- Been out driving fast cars as a reward for hard work – thanks http://www.iknow-uk.com pics are at http://www.ihelm.org.uk/iknow_a_lotus/ #
- #MotionX Share: Segway route!! http://bit.ly/46vEx #
- I'm iphone 3.0's MMS here we are… nothing else seems to have changed really – couple of my apps may be obsolete now though! #
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Iphone 3.0 OS update – initial thoughts
After waiting and hitting the Check for Updates button over and over again – at 7pm BST it finally arrived.. queue the 200+ MB download and the wait…
Once downloaded the update I had to wait for it to transfer the files – then it rebooted – great stuff… until the emergency call slider appeared – hmm – nothing happened – left for 20 mins – nothing happened. Odd..
Undock, redock – restart – still the same how odd. Time for the old fav – Turn off….. wait 5 mins….and turn on… and hey presto it worked.. So not the most smooth of updates – but nothing I am not used to.
Right first impressions.
It’s fast… Wayyyy fast, my Iphone is overloaded with apps – I mean really overloaded – we are talking 9 pages or so full of apps… and now it’s fast.
Switching between native things such as SMS , phone and dock is great – the hidden page to the left (spotlight) for searching is great… though maybe not too useful for me – I don’t store documents on the phone afterall.
MMS works with O2 and is brill 🙂 about time – not got anyone to send me one yet – but me sending works – so that’s a big plus – suspect it costs me though, need to find out from O2.
Audio recording – brilliant, had an app to do it before – but this actually is higher quality – and the app tended to get confused if interrupted – this works in the background! so you can do things and it’s still recording – excellent!
Bluetooth pairing with headset – AT LAST – my old old phone could do this – and now my iphone can too – no more cables to listen to things I can wear my nice headphones and get the sound – the quality is good too – better than most pairings!
All in all brilliant – now all I need is the new apps (tom tom??) and video recording – which we know the phone can do if jailbroken – so come on – I don’t need high quality – I just need to be able to record my daughter playing sometimes!!
Oh and on itunes it looks like I can buy movies an series.. seems pretty good, what if my space is limited and the download time seems a bit excessive.. we will see.
rm Argument list too long.. Linux Huh? moment.
I recently had a little problem when deleting a store of spam e-mails off one of my personal servers.
Basically entering the standard death defying command of “rm -Rfv *” while in a directory (this will delete everything recursively – have fun), the system responded “Argument list too long” – cue the first “huh?” moment – I’ve used the command for years and years, never had a problem.
I did “man rm” to check I hadn’t had a “moment” and forgotten how to use it – nope.. . A little trawling came up with several people with the same problem but no really practical solutions. The problem occurs when you have too many files for the built in systems used by the rm command in the kernel – these are pretty old so have some limits that you don’t expect! – you can do this:
rm -Rfv a* then rm -Rfv A* – these deletes all files starting with a or A etc.. – very long and rather silly – so after thinking and thinking and muttering an old command came to mind 🙂 using a combination of find and xargs you can pipe a file on at a time so here we go – my favoured solution:
find . -name * | xargs rm -fv
This works fine – I suspect it will have a limit somewhere, but my server hasn’t hit it yet!
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14
- RT @iknow_uk: Natural History #Museum, South Kensington, #London http://bit.ly/11QP1a and the original pre-ironed! http://is.gd/ZbG0 #
- Daily Buzz:: london is having a tube train strike and the dutch exam failure is causing some sunny talks… isn't twitter weird! #
- RT @iknow_uk: Picture of the day: Nymans Gardens, National Trust Mid Sussex http://bit.ly/wxeS5 and my take! http://tinyurl.com/lyclud #
- Wants a new iphone! #
- Wondering why things that are meant to be clever aren't #
- What's happened to the weather ? Tornado looms over Bude, #Cornwall, as wild weather hits the Southwest http://bit.ly/xoX1y via @iknow_Uk #
- Looking forward to the apprentice .. and making tea 😛 #
Natural History Museum Picture unfurled
Iknow Uk seem to have found an ancient picture of the Natural History Museum in London. Located at http://www.flickr.com/photos/iknow-uk/3600512285/in/set-72157619251872997/
The flickr account appears to have a revamped picture – however exclusively here is the original – before it got ironed flat!
A little play with some picture work :)
Saw this on iknow-uk’s flickr account today : http://www.flickr.com/photos/iknow-uk/3573803284/in/set-72157618835887949/
And since it’s a nice picture I thought I would touch it up a little bit with a couple of programs – so after tweaking I applied a filter to make it look like a watercolour 🙂 And here it is 🙂 Nyman Gardens almost as if I painted it myself!
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
- getting annoyed at spammers trying to send spam via the company sites – go away you aren’t getting in stop annoying me! #
- New Blog up for http://www.delicatedreams.co.uk – view it on . The start of more regular blogs! #
- Wondering why ubuntu doesn’t like his 5 yr old laptop – I want to ditch windows on it! #
- See our pictures, from preparing the #NationalBusinessAwards finalist presentation to the presentation, http://bit.ly/hmvah (via @iknow_uk) #
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Anti-Spam on servers…
After several years of running different solutions on different servers I have found that ASSP is one of the best anti-spam solutions around.
However – after some time it still struggles and gets weaker, can anyone recommend any other systems that can work ALONGSIDE it (not replace).
Loss of title bar / close , minimise and maximise buttons in ubuntu
A few weeks ago I upgraded ubuntu to Gutsy Gibbon – I was very impressed, the enhanced graphics which were not available to me in feisty now worked.
However somehow last week I lost my title bar, so no window title, no minimise or maximise button and the close button was gone. In addition the terminal window was now broken loading up a blank page.
After trawling through various forums and trying half a dozen fixes, with no success I finally tried turning off the special effects, and now have them back.
It’s a bit frustrating, I can only assume that one of the regular updates broke the driver that was working for me previously as no settings had been changed. Ah well – anyone with this problem, it’s really not worth the hassle just to have windows that wobble when moved and desktops that slide when changed 🙂
Cats continued
Well after a few months – I thought I would update everyone about the Lion Poo story.
Basically applied it after getting annoyed at cats using the garden as a toilet, harem and anything else they wanted. At first we didn’t see much of a change, however by the time 3 days had past we still saw the same number of cats… except they didn’t stop – they just walked through, no more poo, no more fighting etc…
Just over a month afterwards – this was still the case, now around 2 months afterwards the cats are starting to come back – but all in all this Lion Poo stuff does work! Would have expected it to keep cats away in total – however just stopping them using our “facilities” is good enough for me!