Chris Searle

Wildly irritating.

Apple have added A2DP (stereo music) over bluetooth.

Time to grab that bluetooth adapter I stopped using after getting an iPhone from work.

Hang on - the scan/skip buttons (fast forward/rewind/change track) don't work.

I'm astounded that Apple have included support for A2DP without AVRCP (AVRCP is the profile for these skip/scan buttons).

You get a stereo bluetooth adapter to avoid having to have cables and to keep the phone packed away in a pocket or bag. But with this omission you can't really control the phone - just start/stop and volume.

Really hope that it was an omission rather than a concrete descision.

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I have to say I'm disappointed in NetCom today.

Apple have just released the iPhone 3.0 firmware. This includes both MMS and tethering.

Now - I have very little use for MMS - haven't used it much on previous phones. But tethering is a useful tool when you're stuck away from any wifi and need a brief connection.

Telenor have turned this functionality on by default - but NetCom did not appear to have done so.

Read on to hear what NetCom had to say ...

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Lenses

• Voightlander f3,5-4,5 19-35mm
• Minolta f4-5,6 28-80mm
• Minolta f4,5-5,6 70-210mm
• Minolta f1,4 50mm
• Tamron f5,6 200-400mm
• Sigma f2,8 105mm 1:1 macro

Flashes

• HS 5400
• HS 5600

Bodies

• 500 si super (film)
• Maxuum/Dynax 7 (film)
• Maxuum/Dynax 7D (digital)

Accessories

• Vertical Control Grip to Maxuum/Dynax 7D
• Cable release - short ca 0,5m - RC-1000S
• Cable release - long - 5m - RC-1000L
• Jessop Macro rings (suitable for the 50mm manual focus only) 13mm, 21mm & 31mm. Can be used together in combination.

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What is geotagging?

Geotagging is simply inserting geographic location data in a media file so that it can be placed on a map or otherwise related geographically with other images, services etc. It is the technology used by flickr maps, the Places categorization in iPhoto and many other services.

Aperture

Aperture is Apples professional photo management tool

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After running continuous integration with continuum for a long while (which works great for maven projects) I decided to take a look at Hudson. It can also do maven - but seems to have a larger range of plugins available. Of interest to me was grails.

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Having a very large external disk I wanted to limit Time Machine to use only part of it.

To do so - you can use the same technology as time capsule does - sparseimages.

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During a disk tidy I moved a whole load of iMovie Events from one disk to another (from within iMovie). This worked fine.

However - I had some external media (mp3 file, couple of stills) which I'd just dragged in from the Downloads folder - and having moved these I found that iMovie no longer could find them (yellow warning triangle on the audio media and black video where the stills were used).

To reattach these takes a little fiddling.

The information is in the imovie project file in the file called Project. This is a binary plist file.

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One of the systems that can be used for monitoring trends on a system is munin. It turns out that adding a graph to munin is reasonably simple.

There is a good guide on the munin site.

So - I need a plugin that will return the number of open files.

lsof -u glassfish | wc -l

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My glassfish process kept dying with "Too many open files" in the log.

I'm not surprised that it has too many - it has quite a few large applications running - but how to increase this?

ulimit -n shows that the user has a default of 1024.

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