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		<title>A bit of diNovo hacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently replaced my trusty UltraX keyboard and mouse with the Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop for Notebooks and i had a seroius problem with pressing the Sleep button every time i picked it up so i just had to disable that. The problem is that you can not disable it from windows if you are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently replaced my trusty UltraX keyboard and mouse with the Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop for Notebooks and i had a seroius problem with pressing the Sleep button every time i picked it up so i just had to disable that.</p>
<p>The problem is that you can not disable it from windows if you are on a notebook with ACPI based power management instead of APM and the drivers do you no justice.</p>
<p>And you only have the option of shutdown or sleep for the sleep button in the windows interface , but by directly modifying the registry you can set it to a third &#8220;do nothing&#8221; action , which i promtly did , it is a dirty hack but it serves its purpose (reg file attached , needs reboot after run).</p>
<p>Next thing was not so much a problem but a nuisance , the mail button mapped to outlook express , the email client nobody uses , so i figured i should at least make that start total commander , so i produce a 3 line app to replace the outlook executable with which starts total commander.<br />
(also atached , copy it to WINNT\system32\dllcache\msimn.exe then go to Program Files\Outlook Express\ and overwrite msimn.exe there too then create link.lnk shortcut to whatever program you fancy)</p>
<p>Besides the unconsistency in button placing of Insert and Del and the somewhat tiny mouse this is a good and confortable kit but it sorely lacks some serious key mapping features , just do not jump too soon at the bluetooth version , it seems to be affected by serious lag .</p>


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		<title>Corporate programmers get licence to hack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xtreme Programming or XP for short are &#8220;agile&#8221; programming methodologies are the spearhead of what are known as lightweight programming methodologies , and are getting more popular every day. They relate closely to opensource methodologies and are essentially a license to hack for the oppressed corporate developers so i can easily understand their joy and sympathize with these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xtreme Programming or <a style="color: #cc3333; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp.htm" href="http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp.htm">XP</a> for short are &#8220;agile&#8221; programming methodologies are the spearhead of what are known as lightweight programming methodologies , and are getting more popular every day.</p>
<p>They relate closely to <a style="color: #cc3333; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/" href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/">opensource methodologies</a> and are essentially a license to hack for the oppressed corporate developers so i can easily<br />
understand their joy and sympathize with these methods myself.</p>
<p>In my opinion , the agile xp method is nothing else but a definition ,standardization and enhancement of the developing methods that are<br />
used outside of the corporate bureaucracy monolithic methodologies , and that is buy itself a very good thing if those standards start to be used inside coporations , and is definitely something they have to thank the open source movement for.</p>


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