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I want to run Linux on my T60

Work/Geek

Currently my Lenovo T60 is reeeeaaaaly slow, my old Windows XP installation is slow due to way to many services running, a huge amount of software which I needed before, but no longer, installed and so on. To get the startup time down from about ten minutes to at least three I must do something drastically. And that includes running Linux and not XP anymore. But I have some challenges, I do have some software that I’m not sure how to run on Linux, this being:

  • Polar software for my Polar 725X. Currently no easy option for this, check out http://forum.polar.fi/showthread.php?t=76
  • Music Collector, only Windows available. And since the database is a proprietary format it is not easy to export and import the content in a similar software running on Linux. I guess I can use the option of exporting it all to XML and then try to import it, but some valuable information will get lost I’m sure. Anyway, Music Collector should not be that hard to run using Wine compared to Polar, since it does not need any IR.
  • Canon software for my Canon FS11. Think this would be the easiest to get around, but still – I do not know how yet.

All other software I’m using on Windows will have competitive Linux-software, so apart from the above mentioned challenges I’m better off with Linux.

But, there is always a but. Tried Ubuntu before, but got into trouble with the wireless card on my T60. Hopefully this is not a problem anymore thanks to the Intel Wireless Wifi Link-project. The driver is supported in mainline kernel so this should be no problem anymore.

If you have any input to me on my issues, plz contact me 🙂

They made it!!!

Music

How cool is that? Jon and Tracy Morter made it this year, making the X-factor winner not being #1 on the UK charts this Christmas. And what a song they choosed: “Killing in the name” with Rage Against the Machine. The lyrics of each song from RATM is worth taking a closer look at, since they are very political influenced.

Written about revolution against corruption in society, “Killing in the Name” is widely recognised as the band’s signature song, and has been noted for its distinctive guitar riffs and heavy use of strong language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_in_the_Name

Rational Automation Framework

Work/Geek

Have spent some time the last week teaching myself the basics of Rational Automation Framework (RAFW) together with WebSphere Application Server 7. The RAFW-version I’m using is just an old beta, so it misses some features and have some bugs which the current release 7.1.1.2 have taken care of.
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WAS 7 have a new feature which enables you to provide a custom name BASE application servers. Not the most important feature, but using a more meaningful name than the default “server1” can be useful. But the beta-version of RAFW did not have this feature, so at first I thought “close, but no sigar” until Scott Bybee at Ascendant encouraged me to try to create a custom action providing this feature. Spent two days figuring this out until I was able to create a custom action providing this feature. It was really all about understanding the ANT-scripts RAFW is using, when that was taken care of it was really just a walk in the park to adjust the action into providing the custom name feature.

This was not a big issue, but the main purpose of doing this was understanding how to create a custom action in RAFW, which might be useful for other more critical features or needs which out-of-the-box RAFW does not provide.

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