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The Update makes it worse

jaymartinez — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:59:20 +0000

Here is a first for me. I am currently running ubuntu 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’ using a Dell Inspirion 1501 System. The machine has a wifi card based on the broadcom 4313 chipset. Upon successful install of the system the additional driver manager comes up.

ignoring the whole freedom thing (in this case not having propriertary drivers loaded) i go ahead and load the broadcom sta drivers listed to update what is already working, perhaps there is some showstopper bug i think to myself. After finishing everything I reboot, and upon logging back in to the system i find out i have no more wifi. Completely disabled.

After some investigating online and trying many different “solutions” nothing helps. I go for broke and call up the additional driver manager again and remove the update. On reboot the wifi works again. If this was some wonky new beta driver from some joe out there in an attic of a small house i would say pffft stupid dev. But this update comes straight from canonical. So you would have thought it would just work.

Live and learn….

The not enough marketshare excuse

jaymartinez — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:24:54 +0000

This post was to long for a tweet, so here you go.

I won’t hide it i am a huge WP7 (Windows Phone 7) fan. Fell head over heels for the OS when I purchased the HTC Trophy from Verizon. I wont lie since then i have grown tired of the hardware but the OS still has me. Ok that’s out of my system.

Alot of the big name apps out there, Path, Waze, Instagram etc. Won’t play nice with Windows Phone because as many people say “not enough marketshare”. Well golly guys and gals how is wp7 supposed to gain a footing at all in this other OS world when to quote Robert Scoble “It’s all about the Apps”.. People will use a phone if there apps are there, the more apps that are there the more the marketshare will increase.. I don’t understand this excuse, everyone else waits for the other guy to make a showing first if they do well then maybe I will go… blah blah blah. So no one ends up going and then the others say “see, no marketshare, no one wants wp7..”

WELL DUH..no apps, no use.. it’s just frustrating to see this.. sorry microsoft, ya finally did good and everyone is to shocked to see it.

- jay

RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011

jaymartinez — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:17:00 +0000

The world has lost a true visionary. A true hero to many, a man beyond his time to the rest…

Rest easy Steve.

Apple – “Let’s Talk iPhone” – Prediction

jaymartinez — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:00 +0000

hmmm perhaps

IOS 5 and yes again

Tim Cook saying the word iphone for the entire event.

That is all…

Even before Apple ….

jaymartinez — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:57:00 +0000

I just got the latest ginormous iPhone.. atleast as per Spotify… look at all that space!

Spotify Tip: Genre’s

jaymartinez — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:26:46 +0000

Tired of typing in names of artists or songs you want to hear and just want a random list of music from your favorite genre to listen to?

spotify has you covered!

go to the search bar and type in genre:GENRETYPE (quotes around genre's with more than one word)

not sure what genre you want to listen to? Spotify supports over 900+ genre's

check them out here

Today’s Must Share – Quitter by Jon Acuff

jaymartinez — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:37:00 +0000

I found this just now.. like 5 minutes ago and I have watched it like 6 times.. Yes you can say its just a book trailer, but the msg it holds is epic.

Book has been purchased and will begin to consume shortly…

Get yourself a copy TODAY!

Spotify Helpiness

jaymartinez — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:48:20 +0000

Hey folks,

This post is being done because I told this to someone else and they had no clue about this, so perhaps you reading this don't either.

If you supply spotify with your facebook credentials it will automagically put in your sidebar your friends who are using spotify as well. But how about adding people who are not in your facebook to spotify…

Step 1. go to your search box. and enter in spotify:user:USERNAME

that will bring up the person's profile page with their published playlist .. you will see this across the top:

Step 2. Click Add USERNAME and that is that…

Every so often you may see:

simply means the person is not sharing anything yet..

That's all hope that helps someone out there…

Linkedin Naughty-Ness

jaymartinez — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:56:00 +0000

So I saw in the news that Linkedin had went ahead and been naughty and opted in over 100 million people into giving them permission to use there images/names etc in social advertising. I said peshaw Linkedin bad, bad how could you.. I went ahead and checked my settings.

In case you have not checked.

Top right hand corner when you login should be your name .. go there and click on settings
On the new page click on account towards bottom left of page. then to the right of that you should see manage social advertising.
Click that then uncheck the next box and boom no more naughty linkedin games.

So yea mine was not checked to begin with.. so then why do i see this every so often? Unless I am missing the point…

anyone, anyone?

Soiled of War

jaymartinez — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:29:04 +0000

Today was a day like any other.. Started with getting the kids diaper changed and prepping them for the days events. My son has never really been that good at getting changed unless its with his mom and then sometimes not that either.

Screaming and kicking almost like a war really, just to get the dirty diaper off and then the new one on. That is until today,

when a glow worm took flight and was used as a weapon…

he missed, i glared, and he smiled.

the end.