[27 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
Interesting OSS links: Skype for Asterix / Wavemaker / AccountLabPlus

Haven’t had much time to go into detail with these but I think it’s worthy to take note of them
Skype for Asterisk has been released at last.

A new Skype for Linux Beta 2.1.047 has been released which fixes CPU problems with new PulseAudio and works brilliantly and also adds SMS support.
Also, I came across a very Rapid Application framework for building Ajax web apps called Wavemaker. They have an open source version and an Enterprise Version. Watch one of the videos where he builds a searchable client database in …

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[28 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

Very simply.
sudo dmidecode –type 17
This gives the following output:
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
Handle 0×1100, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device

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[16 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

Australian Magento Developers, Fontis have published a great Howto to help you setup an Australian store quire and to ensure you are compliant with ATO’s requirements
You can read Fontis’ Australian Magento post here.

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[21 May 2010 | One Comment | ]

Citrix has released Xenclient. A hypervisor designed to run on Laptops. There’s some excellent arguments for doing so in a corporate environment. I just read a nice, concise overview of Xenclient at Standalone Sysadmin

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[19 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]

One of those pain points in Magento is bulk uploading Categories. I know there’s this solution and also this bulk category solution, which are both basically the same thing. I actually feel more comfortable using Python and it also means that I don’t have to install Zend on my local machine to access the remote API.
One struggle I did get stuck on is the “Access Denied” message when connecting. A lot of people are having issues with it. My issue was that I had used the same username for my …

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[7 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]

There’s some instructions on ZTE forums on how to get this modem working and it *does work* but it’s convoluted.
I just created a file called /etc/modprobe.d/zte-mf633.conf
and added the following to it:
options usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0×0031
and then reboot with the modem in to test it works on a fresh boot. If you insert the modem *after* you have booted, you may have to unmount/eject the cdrom that it is detect as prior to it being detect in connection manager. The above may also interrupt with other usb devices, though my storage …