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Monthly Archives: October 2009

New hardware – planning

Monday, October 26, 2009

My primary workstation is a 3 and a half year old Dell XPS M1710 laptop and it is getting old – the 320 Gb hard drive is getting small and slow, the 3 Gb or RAM (expanded from 2 Gb) look too small and screen is turning brown in one corner. Also dead or dying: [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-26

Monday, October 26, 2009

Apparently Twitter Tools for Wordpress are not UTF-8 safe – latvian chars turned into '?' http://bit.ly/4A3ajO #
http://bit.ly/JAwIA – finally found out how to make a Wave public. #
Forgot to set bit.ly setting in my TwitterTools, so the tweet about new blog post missed the URL. Here it is http://bit.ly/2KxLug #
Reading http://progit.org – the [...]

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QEMU quit during console startup bind() failed

Saturday, October 24, 2009

To get more Google juice to the problem. If you are trying qemu or libvirt or kvm or virt-manager and when you are starting up your second guest you see a message such like this:

QEMU quit during console startup
bind() failed

Then two of your guests have the same port set for their VNC devices. Change the [...]

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My first post with Google Wave pops up for people

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Some time ago I wrote a test post with a Google Wave embedded into the post. Only a couple days ago I discovered that to make a Wave public one needs to add public@a.gwave.com as a participant to the wave. I did that and the Wave became visible also to people without Wave accounts. But [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-19

Monday, October 19, 2009

Gooooood morning, Vieeeeeetnam! #
Accenture day 3 – I've finally figured out all control surfaces of my chair. Bliss. Might as well work now #
Prowling for a good lunch spot around Accenture iffice. Got several suggestions – week full of testing ahead #
http://bit.ly/6taB9 – Nice! A good rescue image of Ubuntu made [...]

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Test post with an embedded wave

Friday, October 2, 2009

Hello all, the latest craze is the Google Wave preview. I am in, so I am testing how a Google Wave will look when primitively embedded into a blog post using Wavr plugin for Wordpress. And here it is:
Update: to make it work – replace in the Wavr source the URL to the WavePanel to [...]

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