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The past few nights i’ve been struggling trying to get my VOIP working in the newly released Battlefield 2. Every time I would go into Options | Audio and enable the VOIP checkbox and click apply then go back to the Audio options it would be disabled. After hours of researching I finally have a remedy:

It’s apparently linked to the SoundMax sound cards which are commonly distributed with newer Dell PC’s.

1.) Update your SoundMax drivers to the latest release
2.) Run dxdiag.exe (Start | Run | dxdiag) and go into the Audio options and lower the hardware acceleration slider to “Basic”
3.) Load Battlefield 2 back up and enable VOIP (Options | Audio) and confirm it stays enabled

When I first started doing Lotus Notes/Domino I created a database to capture all of my “Notes On Notes”… Basically Hints, Tips and things I learned or crafted that would help me out in future projects. So with that said, here is Tip #1.

Call an Agent Using Javascript Passing Parameters

1) Create a COMPUTED TEXT field called DBServerPath and add the following code to the value:

"/" + @ReplaceSubstring(@Subset(@DbName;-1);"\\";"/")

2) In the onClick event of your button add the following Javascript Code (substitute “AgentName” for the name of the agent you wish to run):

var dBPath = document.forms[0].DBServerPath.value
location.href = dBPath + “/AgentName?OpenAgent&Parameter=WhateverHere”

NOTE: that in the agent the context is not the document that called the javascript but the agent itself so you cannot access the DocumentContext.

The Supreme Court today has handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file swapping, ruling that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks. In a unanimous decision issued Monday, the nine justices said companies that build businesses with the active intent of encouraging copyright infringement should be held liable for their customers’ illegal actions.

Does this mean the end to P2P? I think not… There are plenty of new encrypted and private peer-to-peer file sharing applications spawning monthly. Rodi, an anonymous Torrent application and several other p2p apps will succeed in Grokster’s demise..

What is so funny about this situation is just as the MPAA takes down 1 p2p app, 5 others spawn, some even offshore or opensource, immune to the MPPA and RIAA ridicule.

I feel quite bitter now having just recently booked our hotel room at the MGM Grand.

Rocky Oliver over at LotusGeek did a killer job quantifying Notes/Domino developers into a bell curve of such. So good infact, I have mirrored the data here:

A friend of mine asked me about my thoughts on the “breakdown” of skills and abilities of Domino developers - what is the spectrum of the skills and abilities of the Domino developer community? I have been giving this some thought, and I have come up with a table that describes the “Notes/Domino Developer Bell Curve”,
as shown in the graphic above. Before I send this back to my friend, I thought I would post it here for comments, suggestions, etc.

How do you see the Domino development
community breaking down? Did I miss a key skill? How is my percentage of
distribution? Keep in mind that there is a much larger development community
than we see interacting in blogs, etc. - I see this when I speak at conferences,
as there are still 40-50 people in the “Jumpstart: LotusScript”
sessions, which means we still have newbies coming into our community.

Help me tweak this table, and then I’ll
send it into my friend.

Thanks!


Rock

Microsoft was very very quiet on this one. This will be their second release after purchasing Giant software earlier last year.

Build 613 provides better documentation about unwanted software, fixes bugs that make it difficult to read alert messages and reduces the likelihood that its Winsock LSP removal mechanism will trigger unintended network disruptions.

download it here.

Yup, I’m not kidding. They even have different categories. I think it’s great. PodCasts or something similar to PodCasting is the future of news or talk radio and it’s about time someone recognize these talented individuals.

Visit and vote on your favorite PodCast Here

Ever search and search and search and find you never get the results you were looking for? Behold the answer to all Google searching: Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

Late into the game, Yahoo just recently opened up their DIY blogging site for everyone to try out. Although still in beta, it’s still pretty stable.. I won’t be switching anytime soon but it’s nice to see a mainstream anchor like Yahoo going that direction.

You can signup here

Friday, at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced platform level support for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) in Longhorn. This is suppose to drive many of the new feature-sets available in the upcoming Longhorn flagship OS for Microsoft.. We’ll see.

Longhorn will provide a common RSS feed list across all applications, common RSS data store for applications to access downloaded content, and an RSS platform sync engine. Subscribing to an RSS feed from within Internet Explorer 7.0 will be similar to adding a Web site to “Favorites.” An icon placed in a toolbar will illuminate when feeds have been updated with new content.

A South Korean baseball team Doosan Bears’ pitcher Park myung-hwan was caught earlier this week using cabbage as a cooling agent under his baseball cap. Apparently he had been using this cooling vegetable since last summer.

The Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) took action stating:

“We had to act because imagine if it happened in the World Series. If something drops out of the pitcher’s cap, it could put the batter off. Does the umpire call strike or ball?”

Park’s response: “I’m sensitive to the heat and my wife recommended I put frozen cabbage leaves under my cap to cool my head..”

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