Category Archives: General

This morning I got bluetooth working from Win2k. After a few reboots (of both PC and phone) I was able to transfer over a few gam^h^h^h^happs to the phone. It seems the Win2k software opens an ftp connection to the phone!
I wonder if anyone has done any work getting the phone setup as an external ftp server inside KDE Konqueror?

I installed Red Hat 9 on a server here. Then I downloaded apt for Red Hat 9 and did an “update” and “upgrade”. It found updated packages for openssl, samba, and sendmail so be warned if you’re putting a virgin RH9 box on the internet – chances are it has exploitable applications.

I just heard Robert Fisk talk on Today FM. He told how the tank that fired on the Palestine Hotel wasn’t being sniped upon. He was halfway between the tank and the hotel itself and didn’t hear any attack. A French film crew in the hotel were filming the tank for 5 minutes and didn’t record any shots. Hours later did an American General not announce that the tank was under attack from snipers? Was he covering up something?
Robert described seeing a father raise his child to a camera for the world to see: all that was left of the child was a head, torso and one arm. The world will never see those images.
Roberted posted an excellent article this morning from Baghdad. Go read it.

Vodafone have revised their GPRS pricing and it’s now a lot cheaper (AFAIR). Thankfully my USB Bluetooth adaptor came yesterday (Thanks Niall!), so now I only have to figure out how to get it working in Linux with my Nokia 7650! Any help appreciated! (via Peter)

Edit in 2025: I fixed the link to that pricing page. Look at that, 3 Euro per megabyte of GPRS data. You’d burn through that looking at Facebook in a second or two.

When you’re using any other editor don’t press “u” to undo when you have lots of text highlighted. Just because you pressed ESC before doesn’t put you into command mode! Luckily I regained my senses and hit CTRL-Z.

BTW – using Open Office on my Red Hat 8.0 running box at home. It’s excellent!

Apparently Ryan Tubridy mentioned this site between 7am and 7:30am this morning. Unfortunately I only turned the radio on at 7:30 so I missed it. Thanks for the mention Ryan! (I’m psychic, that’s how I know he mentioned me, no really! No, ‘fraid not, thanks John for telling me!)

There’s been some trading on my Blogshares blog account. The site valuation has sky-rocketed overnight and should continue to do so as blog link here. Woo! Me’s (virtually) rich!

One to bookmark for future reading!

kuro5hin.org || Pants vandal caught on video – A guy who walked down a street in underpants broke 43 windows! hehe. Includes an image gallery and video.

Trade shares in your blog at Blog Share! You can find information on Holy Shmoly! here. Feel free to trade on my blog, as it should go up in price as b2-smarty becomes more popular! (I hope!)

I doubt I’ll ever have to rent office space in New York but you never know. Joel’s moving office and he’s got some great tips here. Some of them will even apply if you’re looking to lease private accomodation too.