Larry’s Things .net

Ontario based company “Spatial View” seems to have a product that produces a 3d image on a screen without needing 3d glasses.   Looks promising.

freefilesync

http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/

I think the Dell Network Assistant has been triggering my access alarms on my network .   Not 100% sure yet, but this software would suck if it’s doing port scans whenever someone connects their laptop to my network.

The solution at the adobe website did not work - kb401528.

What did work was to use Terminal , use sudo (or su) , then cd to \Library\Preferences\ , then rename “FLEXnet publisher” to “xFLEXnet publisher”  then just start any CS3 product.

Observations:  

- the text to speech is not bad…  still pronounces a lot of street names incorrectly though.

Pros: 

- Screen is very clear and bright.   Even works well with polarized sunglasses.

- Menu system is more logically arranged that that of the TomTom series

- the bluetooth link with the cellphone for handsfree calling works very well.   Even with the noisy interior of a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the other person on the call can still hear the conversation very clearly

Cons: 

- the usb car adapter seems to be very specific to the Garmin.   Attempting to use a third party car adapter puts the Garmin into computer connect mode, and you end up losing gps usage while it is connected.

Interesting product - Oxygen inhaler , good for 14 one second blasts of 90% oxygen.

http://www.oxy2go.com/index.php

Seems to have extensive knowledge of how manufacturers work in China. 

http://www.psychometrics.com/

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook Window. The set folders could not be opened.

Error shows up when attempting to use “offline” mode .    It should just allow access to the local pst file.

Source:  Rafael Brusilow - Metro News - Metronews.ca/work  Sept 30, 2009Solo Electric Ltd, Toronto - Run by Sandy Ragno(no idea how good this company actually is - take this advice at your own risk)

(Kobe Beef, Mishima Beef)J-town at Steeles Ave in Toronto now has Wagyu Beef available - the individual sublet company selling it is called Famu , http://www.famu.ca .   Also seen was 8 week dry aged beef.   Oh man, all the beef looked so nicely marbled - I’ve so rarely seen such beautiful cuts of beef in Toronto.   Price as of Dec 12, 2009 for wagyu beef was $50 for 800g .    The website is all in japanese, but I’m pretty sure the people working there can speak english.   J-Town is located at 3160 Steeles Ave. E., Unit 6-11, Markham, Ontario. 

This concert was awesome.    Listening to John William’s music in it’s true full spectrum analog form is waaay better than any 44.1 kHz sampled CD.   Definitely worth the ticket price, around $60 CDN for 301 level seats directly facing the stage - which in my opinion are the best seats to view it, as you have a full clear view of everything.

One thing that another person commented on another site was the number of kids in attendance, which to this person, detracted from the experience.   Here in the Toronto concert, yes, lots of kids were in attendance, but all in all, they were well behaved.   But step back for a minute…  Star Wars is a kids movie series, of course there’s going to be kids at this concert!   I mean, jeez, look at all the merchandizing and marketing from Kenner toys when Star Wars first came out… it was kids playing with Star Wars toys.   I’m not sure how the musicians are going to handle their punishing schedule, it’s practically every other day in a different city!   How the hell are they going to assemble and disassemble all the equipment that quickly.   My only guess is that they have two identical sets that leap frog each other and different sets of musicians.

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On one of our workstations, we started getting a word too long error from the labcshrc start up script, and hence unable to start the coot software.    The problem was that the setenv PATH was too long for tcsh to handle.   It looks like the sbgrid people tried to temporarily fix it by creating a link at /programs/l that linked to /programs/i386-linux , and in the shell script at /programs/i386-linux/linuxlabcshrc - all references to i386-linux was changed to l .   However,  there were some places in the script at /programs/labcshrc that set the path to i386-linux instead of just l , and it was using up valuable variable space.   Search and replace all references in labcshrc of /programs/i386-linux to /programs/l , and it should fix the “word too long” problem.

Seems to be much better than endnote, and it’s free!    Allows cross platform mac/pc access to your citations.

http://www.zotero.org/