Finally I decided starting to replace mouses I’m currently using, start from the development machine at home.
This is the one I bought yesterday:
Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000
so far so good, though I’m going to try some more other models especially Logitech.
When I was in Beijing I installed logmein on my mother’s desktop, and obviously this is a smart move.
Yesterday she got some problem with her computer (missing the shortcut to the camera folder), usually, it would take me quite a while talking to her to know what’s happening there and then spend half an hour or even more to get her understand what should be done to get things fixed.
Now, it becomes super easy – she knows how to enable logmein, and once she did that, I can get to her machine to check around and fix it right away (you know how easy it is, right?), and at the same time she can see what I have done to her machine so just in case she wants to learn some, she can ask questions and I can answer them right away.
This is a nice product, a great free service, I know big companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco are all having similar products, just wish logmein can survive in the competition so that we can keep using it.
BTW, it supports Windows and Mac,both are running well.
I’m running 2.8.4 now, and the new version is for security fix.
Seems running non-mu WP is pretty easy to be upgraded – my another wpmu setup is still far away from current branch, I will check to see if I can fix it during the weekend.
Finally I got wipresenter installed – my E90 just cannot send file to my laptop through bluetooth, and stupid Psiloc didn’t offer the direct download of the small exe for Windows, so …
Anyway it’s working now, I didn’t try the presentation feature, but showing things from handset on the computer is pretty cool.
BTW, I was thinking bluetooth trechnology is pretty well standardized, but obviously it is not and seems won’t be in the future.
IT guy (actually I believe it’s an IT gal) is working on my laptop now to get MS Office fixed, it seems the problem came across from an accident upgrade or patch.
Anyway, this kind of upgrade is really bothering – why do they need original installation disc while upgrading/patching? Weird.
I’m still waiting here, seems it takes about 30 minutes to install it, and to make the environment clean, the orignal installation has to be removed followed by a reboot, so overall it takes about an hour.
Maybe it’s time to ask for a new and powerful laptop. ๐
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It was the only one phone call in the past couple of months regarding to production issue, I’m not sure if it is good or bad.
I was slow in thinking/responding now due to long away from handling this kind of problems :).
Now … Python time again, since it seems to be the easiest way to develope some leisure stuffs for my new E90.
So here are things to be installed:
Install pys60 to handset is pretty straight forward, except you may have to deal with certificate, etc. – check those Symbian forum please, I don’t think my solution is the best (allow to install any software and don’t check certificate at all).
Now, install ActivePython on Windows box by following instruction, then create a directory for ensymble (let’s say C:\Ensymble), unzip the openssl.zip to that directory (all 3 files in total), and then the ensymble_xxx.py – I changed the name to ensymble.py so that I need to type less whenever I want to use it. As the last step, put C:\Ensymble to your environment variable PATH.
After everything’s done, let’s try the first Python application for Symbian – pick an open source application from PyS60 Application Directory, and build it. I was using Magic Video as my first test, download the py file, put it somewhere and then run:
ensymble.py py2sis –uid=0x98765432 –appname=”MagicVideo” –caption=”Magic Video” –version=1.0.0 magicvideo.py magicvideo
you will get a .sis file in the current directory and that can be installed to handset.
Remember use uid >0x7fffffff, I didn’t pay attention to the warning message on the screen and this costed me almost half an hour to figure out why the application cannot be installed.
I heard that the team was super busy recently, but for the second day I came back from vacation, among all 15 people in this team:
Yea, we are super busy, the whole company is super busy.
BTW, I guess someone are working on job hunting now. ๐
It seems time to do some Java stuff again.
The new project may have to support both C/C++ and Java thinking of the popularity of (stupid) Java in the company.
So, let’s have some fun with Java.
Got a mail from MSN saying that they are going to stop offering free domain (registration and hosting) which comes from Windows Live.
It says I need to pay $15 a year to get private registration, hosting, and something else, I guess I don’t want it so just let it be.
Actually I believe Microsoft was wasting money – I register a domain a while back but never used it, at all.