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Bluetooth (Time) Sync

One of the annoy­ing things about mov­ing to the 64-bit Win­dows 7 is that Palm decided not to sup­port USB syn­chron­iz­a­tion. Since my phone/PDA is a Treo 680, that’s a nuis­ance. In the­ory, I can sync via bluetooth. In prac­tice, it’s not as easy as it used to be. First off, I had to get a […]

2010 01 27 Comments (2)

Moving to Windows 7 — Part Two

After the pre­vi­ous set of Win­dows 7 adven­tures, I dis­covered that the box I bought doesn’t sup­port hardware-assisted vir­tu­al­isa­tion, which is needed for the Vir­tual XP mode. Option 2 for the scan­ner: try out a sep­ar­ate applic­a­tion called VueS­can, which claims to sup­port a large num­ber of scan­ners. Except for, this pro­gram needs the Canon […]

2010 01 25 Comments (0)

Memories of Sun

The EU has approved, the Sun/Oracle deal all but done, wait­ing for China and Rus­sia. James Gosling’s post shows the poignant side. How long, I won­der, will the blogs.sun.com web­site still be avail­able? How long to give space to memor­ies and remind­ers? Some of my own memor­ies of Sun, in roughly timeline order: Work­ing on […]

2010 01 21 Comments (0)

Moving to Windows 7 — Part One

The mother­board on my old Win­dows XP box quit while I was tak­ing a break for lunch one day, and I decided to replace it with an updated Win­dows box. So I’ll keep on using a Snow Leo­pard laptop, OpenSol­aris server, and Win­dows 7 as well. Maybe I was ask­ing for trouble, going with the 64-bit […]

2010 01 19 Comments (5)

Meeting Productivity

Some months ago, Time magazine pub­lished an art­icle called Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Busi­ness, about how really pro­duct­ive meet­ings need someone in them to stop too much con­sensus too early. The art­icle starts Want to get the most out of your next brain­storm­ing ses­sion at work? Bring in an oddball. If you […]

2010 01 05 General
Project Management Comments (0)

Dead Links

In the gen­eral spirit of tidy­ing up before the Christmas/New Year period I used a link checker on my blog (Integ­rity on the Mac, I’ve also used Xenu on Win­dows). And dis­covered a bunch of 404s. Some were to sites that still exist but either reor­gan­ized without set­ting up 301 redir­ects, or deleted the content […]

2009 12 09 Comments (1)