August 2007 – Page 2 – Famous last words of Marius

RSS update – 15 August 2007

Posted on 15 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

It is a glorious sunny day in Cape Town so before I hit the road, something to keep you busy for the day.

Nokia phone users —
Have your battery checked out – Nokia Recalls 46 Million Batteries – luckily mine (N80) is not on the list
IBM —
Worldâ€™s tiniest art from IBM on display
Woohoo, Notes/Domino8 has been announced, eGA 17th! — yes that is in 2 days time.
Lotus Notes 8 Is Unleashed Unto The World
IBM overrides IBM’s Superfast Computer
WordPress —
Navigating WordPress source code
Great insightful reads â€“
Mark Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?
PHP —
PHP frameworks – Which one is Most Suitable for you?
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend â€“
Free Download Manager 2.5 build 688
Notepad++ 4.2.1
Opera for Windows 9.23 Build 8808 Final
Facebook —
Choose Your (Facebook) Friends Carefully
Facebook and the Case for Open Source
Cheat Sheets —
Python Cheat Sheet

STS-118 Shuttle mission:

Image: Nasa
This view of the Space Shuttle Endeavour clearly shows its payload bay and upper surfaces.

Technorati Tags: nokia batteries, ibm, art, lotus, notes 8, wordpress, unified document format, php frameworks, free download manager, facebook friends, superfast computer, Blue Water, facebook code, python cheat sheet, Notepad++ 4.2.1, opera, cape town, nasa, endeavour

RSS feed update – 14 August 2007

Posted on 14 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Since the weather here in Cape Town is real miserable today, I will give you another batch of items from my feedreader.

Sporty stuff —
Golf family’s holey trinity — and I have been playing for years and have not got one.
Cape Town —
Crowdsourcing a new identity : for a city — from the Hunter of Genius – have a look at that picture, how can one not love this city.
Burning residence brings out the best in people — this is Eendrag residence on Stellenbosch .. where my son is going next year so holding thumbs that it will be rebuild by that time.
Blogging —
why we’re all blogging less — while you at it looking at Hugh’s cartoons on the back of business cards.
Facebook and PHP —
PHP Did Not Cause Facebook Code Leakage
And the actual code
In my view the best Facebook app — That’s just Scrabulous.
Linux —
Aptitude vs Apt-Get
Mount a Windows shared folder in Linux
Great insightful reads —
Leadership and Management Skills in the Knowledge Economy
Note Taking: A Beginner’s Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
Ad-Aware 2007 Reference File 0015.0000
Notepad++ v4.2 – column mode edition
IBM —
New version of Sametime — Sametime 7.5.1 tip – changing downloads page

Picture of the day — The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust which is 3000 lightyears from earth.

Credit and Copyright: R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)

Technorati Tags: golf, hole-in-one, Crowdsourcing, cape town, hunter of genius, blogging, php, facebook, linux, apt-get, aptitute, scabulous, IBM, leadership, facebook code, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, windows shared folder, ad-aware, sametime 7.5.1 CF1, mind mapping, notepad++, eendrag, stellenbosch, trifid nebula

Eerste golf in amper 7 maande.

Posted on 13 August 2007 by Marius — 1 Comment ↓

Vandag weer vir die eerste keer in amper 7 maande gaan golf speel. Ek het by my tuisklub, Bellville gaan speel.

Eers die weer. Met die begin was die weer perfek. Bietjie toegetrek, koelerig en ‘n ligte windjie wat gewaai het. Na 15 gatjies begin dit toe mos te reÃ«n. Ek hou net niks van om in die reÃ«n te speel nie ma het ma deurgedruk want dit het maar lig gereÃ«n.

Wat die golf betref was dit maar nie watse wonners nie .. ek het darem 7 maande laas gespeel.

Vanaf die 15de bof .. ja mens moet oor die water en vandag kan ek darem se ek is sonder probleme daar oor.

Daar was goeie houe, briljante houe en ook baie slegte houe. Op die ou einde het ek 94 bymekaar geskraap en siende dat ek ‘n 19 voorgee is, is dit seker nie te sleg nie.

Die 9de putjie se bof met die klubhuis in die verte.

Die enigste bal wat ek verloor het was op die 9de putjie waar ek die bal regs buite perke geslaan het.

Die fotos is met my Nokia N80 selfoon geneem. Glad nie sleg vir ‘n selfoon kamera nie.

Technorati Tags: golf, reen, bellville, nokia n80

RSS feed update – 12 August 2007

Posted on 12 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

Short one for this Sunday:

Space enthusiasts —
Space Hotel to Open in 2012
Web 2.0 —
Clever and stupid ways for business to use Web 2 — luckily the company I work for (IBM) is mostly on the green side.
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
FileZilla 3.0.0 RC1
What is GIMP?
All things Google —
Weekly Google Code Roundup for August 10th
Hobby projects —
Exporting from MythTV

With STS-118 mission on the go .. the first Spacewalk.

Image above: Mission Specialist Rick Mastracchio participates in the first spacewalk of the STS-118 mission.
Image: NASA TV

Technorati Tags: space hotel, ibm, web 2.0, filezilla, google, mythtv, GIMP, sts-118

RSS feed update – 11 August 2007 and Amatomu ranking

Posted on 11 August 2007 by Marius — 2 Comments ↓

First, the Amatomu flash ribbon display the ~~wrong ranking on my site~~ (This has now been fixed). Here is what is displayed at the moment
and this is the actual ranking . Anybody else has the same problem?

On to today’s tidbits:

Cape Town, the best city in the world —
My Perfect City Challenge — what do you want Cape Town to be like and win big!! I will make sure I get my piece in.
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
DivX for Windows 2000/XP 6.6 (1.0.0.306)
Power replacements for built-in Windows utilities
IBM —
Integrating IBM Rational RequisitePro with IBM Rational Portfolio Manager: Importing Requirements
Linux History —
The 0.10 Release
SCO vs the world —
Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!
Huge ruling in SCO v. Novell!
And this says it all — SCO is toast!!!

To go with the Perfect City Challenge — Cape Town from Robben Island.

Technorati Tags: amatomu ranking, cape town, accelerate, divx, windows utilities, rational, portfolio manager, ibm, requisitepro, developerworks, linux 0.10, sco, linux, novell

RSS feed update – 10 August 2007

Posted on 10 August 2007 by Marius — No Comments ↓

I am on leave at the moment so these might come out more frequently since I will have some time to scan through my feeds.

Today’s links:

IBM —
Lotus Notes, Sametime and other tools for Linux — Open Collaboration Client for Linux
Zend & IBM expands partnership to bring unprecedented database scalability to the PHP platform
Free/Open Source software I use or recommend —
Opera 9.23 Build 8807 Final
SmartFTP (x86) 2.5.1006.18 Beta beta – this is free for personal use
FastStone Image Viewer 3.3 Beta 3
Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 4 alpha
Open PDF’s in a flash with Sumatra
WordPress —
A look inside the WordPress database
Facebook —
Facebook and the enterprise
Cheat Sheets —
Improve your searches with GoogleGuide
Hobby Projects —
I am busy putting together a PVR solution using MythTV but also found — HD PVR, media server + smarthome with 3d gyro UI

The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour lit up the sky at sunset as it lifted off on time at 6:36 p.m. EDT on mission STS-118, is the 22nd shuttle flight to the International Space Station. —

Image credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley