Wet Nokia E71 Reset for idiots

If like me you are an idiot and you decide that it is a good idea to take you brand new Nokia E71 phone on a very wet Motorcycle ride. You to will likely discover in the Cafe at the other end that you have an very wet phone that no longer turns on. If this sounds like the brain dead sort of thing you would do then try the following.

Step 1
Take the battery out and put the phone in the airing cupboard for a couple of days.

Step 2
Turn it on.

Step 3
If after this it says "Phone failed to Start up - Contact retailer" try holding down the green button the 3 and * button (don't bother holding down the Function button that you would normally use to get numbers) and turn the phone on with the power button. Keeping holding the buttons until the phone boots into the startup wizard. If you lucky you will be back at a blank phone.

Step 4
If your even more lucky you will have synced your contacts with another computer or server and can just re-sync them to get your numbers back.

Step 5
Don't be such a fool again.

Synergy OpenSolaris

I've been a big fan of Synergy for years and getting it to compile on OpenSolaris is just a question of installing SUNWxorg-headers:

Grab the Synergy source and unpack then cd to the directory and install the SUNxorg-headers:
james@ickle:~/Download$ tar xf synergy-1.3.1.tar
james@ickle:~/Download$ cd synergy-1.3.1
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ pfexec pkg install SUNWxorg-headers

then it should compile as normal:
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ ./configure
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ make
james@ickle:~/Download/synergy-1.3.1$ pfexec make install


As an example here is my synergy config file:

james@frank:~$ cat /etc/synergy.conf
section: screens
ickle:
frank:
douglas:
meta = alt
end

section: links
ickle:
right = frank
frank:
left = ickle
right = douglas
douglas:
left = frank
end

The meta = alt line under douglas is to make synergy play nice with a Mac as a client.

The result is three machines with one keyboard and mouse.

x40 opensolaris

Have been playing with OpenSolaris on the laptop again and, have discovered that the although SpeedStep is not supported on my old Dothan Pentium M using the Solaris Speedstep drivers. The frkit seems to allow the acpi to combine with the Gnome CpuFreq to step my CPU successfully.

So now I have CPU speed stepping which stops my laptop toasting me to death when i use it under OpenSolaris.
Still waiting on 6644080 to be fixed in build 95 so I can see if suspend will work though.