Random thoughts for random people
For a while now my phone (Sony Ericsson K800i) hasn’t been registering calls that I have missed, dialled etc. It was annoying because if I had missed a call I would have no idea who had called!
Anyway, after searching around I finally came across the solution: Menu -> Settings -> New Events -> Pop-up.
Do that and you will be able to see the calls you have made/received/missed in the call list. I have no idea what exactly this feature does but it seems to work so I’m happy again.
Met up with some friends from uni the other night. I hadn’t seen Rikard (far left) for about 7 years and I’ve only seen Max a few times since graduation way back in 2000! It was fun catching up. Just like the good old days. Plenty of nachos and beer too! The picture was taken at Bunker bar in Covent Garden.
Those of you who know me will know that I abhor the use of the term Web 2.0. It’s meaningless! Well it seems I’m not the only one. Mike Moritz, a venture capitalist whose successes include Google and Yahoo to name but a few, was recently asked what Web 2.0 means to him. He replied, ” Nothing – less than zero. Falling romantically in love with buzz phrases tends to be a fairly painful experience in our business.” If one of Silicon Valley’s pre-eminent VCs doesn’t give any credence to the term then neither should you! Enough already.
Source: I came across the quote in an article in the Sunday Times Business section
I managed to kill YouTube! I came across the New Numa video and saw that most of the comments on the first page were rather negative – the video is not worth watching. I also noticed that there were around 13,500 comments so I clicked to see all of them and boom, that’s when I got an internal server error.
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TRAMP is supposed to come installed with Emacs as default from version 21.4.x onwards – well, something like that. Having installed Emacs on Ubuntu using apt-get I couldn’t for the life of me figure why TRAMP wasn’t working! When I tried to open a remote file it kept trying to use FTP and always complained about something or other – I don’t remember exactly what it was complaining about.
Anyway, it turns out that TRAMP is not included with the version of Emacs that I had installed (sigh). To install it type “sudo apt-get install tramp” on the command line and restart Emacs. Viola!
To set the default connection mode to ssh, edit your .emacs file and add the following line:
(setq tramp-default-method “ssh”)
