatic rip - mp3/divx etc




• just pop the cd/dvd into the drive, and it will appear
  in the menu

Out of Sight

Cool film, doesn't stand watching loads of times though - the best death in a film, bar none - the fat guy trips on the stairs - excellent.

Back to work tomorrow, wonder what the new year has in store? .....


[1998 George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez ]

Cast Away

What an aweful film. Man gets shipwrecked, man gets rescued. The end. Yes, I know there is some sub-story in there about his true love, and moral issues round why he can't have her in the end, but it's not exactly thought provoking.

An absolute waste of 2 hours of my life. Sorry. Don't get me started on talking to a ball.

[2000 staring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt]

High Fidelity

Hmmm, this is a strange one. I don't think I would recommend it, but it's better than nothing. Nice dialog at the start about music:

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or, was I miserable because I listened to pop music? -Rob Gordon (High Fidelity)

Different kind of film, but just didn't do enough for me.


[High Fidelity (2000) Stephen Frears, John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins, Chris Rehmann ]

redhat rpm upgrade

Upgrading redhat 6.2 to 9.2 I hit the problem of rpm 3->4
upgrade. I got failed dependancies on trying to upgrade,
some said version was too high, some said too low.
There was a database upgrade from db1 to db3, which
seems to have caused the problem with the upgrade.

After performing the rpm upgrade the upgrade function on the CD
should word to upgrade from 6.2 -> 7/8/9

The following instructions should work for the upgrade:

---

##get the files...

ncftp ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386/

get rpm*

get db3-*

get popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm



#exit ftp





##rebuild the database, to ensure sanity before we start

rpm --rebuilddb

rpm -Uvh db3-*

rpm -Uvh popt*

rpm -Uvh rpm*

##check reported version - should read 4.0.2

rpm --version

##now rebuild the database - this is where it changes from db1->db3

rpm --rebuilddb

##f

---

Files and versions which I picked up:

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms      1073382 Nov  4 15:23 db3-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms      5368423 Nov  4 15:23 db3-devel-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms       749569 Nov  4 15:23 db3-utils-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms        55222 Nov  4 15:23 popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms      1283762 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms        63876 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-build-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms       313646 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-devel-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms        32303 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-python-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

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links:

http://rpm.redhat.com/hintskinks/rpmv3tv4/
[cache]


http://www.rpm.org/