tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59892516769503349172024-09-04T07:44:14.085-07:00A blog from the developer who developed the infamous DVD Backup Application known as DoItFast4UEyes`Only, the developer of DoitFast4U.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14655096080742762251noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5989251676950334917.post-91657112313157055962013-08-13T02:00:00.001-07:002014-03-02T17:18:54.596-08:00

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The suffering is over As many of you all know due to previous discussions, my brother-in-law, Luis Isais, had brain cancer and was not doing very well. Yesterday afternoon we (Anjie and I) received a stress call from my sister saying that she had put Luis on hospice care and that he was probably going to pass away 'any minute now'. We grabbed a few things and headed up to her house

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"Backlight Timeout"The backlight settings on a Blackberry have got to be some of the most limited I've ever seen. Here's the lot of them:Don't bother looking for more, because you'll be wasting your time. There just aren't any more. As for the timeout, you can see the single setting available. You can select different durations, from 10 secs to 2 minutes. Yes, you read that right. The longest

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"Automatic Memory Cleansing"Here's one of the worst features I have found yet. This is so bad, I can't believe someone else even thought of it, let alone implemented it. Most new users, like myself, had to find out about this feature the hard way-- We saw our SMS and call logs disappearing by themselves and wondered why. In my case, I was clicking around on the phone, so I assumed I must have

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"Forced to use up your main memory quickly"Here's one I couldn't believe when I first found it out: The Blackberry has very little use for an additional memory card. In particular, the latest devices have the ability to use Micro-SD cards which go into a convenient (not really) location above the removable battery. Now, Micro-SD cards come in some decently large sizes, and you can get a 2GB one

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"Stuck with the default fonts"To continue on the subject of Day 3, The today screen themes actually have some pretty decent fonts in them. Unfortunately they are only available on the Today screens. Seriously. When you actually go to read an email, or SMS message, you have the choice of one of eleven built-in fonts. And to make matters worse, there's not a single one of them that make you think "

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"Rudimentary Today Themes"As anyone who has had the pleasure of using a WM device knows, the Today screen is one of the most useful features of a smartphone. To summarize: Using the today screen, you can see all the information you need 'at-a-glance' without having to click anything on your phone. In the WM world, there are many wonderful applications to take advantage of the extreme ability to

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"Address Book from the 80s"One question: Did the developers of this feature have absolutely NO vision? The look of this app is like something you'd see on a non-smartphone, such as a Razor or Nokia. Heck, they probably have better looking address books.For those unfamiliar, here's a nice looking Contacts screenshot from a WM5 device:And here's a screenshot of the primitive looking Address Book on

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Well it finally happened-- My work forced me into using a Blackberry 8830, much to my dismay.Let's start with some background-- I started as a Palm OS smartphone user. I had the Kyocera QCP 6035 to be exact, and loved it. As things progressed, the Palm OS got less and less stable so after going from the Palm 600 to the Palm 650, I migrated to Windows Mobile with the Palm 700W.That being said, I

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Just a quickie for today--If you are interested in finding the package name of an application you have installed, here's a quick line to do it:aptitude search | grep -G "^i"That's all there is to it. Here's an example:eyeslocal@buntuputer:~$ aptitude search fire | grep -G "^i"i firefox-3.0 - safe and easy web browser from Mozilla i firefox-3.0-gnome-support -

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As many OpenSUSE users who have tried to get WPA/WPA2 working with Atheros wireless cards know, the built-in drivers (ath5k) for OpenSUSE leave a lot to be desired. I personally couldn't get them to authenticate to my wireless network at all. Clicking on the network manager applet would show my SSID, but when I clicked on it and entered my password it would continue to ask me again for my

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I've been on a new quest-- I've been acquiring tablet laptops and working diligently to find the best, easiest, and most productive methods of getting touchscreens working on them in Ubuntu. As anyone who has owned a tablet knows, linux is *not quite* ready for them yet, but with enough tweaks and knowledge of the system, a touchscreen tablet can be quite enjoyable even without an MS operating

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A new version of Mozilla Weave was released tonight, and the developer was kind enough to include me in the special thanks section!From https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php?topic=1170.0"Highlights:* Some fixes to the deadlock problem (which causes sync to appear to take forever but not actually do anything)* Some improvements to sync on quit (we now wait to quit if there's a sync running,

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A couple weeks ago, Mozilla released their latest version of Weave 0.2.In the release notes, it states that there a few known issues when used on Linux.Well, it turns out those issues make it unable to be used unless you can figure out how to work around them.With a bit of effort, I figured out an easy way to make Weave 0.2 work with Firefox 3:1. Uninstall Weave from Firefox. Close Firefox.2.

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In order to delete temporary files on a Windows machine, there are many quick CLI commands, such as rmdir "%temp%". Depending on the size of the %temp% folder though, this command can take a bit to run. If you place it into a login script, you'll end up delaying a user's login while their temp folder is being cleaned.To reduce the time needed for deleting temporary files, I suggest using a

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Today I was messing around on my laptop and I needed to edit a menu item. Like usual, I right clicked on the menu bar and selected "Edit Menus". But unlike usual, I was presented with a dialog box that didn't have any buttons to allow me to make changes! Also, I couldn't even right click existing items to edit them. Right clicking was ignored, and no context menu appeared. Basically, what I saw

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Trouble playing some video files? Many formats give linux a run for their money when it comes to playing them as well as they do in Windows.To fix this, Medibuntu supplies a package called non-free-codecs which is basically "w32codecs", a collection of binary windows codecs. By installing non-free-codecs instead of w32codecs, you'll get the codecs that are optimized for your kernel, whether i386,

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This post is based off of several articles on the web along with personal experience. Citrix has always been 'touchy' for linux, but it has gotten much better in the past two years.My work uses Citrix Presentation Server with 128-bit encryption, so I'll be installing and configuring my client to work with that.Also note: Citrix has decided to change the Presentation Server name to XenApp. While I

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Well, all my old articles are now gone but I'm not discouraged. I've got much more where those came from and I'm going to keep on doing what I do best-- Providing information to those that need it.So for those that are just finding my blog, a little information about me:To start with, I'm most known for developing a DVD-backup tool called "DoItFast4U!". It was done during an exciting time-- A

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