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

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.

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.

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

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.

I thought I'd take a look at Scala and the Lift Framework. Everything below is running in my Win2K VM with 512MB memory assigned to the VM. My Eclipse Workspase is K:\code.

Prerequisites

Suppose you have Cygwin installed on one drive, and you need to move it to another.  Just for grins, let's assume that you are going to move it using Windows Explorer (i.e. not using Cygwin to move Cygwin).  This is something that I have to do from time to time, because I work as a consultant, and I move from PC to PC pretty often.  When you do this, pieces of Cygwin break.  Here's where I keep track of the things I have to do after moving Cygwin.

1. cd ~
2. chown kevin:kevin *
3. chown kevin:kevin .*
4. chmod go-rwx .ssh/*

For Firefox, use file:///c|/pac/proxy.pac
For Internet Explorer, use file://c:/pac/proxy.pac

Which VMNet is Which?

• VMnet0 is for bridged networking
• VMnet8 is for NAT networking
• VMnet1 is for Host-only networking

DNS Failure in Guest

I was getting DNS failures in my Windows XP Guest most of the time at work, and some of the time at home.  I read numerous posts suggesting that VMWare's NAT DNS is flakey.  However in my case, the guest was simply timing out on DNS resolution.  To confirm that this is the problem, do the following in the guest: