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SMS

Notes on SMS (short text messages to/from cell phones):

Set Up SSH Service on Windows

Tested on Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Windows Domain network. The following instructions assume that you want to install to "C:\Program Files\OpenSSH" and that you want your SSH server to run under the user-ID "sshd" and that you'll create a home directory for sshd named C:\OpenSSH-server.  You'll need to edit where appropriate if you make other choices.

GnuCash from Quicken

I'm going to try GnuCash.  I know from previous experience that I'll receive a bunch of the following error messages when importing my Quicken QIF file.

Learning Scala

Here are my notes on learning Scala:

 

  •  Not a lot of tool support yet.  JEdit syntax highlighting works OK, as do some other editors. Eclipse plugin provides more capability, but it is slow.
  • Environment variables:
    • SCALA_HOME=/path/to/scala/dir
    • PATH (add $SCALA_HOME/bin)


Notes on the language proper:

Hello World:

Politics

"Politics is really just the art of getting people to agree on what they're going to do." (Unknown origin)

GrandCentral

GrandCentral is major cool, but sometimes I spend too long figuring out how to do something I've done before.  Here are some notes:

 

  • To change the announced caller name
    • Go to the Inbox, and select Call Log
    • Click on a non-anchor portion of the call in question.  It will show a received call panel.
    • Enter the text of the name you want it to announce.