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Vista, HP and drivers for a HP Photosmart 7150 June 29, 2007

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At last HP have released basic drivers for the HP Photosmart 7150 for Vista.

They describe these as “basic” – I’ll report progress later.

This download includes a Print Driver only. This driver makes it possible to use the basic functions for the printer. HP will not be providing a Full Featured Software and Driver for this product; therefore, some functionality may be lost when you use this product with Windows Vista.

Driver is available via www.hp.com – the direct link is here.

Collanos 1.1 update June 27, 2007

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Back to Collanos 1.1 – and the good news is that most of the bugs seem to be ironed out.

I’m now sharing several GB with my team; performance is good if tweaked.

Mini Metro abuse – it’s all for charidy June 26, 2007

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cut out

My friend Laurence Pitt (and one of his friends) are driving this delightful Mini Metro from London to Prague. Via the Alps.

It’s all for “Charidy Mate” – so go give a few pounds – http://www.justgiving.com/beryl2prague

Building panoramic pictures

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I’ve been asked a few times which tools I use to build the panoramic pictures.

I use Hugin with autopano-sift for control point generation. I also use enblend for smooth blending. 

There is a great manual online now at the Hugin Wiki – http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin

ZENworks Configuration Management – open beta June 24, 2007

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I spent some time this morning on the forums for the ZCM open beta.

A frequent comment is regarding downloading the ZCM ISO – it’s 4GB in size.

I recommend testing the md5 hash – I use Digest IT 2004.

3M Privacy Filters June 23, 2007

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I wrote last year about the 3M Privacy Filters; I’ve not worked with my laptop and confidential data on a flight in over three years.

I recently purchased the filters for my team; I must say I am impressed. They are unobtrusive – and really work.

PGP and my brick of a laptop June 15, 2007

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Somehow my PGP passphrase got corrupted; there’s no way back.

PGP support tried – but my brick of a laptop needs a rebuild.

I was disappointed at how seemingly fragile the passphrase piece is; the support guy at PGP said he’d never seen it before.

Hmm.

Back to a new build; if it happens again I’ll be somewhat upset..

Laptop fun June 12, 2007

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Somehow the SATA drive in my new Thinkpad is screwy. The surface test is good; but PGP Whole Disk Encryption doesn’t like it. It doesn’t recognise my passphrases.

I’m back up and kinda running on my ‘old’ ATA drive in my new laptop; it’s faster but the drive is slow and I’ve lost a little data.

I’m going to get a USB-SATA enclosure and see if I can restore the drive.

Want to be a ZENworks Product Manager? June 8, 2007

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We’re growing!

There are a few open opportunities within the ZENworks Business Unit for Product Managers.

Ideally we are looking for people who can ‘hit the ground running’.

If you need any additional information – or if you want to apply – get in touch via the Novell email address.

[Edit - the role would probably be based at one of our ZENworks Development Centres - namely Provo, UT, Boston, MA or Bangalore, India]

Honey-dos for Grandpa June 7, 2007

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My usual list of housekeeping:

All in a days work.