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Nearly a week into the Olympics, CTV unveiled their Olympic widget. The widget is put together by ClearSpring and can be embedded just about anywhere easily, including any Wordpress-based blog.

Check out the left pane of http://www.theupsons.net for a peek at what the finished product looks like.

The process is automated if you [...]

Better to be upgraded and safe then sorry

Today I was following up on some harmless messages I have been seeing on some iSCSI Initiators I have setup that provide disk to a number of ESX servers over a Gigabit LAN. It appears that there may be some limitations running the newest flavour of ESX with current IET. One recent [...]

A few years ago Toronto Hydro replaced my household hydro meter with a digital one (aka Smart Meter). Since logging in initially a few years back, I receive periodic updates reminding me of the fact that I can review my consumption levels and the impact of Time-Of-Use (TOU) billing online. Out of sheer [...]

Recently I acquired a Novatel Ovation MC950D UMTS Modem. A quick google to find links on how to setup revealed a few generic methods, with nothing very Ubuntu specific. As is turns out, the Mobile Broadband setup is build right into the Network Manager.

I simply configured a udev script to activate [...]

Well, I caught a glimpse of what I expect will be the realm of my next computer purchase; A cheap, functional and powerful netbook with built in UMTS modem and a high resolution LED backlit convertible tablet display with SSD drive and enough RAM to do real tasks and drive a feature rich desktop.

Of course [...]

For some time now I have observed the Ubuntu dmesg line
[ 10.799981] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8
and wondered if this was (a) a properly recognized piece of hardware, (b) a feature of my laptop or my Seagate STxxxxxxxx hard disk and (c) what applications might take advantage of it, assuming I can [...]

Earlier today I engaged in a conversation with an engineering team (software developers) on some information gathering related to some work we are doing. Generally when looking for information, there is always a bit of angst when the Google result set contains numerous links to Experts Exchange, none of which when clicked on can deliver [...]