Cell Phone
OpenBTS – Your own cellular phone cell
Research Links
- GNU radio kickstarter project that started my interest in OpenBTS
- OpenBTS
- Wikipedia: OpenBTS
- A Cellphone Base Station in the Palm of Your Hand
- Running OpenBTS on a cell phone handset
Computing
Sysinternals Windows tools
SysInternals Tool Links
- RootKit Revealer
- SysInternals Autoruns
- SysInternals Main Page – has presentations that appear to be very valuable.
- SysInternals Process Monitor
Real Estate
Missouri Home Real Estate Auctions
Research Links
- Auction.com – this has some tricky stuff like occupants still in the house, no title insurance etc.
- Small house on Geyer – no occupant. Not behind in payments.
Computing
Instant Messaging Clients
Research Links
- MSN Messenger protocol – many open source clients
- Wikipedia: Instant Messaging
- Pidgin – compatible with a long list of chat networks – open source on source forge
Additional Links
- WeChat – has features very good for meeting sex partners
Design Tools
Orcad Schematic Capture and Board Layout Notes
Research links
- Download 16.6 Demo version – It is design size limited and includes a design example
- Cadence: learning capture – Orcad tutorial on the the cadence site. Video based and requires patience.
- Explanation of Orcad CIS ( component information system ) Wikipedia: Capture CIS
- PCB Library Expert Lite – simplifies footprint generation. Lite version is free.
- Yahoo Group: Orcad Library Sharing
- Ultra Librarian – helps with importation of footprints & symbols
- Franz Orcad Tutorial
- Kicad converted from Eagle Libraries
- Importing autocad dxf into Orcad
- Google:Orcad Parts making tutorial 424
Library Download Links
Methodology Example: Silicon labs methodology
- Download and install the Ultra-Librarian Reader (.exe file).
- Download the appropriate schematic file from the table below.
- Open the appropriate .bxl file; the Ultra Librarian software will open automatically.
- PCB/CAD export format using the Ultra Librarian tool.
Internet
Why WeChat is popular in China
- Some initial thoughts about the popularity of QQ's Wechat
- LINE in Japan is being used for hookups too.
This article tries to make the case why WeChat is popular in China and compares it with Skype. I think Skype lacks many features that the old AOL had and had in common with WeChat. It is essentially the hookup factor that Skype lacks.
Computing
Import Email Archives from Outlook Express 6 to Thunderbird email tool on Linux
Import / Export Email: Research Links
- Location of Outlook Express email archives
- Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution – this method worked well
- Installing Thunderbird on Linux
- Setting and changing email passwords – Thunderbird doesn't provide a way for a user to enter the POP/IMAP/SMTP servers password when configuring a account. ( Yep it confused me! )
- How to change Thunderbird stored password
- how to set interval to download email? – Edit > Account Settings > Server Settings under the particular email account in questions. Looks like everything is set to 5 minute default
- Can't delete a folder if Trash already contains a folder of the same name
- How to put copy of sent items in sent folder – Edit > Account Settings > Copy & Folder
- Email Filters
- Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
- how to update Thunderbird?
- how to sort incoming email into correct folders
- how good is the spam filter?
Summary of Effort
I had one issue with importing / transferring files over to my Ubuntu linux laptop. One of the subfolders had many subfolders of its own and did not show up. I imported from Outlook Express 6 (2004 ouch! ) again and copied the relevant sub archive into the right location on my linux laptop. At that point it did not show up on Thunderbird even after a restart so I manually made a subfolder in the correct location on thunderbird and when I went into the folder all the emails showed up. This was a little trickier than what I portrayed with that sentence. Actually when I tried to create the folder with the same name under thunderbird it choked and said "can not do it there is already a folder with that name". At this point I made a folder with SAMENAME-2 and then used nautilus file explorer to copy all the files over to the folder SAMENAME-2. At that point I could go back to Thunderbird and rename the folder to remove the -2.
It would have been better if Thunderbird had imported everything correctly. This is the sort of thing that can leave you with lingering doubt.
Email Account Setup Links
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