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Galaxy S2 Comments

I ordered a Galaxy S2 and it eventually arrived. It’s pretty nice, but there are a few annoying things with it that I wish I could change

  • It vibrates when it’s fully charged and will wake you up at 3am
  • It’s length of vibration is too long for notification messages.
  • There’s only “silent” or “vibrate”. I have to turn vibrate off in the menu to have silent. I’d like vibrate > silent > noise
  • There’s no notification LED. Wtf?
  • The home screen is Screen 1, at the far left. It should wrap around to screen 7 when I move to the left, but it doesn’t.

Just little niggles, other than that it’s a good phone and I’m enjoying it a lot

update:
Having used it for about a month now, and flashed new firmware and got a new launcher, i can say this is a great phone. Using launcher pro I have the home screens how i want, and the new firmware has stopped the random battery drain issues with wifi sharing. Now I am just waiting for 2.3.4

 

Trading Gold and Silver

Well, looks like the silver retrace has completed. I hope. Maybe I’ll trade out of my gold and into some silver and get it while it’s cheap. Not sure how long JPM can keep this up. Probably eternity, I’m sure they have friends in the right places.

I get most of my gold and silver at Bullionvault. It’s like buying it physically, but stored in a vault in a choice of locations.

Buy gold online - quickly, safely and at low prices

My own Symantec Stupidity

Having not looked at the SEPM console for a while, I failed to ntice that there were hardly any clients listed. Approximately 1000 were missing. Ooops. The upshot of this is that I discovered fixing this is a total pain. The problem began when I decided to load balance clients between our two management servers. However, I managed to do the following.
Make a typo in both of the server names
Enable SSL without an actual SSL cert

This took a long time to fix, mostly because I tried things suggested on forums before using my own brain. A lot of them suggested pushing out a new sylink.xml file to the clients to get them to update the server they conenct to. This had no effect. The file is never read from what I can tell. The registry entries didn’t change. I tried both of Symantec’s tools but after a few days of messing around with SCCM advertisements I gave in.

The simple solution for me, was to add a CNAME in DNS for the wrong server name, and point it to the correct one. Once they connected, they will pick up the new policy with the corrected server names. I also added the correct certificate in IIS on the SEPM server. I assumed it used its own server rather than IIS, but there we go.

DDWRT PPTP VPN 807

I’ve been getting an error 807 which caused some trouble. I read various conflicting documents on how to set it up correctly. What has worked for me is:
server ip -0.0.0.0
client IP(s) – 192.168.1.200-210
Chap-Secrets – username * password *
NB: Spaces in the chap secrets!

This worked fine for me, substitude the “client IP(s)” for a range that is ON your lan