Category Archives: General

Installing Goldmine on a Samba share has proved very awkward in the past. All right, it’s downright depressing as the software seems to be very shoddy and I’ve never heard anything good about Goldmine from an administrator (I’m sure bosses are happy with it though..)
After doing several Google Searches for help I stumbled across several useful and related links. I mailed a few of the people who posted and Jason Boerner replied that he has upgraded to the development version of Samba at the time and turned off all optimization tricks for that share. It was slow but it worked. This morning John managed to install Goldmine 5 on a Samba share without too much trouble. It remains to be seen whether or not it will run satisfactorilly.
We’re going to try and tune it a bit to increase speed. At the moment here’s what the definition for that share looks like:

----smb.conf----
[Goldmine]
............snipped unimportant information............
oplocks = False
socket options =
strict locking = yes
read raw = no
write raw = no
read prediction = no

I’ll update later with more news as we re-enable settings.

Ireland shuts down when we play in the world cup. Yesterday I drove into town to join Martina in a pub to watch Ireland play Saudi Arabia. Driving in was like driving on a Sunday morning, before the shops open! There was barely a soul in sight and the pubs were packed! Of course, after the match, car horns were blaring for a few hours afterwards at the sight of people in the tri-colour or green hats or other green clothing.
We’re through to the second round and will play Spain or South Africa on Sunday. Martina’s working on Sunday so she’s not a happy camper. It’s the Munster hurling final too and Tipp are playing which she’d have loved to watch. Hopefully the shop she works in will close or something, as *nobody* will be buying books while Ireland play!

Saudi Arabia 0, Ireland 3! Woo! Atmosphere in the pub was magic!

This is an experiment. I’ll post results in a few days.

Anyway, I work at TradeSignals where we help people trade futures by providing them with interactive charting and static charts. Our users can even list their favourite futures symbols and have them refresh every minute so they can keep an eye on progress through out the day. Users even get Streaming Quotes & Charts which has been very popular.
Anyway, getting into futures is very expensive, it’s cut-throat and the wins and losses are phenomenal. You have to watch the markets closely, even the 10 minute-delayed data provided by MyQuotes can be too late to avoid you losing thousands of dollars, either on the bullish or bearish sides of a deal. That’s where Explorer comes into play. Tracking futures commodities via that application is childs-play, sort of. You have buy and sell signals on an interactive Java chart, a serperate messaging window beeps and warns of trades and it’s become invaluable to a number of our customers.

Experiment over .. back to normal service!

Garret’s got his camera ready for the solar eclipse tonight. Europe doesn’t get a look in this time unfortunately, but there’s some good pics over at the Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 8th and June 10th. Make sure you check the archive, there’s some lovely pictures available.

One of the great defects in Linux compared to Windows is that it is not infected by cool viruses. hehe.

Hey Garret, just noticed this in my referers. I’m still depressed being at home! Especially after looking over all the photographs taken while there. Off to Thailand in August with Martina hopefully, not sure how we’ll afford it though!

about:mozilla still works in Gecko based browsers! (tested in Galeon so I presume it’ll work in Mozilla.) Unfortunately it doesn’t give you the nice fire breathing dragon as a loading icon.

Aikan examines how Mozilla interprets the blogsnob advert. He used Holy Shmoly as one of his examples, thanks!

Mozilla 1.0 is out! Now’s the time for everyone else to upgrade! I’ll upgrade just as soon as Galeon is updated to support the new release.