The transition was reasonably painless, a few adjustments to make, like using init.d instead of service. I made some notes for myself that others might find helpful:

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu KVM Host notes

Ubuntu KVM Guest notes

When asked to Open or Save, open it with iCal and it should prompt you which calendar to add the event too.

UPDATE: Outlook 2003 displays an error ‘Cannot import vCalendar file. Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not valid.’ More current versions might work.

Also, you might consider adding alerts to these events once they have been exported to iCal.

For me this happened as I was adding CoreData to an existing iPhone project, the quick answer is that even after adding the Framework correctly you have to update your *_Prefix.pch file to include the Library.

Please see Here for details.

Well guess what, you can adjust the closer. Shocking, I know.

Most closers have two screws, one adjusting the ’sweep’ the other the ‘latch’ pressure. The sweep is the stage where the door is wide open and the latch is the last few inches, before hitting the latch.

I had to adjust my latch screw, which was the bottom one in the picture. Some closers are labeled, mine wasn’t, so I guessed.

Turning the screw in slowed the door’s speed, turning the screw out increased the speed.

Now no more slamming doors and upset neighbors.

With apologies to Mr. Jarvis, I would like to suggest that The Best Computer is The One That’s With You. For me that is my new Macbook Air.

I bought it as a refurb from Apple’s website, it is small and light enough that I can carry it around and don’t really notice it. The multi touch trackpad is so much better then my old Powerbook’s single touch trackpad.

In addition, using my tethered iPhone to get Internet access lets me be online anywhere. No more scamming WiFi signals.

There are some short comings; only one USB port and no built in Ethernet jack. But those are minor gripes.

Of course it is the best computer for me because I am always able to get online and do a quick bit of work and ‘good enough’ that I am actually productive.

In a few steps you can.

1. Choose your song in iTunes, right click, choose ‘Get Info’.
2. Under the ‘Options’ tab there is a ‘Start time’ and ‘Stop time’, edit your song so that it plays only what you want. Don’t worry you can undo the Start and Stop times when we are done.
3. Click ‘Okay’ to save changes to your Start and Stop times.
4. Right click the song again and choose ‘Create AAC Version’. This will create a new file and add it to iTunes. You should see it right below your old file.
5. Right click the old song and under the ‘Options’ tab reset the Start and Stop times.
6. Right click the new song and choose ‘Show in Finder’ (or equivalent PC option).
7. When you find this new file, rename the extension from m4a to m4r.
8. Now delete the new file in iTunes, right click on the new file, choose ‘Delete’, then ‘Remove’ but choose to ‘Keep File’.
9. Now drag your .m4r file back onto the Library icon in iTunes.

You’re done!

Reminder: make sure you are syncing your ringtones to your phone.

My dad’s ring tone is now Yakety Sax, I figure Benny Hill would be proud.

(Tested on iTunes 9.0.1 for OS X.)

So far pretty good, only a few dead zones one big one near the Darlington power station and Edge only zone at the Port Hope VIA station.

Having internet on the VIA trains isn’t new, they have wifi, but it is nice not having to worry about it.

UPDATE: Huge Edge section from Port Hope to Cobourg, gah.

UPDATE 2: Edge from Cobourg to Belleville.

UPDATE 3: East of Belleville picked up 3G again, I think coverage is good if you can see the 401 from the train

(Aside: favicons are the images next to the url for some websites.)

Sometimes the favicons will change randomly. Example, I use delicious.com to manage my bookmarks and on Windows XP the bookmark for delicious seems to ‘pickup’ whatever link I clicked last from delicious.

Not a huge deal, but come on, this isn’t rocket surgery here.

So the plan for this weekend is to get a 1.0 OpenWiimote out the door. I have an action plan, just need to execute it. Easy right? Hah.

Follow me on twitter, yay, here:

http://twitter.com/gordonturner

New project (using Google code) to provide a processing library for the wiimote:

http://code.google.com/p/openwiimote/