Planet SoC

Mouse scrolling in Safari on Windows isn’t working on my ThinkPad T61p; there’s no way to scroll using the TrackPoint, or the TouchPad (pretty odd you might think).
Anyway, I’ve found a workaround:
Open C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\TP4table.dat and add:
; Safari
*,*,safari.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,1,9
A piece of the file should look like this:

; Opera web browser
*,*,opera.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Google Picasa
*,*,picasa2.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; OpenOffice.org
*,*,soffice.bin,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Windows Mail
*,*,WinMail.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Corel Quattro Pro
*,*,QPW.exe,*,*,*,WheelVkey,0,9

; Safari
*,*,safari.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,1,9


There has been a wonderful Google Summer of Code for me, and for Openmoko Inc. I still remember the ‘Congratulations!’ email received from Google that announced me that Openmoko selected me for the accelerometer-based gestures project (out of the 13 people that applied for this project).
It seems like I’ve passed the final term evaluation, otherwise I couldn’t have uploaded my code to http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-openmoko/; follow this link to see, and download what the other nine students created for Openmoko’s Neo Freerunner. That means I’ve been a successful participant…

Knight Foundation has launched the third year of the Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange. The deadline for applications is Nov. 1, 2008.

A simple online entry form is available at www.newschallenge.org.

The National Academies have released “Drinking Water: Understanding the Science and Policy Behind a Critical Resource”. It is a free booklet designed to give the public a comprehensive introduction to drinking water issues.

I’ve just found some amazing free fonts; take a look at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/.

Yep… Can you believe that?
The battery is manufactured by SONY, and we all know how well SONY batteries work (yeah, right), and the Power Manager says “Your battery can store 49% of its original full charge capacity”. Regardless the 49%, if I remove the power cord, the computer dies within a few minutes. The battery was first used on 2007-10 (Power Manager displays this, and I can confirm that I’ve received it in October last year). The battery has one-year warranty, so Lenovo should replace it.
We’ll see how that turns out; I’ll give Lenovo Romania a mail, and a call tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I’m in Slovenia, but still, when I’ll return in Romania on September 22, it would still be in warranty…

Yep… Can you believe that?
The battery is manufactured by SONY, and we all know how well SONY batteries work (yeah, right), and the Power Manager says “Your battery can store 49% 46% of its original full charge capacity”. Regardless the 49%, if I remove the power cord, the computer dies within a few minutes. The battery was first used on 2007-10 (Power Manager displays this, and I can confirm that I’ve received it in October last year). The battery has one-year warranty, so Lenovo should replace it.
We’ll see how that turns out; I’ll give Lenovo Romania a mail, and a call tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I’m in Slovenia, but still, when I’ll return in Romania on September 22, it would still be in warranty…

The battery is manufactured by SONY, and we all know how well SONY batteries work (yeah, right), and the Power Manager says “Your battery can store 49% 46% of its original full charge capacity”. Regardless the 49%, if I remove the power cord, the computer dies within a few minutes. The battery was first used on 2007-10 (Power Manager displays this, and I can confirm that I’ve received it in October last year). The battery has one-year warranty, so Lenovo should replace it.
We’ll see how that turns out; I’ll give Lenovo Romania a mail, and a call tomorrow.

The battery is manufactured by SONY, and we all know how well SONY batteries work (yeah, right), and the Power Manager says “Your battery can store 49% 46% of its original full charge capacity”. Regardless the 49%, if I remove the power cord, the computer dies within a few minutes. The battery was first used on 2007-10 (Power Manager displays this, and I can confirm that I’ve received it in October last year). The battery has one-year warranty, so Lenovo should replace it.
We’ll see how that turns out; I’ll give Lenovo Romania a mail, and a call tomorrow.