Well now that I have all the tag-lines out of the way. I figured I would just share my simple help for installing the new Firefox 2.0 (released today) for Ubuntu … well you already know the rest.

To begin at the beginning. You need to create your .mozconfig file. Your best bet is just put this in your home directory. You can scrutinize the following, or just accept it as is, but this is my .mozconfig file.

The next item of business is of course to go download a copy of the new Firefox source (yes it’s early enough that we are going to have to compile it, if you haven’t already guessed that).

I don’t want to direct anyone to any particular FTP as apparently there has been some concern about this lately about bandwidth. Simply find a copy for yourself and extract it into your favorite build directory.

You are only going to need to write two more commands after you’ve finished extracting the files (from inside the mozilla directory in your extraction folder).

Enjoy!

Okay. I’m going to take the reponsibility to post this because it seems that no one has even posted this error yet. We are currently running Business Objects XI on Linux. We are even doing it on AS3 and not the support AS4. So some unexpected errors will likely crop up now and again. I keep seeing this very odd issue re-appearing and haven’t yet figured out where it is coming from but I’ve figured out how to fix it. So I figure I’ll post it with the hope of helping someone else (and my forgetful self). The errors I’ve seen:

• Account Information Not Recognized: Server not found or server may be down
• Failed to get auditing data source name
• Unable to read the database connection string from the registry

So what I know about the first one. This indicates that the server CMS as they call it isn’t running, typically I think this happens on port 6400. You can verify this is running or not by checking it with netstat. If it isn’t then a portion of the startup script failed to start the CMS. I think this has something to do with the fact that BO is installed with a particular username and that this username is not the one responsible for the startup scripts, that’s roots job.

So to fix this initial issue I’ve tried running the ccm.sh script only to have it tell me everything started when it quite clearly hasn’t. To fix this I’ve run the cmsdbsetup.sh script provided, the purpose of this script is to fix the connection script and get a connection to the database. I have noticed, however, that when it asks for a ‘friendly’ name for the CMS I’ve given a name containing uppercase letters. After getting the error message I’ve subsequently searched for a file with that servername.cms. Only to find it in all lowercase letters.

Intuition tells me to run the script again but this time provide it with a lowercase name. Bingo, it goes through. I have no idea why their script presents me with the ‘correct’ name, the one I provided last time containing the caps but then later ignores this when creating the file. I then choose the ’select datasource’ and provide the correct username and password for the database. This shouldn’t have to be done but alas I do it again.

After this running ccm.sh as the user which BO belongs to starts the cms correctly and we are up and running again. Now I just need to figure out what’s causing this problem in the first place. I hope I’m not going to need to modify their scripts, only because I shouldn’t have to.

Well still waiting for my laptop to be fixed so I never got around to posting my items from SIGGRAPH. In the interrum I’ll share all that I’ve discovered about the T509.

Lets start at the beginning. How to unlock the T509 and let you roam free in the world using any SIM card you wish.

Now lets go over what these mean, the first code selects the network lock, the second code deactivates the lock and the final code displays the lock status and should inform you that all of your locks are currently undone.

So now you are free to roam about the world using any SIM card you choose. Of course some services like T-Zones or equivalent will not allow you to use them once your phone has been unlocked. These may be circumvented simply by changing some settings on your phone or re-activating the network lock.

I’ve also found this code to be useful:

This is the hardware test mode which allows you to verify speaker and microphone functionality, as well as the camera, etc. Not to mention there also is this very handy feature which allows you to increase the speaker volume on your phone. So for those of you complaining that the t509 is too quite, consider this your solution. Of course I’m not going to tell you what settings you should change it to because I haven’t played with it myself, the onerous is on you to do it yourself or do a google search to find someone who has.

I have verified that all of these codes do in fact work on the t509 at least with whichever software revision I have on my phone. I’ll look that up. I also have a whole slew of other codes but which I have not yet tested, I’ll see if I have time this weekend to evaluate them and update this post.

Lastly I’ll cover (until I verify a few codes) how to create your own ringtones for transfer to the phone via BlueTooth. Unfortunately it requires you to ‘buy’ a piece of software. Quicktime Pro to be exact. After installation of QTPro you simply open the MP3 sample you would like to use and follow these instructions:

After that transfer the 3gp file over to your phone using BlueTooth and you will finally have the option to set the ringer as a ringtone.

Enjoy the phone.

I’m sure those Digg fans of you out there have recently stumbled across this link recently. This guy is spending his time and certainly his money. Producing some just stunning infrared photography. It looks like he is mostly doing nature scenes right now, but my god, they are gorgeous.