Epson Workforce 310 FAX error and fix

I received "0404" communication errors when sending to some FAX machines; when I set the send speed (V.34) to Off (14.4 Kbps) things worked better...

Appigo not found with iPod Touch and MacBook on same "network"

So the Touch (and iPhone for that matter) doesn't come with a todo manager. I was stunned. Appigo todo does the trick and synchronizes over a wireless network. However, there are times I'm using a wireless access point that doesn't allow DNS-SD (Service Discovery (Bonjour (zero configuration LAN))) packets to pass. Setting up the MacBook in an ad-hoc network mode works just fine; Airport, "Create Network...".

And as we're on the topic, where did the handwriting recognition go???  The Newton had it, and I dearly miss it...

Nessus, BT4, and Virtual Box

Nessus seems to believe it should mess with everyone's browser as follows:

<style>  
body {    
 margin: 0px; 
 overflow: hidden;
 background: #2b4e67;
}   

What's with hiding the scroll bars via "overflow"??? I had been running BT4 in VirtualBox under OSX, and the default is 800x600, not enough to display nessus. So, I wanted to make the screen bigger, no small feat. First

VBoxManage setextradata BT4 CustomVideoMode1 1280x1024x16

then add

vga = 0x200 | 0x160

to /boot/grub/menu.lst. Finally

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and reboot. Quite the complicated incantation for something a developer shouldn't have done in the first place.
<rant>
Why do developers do stupid things like specify overflow, point sizes, etc.? Do they really believe we're all going to run on a box exactly like theirs? What if I wanted to run the nessus client from my phone?
</rant>

OSX Services "Building" forever

Found this and it worked: Snow Leopard Services menu says it’s “Building…”

Logitect Orbit with OS X

At first, this didn't seem possible, but I found a hidden directory: http://www.ioxperts.com/downloads/Video/Beta/Latest/ and the IOXWebcamX-1.2-Log.dmg seems to work, even doing face tracking. I need to experiment some more to make sure...

upgraded ubuntu loses dovecot certs

ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ln -s /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem

or:https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/dovecot-server.html

The other major issue I hit was the machine refusing to boot with a VFAT entry in /etc/fstab.  Remove these before the upgrade, or you'll have to do what I did and boot a live Linux disk (BackTrack 4 was what I had to hand) and fix the fstab file manually.

MPI notes

http://www.lam-mpi.org/tutorials/one-step/ezstart.php
http://www.lam-mpi.org/download/files/7.1.4-user.pdf