Following my recent post regarding Silverlight, unfortunately I have hit disaster. When the audio starts, it sounds choppy with a double-echo or reverb. In short it is unusable. All other audio works fine, even on the same webpage, but as soon as you try and listen to a Silverlight widget it sounds terrible.
We have to be able to play Silverlight media on our two virtual Windows Server 2003 servers. This is completely unavoidable, because you first need to authenticate via an Active-X website, so any option of using Moonlight on Linux was impossible.
The problem that we had was that when we clicked on the Play Media button, there were two pop ups stating “This page has an unspecified potential security risk” followed by another stating “A problem was encountered with the media file specified.”
We have our file associations locked down using KDE Kiosktool, and yet it seems that one of our users has managed to change their file associations, despite them being locked down; which seems to be because the context menu is not locked down, enabling him to take the option to Open With an alternative application and select the checkbox to remember that association in future. The only way around this would seem to be to disable the context sensitive menu, at a significant cost in functionality.
I went to look for an article on fcheck, that I originally found on http://debaday.debian.net, only to find the site down, there is a related bug, but no news on where it has gone nor why. The debaday service was fantastic for finding out about useful packages, in fact that was how I learned about fcheck.
Then I ended up at http://news.debian.net/, and what do I see but:
I’ve just bought a new HP N36L Microserver, for £210 with £100 cashback. It came with a 250gb SATA, so I added a second 250gb SATA; so that I could have a simple software RAID array. I also added 2gb of Crucial RAM.
I have a mystery - I have two Debian Lenny servers both running the same version of davfs2 and the same version of openoffice.org. When you open an openoffice document, openoffice creates a lock file of the same name, but prefixed with “.~lock”. This file retains a copy of the document until you save and exit, whereon it is removed automatically.
The mystery is that, at one of our branches, it reduces size to 0, but is never actually removed; after which time the file cannot be edited until that lock file is manually removed.
We’ve seen the various plug-in computers recently, but this one looks very good value:
TonidoPlug [TND003SP1A03] - ₤65 : Tonido Store
Further to my recent post on the TonidoPlug the following has been sent to me:
Further to my recent post on the subject, I have now found more information on the Barclays Corporate website:
To access Business Internet Banking you need four things present at the same time:
We’re currently running fully managed ADSL 8mb Max Premium broadband connections at our two branches. The problem with this is that ADSL is asynchronous, the download bandwidth being around 7mb and the upload bandwidth being around 700k. We are finding that the 700k upload bandwidth is too small for sharing data between the branches, as the speed is then limited to the upload connection - 700k.
Today I had a meeting with a telecoms expert to advise us on our options, which seem to be:
