Friday, January 11, 2008

Died in a OMAP Accident

I will be un-shamed of increasing my blog hit, but then what the heck: Following http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dangers.png

here are the stuff that died:
Many Silicons - cause - Money
Many drivers 'nd patches - cause - bad coding
U-boot OMAP3430 support - cause - errr....
Me - cause... Laziness :D

Saturday, January 05, 2008

thunderspecial

I moved to http://quickquote.mozdev.org/faq.html instead of playing around with user.js everytime for thunderbird reply message customization. I would have done the good old days"
//vista: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\user.js (ofcourse you
need to change permissions to edit..)
// Change the reply header
// 0 -
No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author]
wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjunction
with this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);
// If you set 3
for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":");
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]
OR
you can go -> Tools->Options->Advanced Tab->General subtab -> Config editor
in the filter search for reply_header, edit the values like that in the previous example..
OR
use quick quote... :)

+points I see: the script gets us "xyz@gmail.com said on" instead with quick quote, u'd get "nishanth menon said on" + remember to edit the quick quotes in addon menu and set it up to replace the reply and reply-all settings to integrate it as part of ur normal mailing procedure..
have fun..

Thursday, January 03, 2008

finally back on track again...







What a journey... 2 years of 17 inch laptop to today's 12 inch laptop... My old laptop been dead for a month now.. finally got my new lenovo thinkpad tablet working.. (yep.. Linux is pending.. :D mebbe I will go ubuntu this time).. Love the compact light and extreme configuration... only I got me vista 32 bit and 4GB of RAM but only 3GB visible due to the 32bit OS. Linux should fix it (will save me 139$ for moving to vista 64 bit ultimate).. what else.. blazing config core duo T7200 proc, 4GBRAM, 7200RPM HDD blah blah blah... On the downside of things:
a) only rescue CD - the full Disk image or nothing... no customization seen :(
b) hate the function key next to control key..
c) missing touchpad. the control stick is kinda cute... but i am a onehand user of laptops
d) love the light weight, low heat laptop (my wife's HP is literally capable of making a omlette)..
e) love the tablet features.. vista handwriting recognition is: quote my wife:"capable of reading your chicken scratch".. i guess that means it is good :)
f) for the $$ spend, a 30$ cam on the screen and a on screen mic might have been good addition
g) overall - satisfied so far..
Follow up comment: I got Ubuntu working in a breeze, but no wlan still.. :(