Archive for November, 2006

Strictly Fun Dancing with the Falcom Samba 55


November 28th, 2006

Is it just me or does everyone find the Falcom Samba 55 GSM Modem a real pain to set up? Loading the driver is OK, but trying to get the Mobile Phone Tools to install is a struggle.
I tried following the instructions on the CD to load the BVRP Phonetools, it seemed to an obvious [...]

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Give me a boost Boost


November 28th, 2006

I’ve not been programming full time since the end of 2002. Ah, those were the days…strong coffee and err RSI a plenty
I am just about to embark on a heavy duty bit of programming, likely to last a few intense months. I’ll fill you in about the reason why in another post.
Anyway, I’ve [...]

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You lucky people, yet more OSS


November 27th, 2006

It is nice to see the open source network management community is still in rude health. Another network and systems monitoring tool has popped onto my horizon. Don’t know how I missed this one, it looks a goodie!
Based upon the much underrated application server platform Zope, Zenoss sure does look the part. If the website [...]

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Why selling on the web is hard


November 27th, 2006

We are currently on our fifth full iteration of our website. And when I say iteration, I mean full gut wrenching, throw everything out and do it again iteration. That works out to over one full iteration per year.
We’ve used the simplest e-commerce system you can use, called Mal’s-ecommerce, through a PHP based cart and [...]

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No excuses now…you can talk Sensatronics too!


November 27th, 2006

Some of you may have noticed that we have been busy creating the Sensatronics Software Development Kit (SDK). So, what is the Sensatronics SDK and why have we created it?
Well, we figured that writing software to talk to the Sensatronics sensors was rather repetitive, especially when you need to write a number of different tools. [...]

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