It’s been a bit quiet on here; x-mas was “louder” than normal there seemed to be more to do than normal and I forgot to schedule some seasons greetings on the 25/12 & 01/01 so my apologies. I’ve acquired extra time-sinks, I’m now a MAC Fanboy as I’ve brought a shiny new toy (expect mac related posts) . My Cisco Certification is due for renewal so I really really should study and I have “Project R” which is a weekend project … basically a website for a friend…. oh and thanks to all the recent snow around here the car really needs a clean!

So, I should get on, get organised and be grateful that this time-sink helps organise my thoughts.

If you’re having performance problems with my mind maps try modifying the graphics settings…

• Choose “Edit > Preferences > Mind Map”
• Uncheck
  • Enable Animation
  • Enable Shadow
  • Gradient Colour

and possibly modify spell check settings….

• Choose “Edit > Preferences > Spelling”
• uncheck “Enable spell checking”

Hope that helps!

Reference: xmind.net/faq/

I can’t find an official suggestions or “request for enhancements” webpage for sony’s ps3; I’m sure the developers are fed of of people asking for in game access to music or the web browser so it’s hidden away somewhere, but I think I have some genuine fresh ideas…. maybe?

Dynamic Bookmarks from Avahi / Bonjour / ZeroConf
I don’t have a keyboard for my PS3 the reason for this is that I have a PC/Laptop, in the event I want to do some heavy browsing my 1st thought won’t be to use my PlayStation, this being said, I do occasionally use the PS3 to check specific websites; when I download content from the PlayStation Store I have a tendency to log into my cacti install and check on my bandwidth usage, typing http://192.168.168.168/cacti into my bookmarks was a real pain via the on-screen keyboard, but if the PS3 could have learned this from network that would have been really cool. Direct Access to my bookmarks from the XMB would be nice too.

UPNP Media Servers & the XMB need a re-think
My mediatomb server shares out my “media” directory, in that directory I have all of my A/V content. The thing is to switch between watching my latest family video and viewing pictures of the fireworks last week rather than just playing “any” content available in the directory, I have to scroll all the way back to the start of the XMB change from video to picture and then dive all the way back through my directory structure, perhaps something like ~/media/family/events/5Nov09/….. this can become quite tiresome.
My Solution would to make media servers an extra top level XMB entry which appears when a server is found, thus allowing users to directly drill through any content.

If anyone happens to stumble across this page and knows where I should submit my ideas feel free to leave a comment.

It seems like ages since I started friggin about with linickx.com.

The basic deal is I wanted to completely re-design my website, in doing this I also wanted to simplify the up-keep/maintenance of it too, this resulted in me moving from gallery to WP’s internal gallery, i.e. when it came to patching and upgrading, one less thing to worry about. The downside of this maneuver has been my image gallery had to be manually imported into wordpress, and then every post with an image had to be found and updated, well I think I’m finally there!

Hopefully just a few little design tweaks to the theme left, and linickx.com v3 will be complete

After reading this from Ma.tt, I’ve downloaded dropbox, I’ve had it installed for less than an hour, but I figure they’re worth a post purely for the kudos of releasing a true multi-platform application.

Finding something that can sync between my home linux box and work windohs machine is a real pain so I’m really hoping this will be the answer I’ve been looking for; it’s not that win-linux sync’ing is impossible, it’s just that it’s usually restrictive or so complicated/ un-user-friendly that I never bother.

The only thing the service needs is some WordPress to “public box” integration and the solution is dam’ed near perfect

While I to keep my fingers crossed that dropbox is everything I want it to be, why don’t you try it out?

Why can’t I remember this command?

In order to remove the entire access list, use the clear configure access-list command

I can only speak one language, I do have a french qualification but it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on; so I admire anyone who’s native tongue isn’t english yet speak/reads/writes english.

Comments on my blog pose a problem, a tell tale sign of an e-mail or comment spam is poor english, now I’m not talking about having 100% correct grammar or spelling, in-fact this post title “good english comments” isn’t correct! What I’m talking about is comments that simply don’t make sense.

Recently I’ve been working with a guy from Brazil, he’s not the 1st I’ve met, but this was obviously his 1st trip to the UK. During our work it was very apparent that half of what he said/wrote didn’t make sense and in order to carry out his work I’ve had to guess at a load of the requirements.

Today I’ve received a comment on my blog which I simply can’t decide if it’s someone with poor English skills or SPAM, there’s no hyper-links which leans me toward it being genuine, but I simply don’t want to take the risk, I haven’t even finished repairing the pictures on my site, let alone have the time to clean up after some inter-twat spammer! I would like to thank both akismet & bad behavior for all their help with detecting spam…. I wonder if there’s some kind of grammar checker for comments to help the real people submit comments that make sense?

So with all being said, I send my apologies to all who have had comments deleted on my blog.

As it’s late, and I’m bored waiting for a customer call back, I thought I’d write about something both amusing & irritating. Recently I purchased a copy of Network Security Technologies & Solutions from Amazon, as I’m in no hurry I opted for the free royal mail delivery option. When I got home I found the Amazon box on my door-step and surprising the the box was open!!!

You hear about things going lost in the mail regularly and I can only presume that someone responsible for sorting the parcel spotted a rather heavy box from Amazon and thought it must be some expensive gadget, how disappointed they must have been to see that it was a dull old Cisco book

Ok, so I’ve moved jobs, the first thing that’s massively different is that I can’t use Linux :’( – the new place has load of custom fat client windows apps (help-desk & crm) so I can’t dump windows.

Now this post isn’t a Linux vs windows rant, more, a note about how it’s effecting me. To start with, I’ve been using evolution for so long that I’ve actually forgotten how to use outlook !!!!!! Other stuff is IM & RSS readers, I’m using thunderbird because I can’t find a suitable replacement for lifera , and MSN it’s got adverts all over it, back to gaim I think !

What’s most noticeable about going back to windows is that I’m working more, using Linux at work seemed to distract me, because I have my web development stuff on my machine, and RSS feed me with cool Linux things to check out I was never ‘bored‘…. notice how nothings changed on this site for a while ?

At least I can find solitude at home, fedora core 5 is out in a month, and I’m really looking forward to putting my new amd64 thru’ it’s paces, and for the time being the dell laptop work have given me can stay windows; although thinking aloud I might have enough RAM to run vmware player so I could move the windows stuff to that, although if I end up using the vmWindows more it’s kind a pointless running Linux.

Ho-hum, one good thing of using windows is that I can compare google desktop to beagle !