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Archive for September, 2007

Sync iCal with Google Calendar

As a Mac user at home and a Windows user at work, I had looked for a solution to sync my iCal calendar with my Google Calendar. I did find some ways to do it, such as taking advantage of iCalshare publishing, but never found one that did a two-way sync – that is, changes [...]

BigBelly to the rescue

I watched a segment (on the Science channel) about BigBelly, a solar-powered trash compacting garbage bin that’s currently being used in some areas of New York. Built and developed by Seahorse Power Company and priced around $4,500, it crushes garbage based on some algorithm into eighth of its size when needed; thus, reducing the frequency [...]

VMWare’s Open Virtual Machine Tools

Nice!  VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual  machine tools.  It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user [...]

Seven interesting computer facts

Here are seven “did you know” interesting computer facts (info consolidated from the CIO website): 1. What’s the closest computer to the North Pole? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Webcam #1, A NetCam XL, made by StarDot Technologies. 2. What’s the farthest computer from Earth? NASA’s Voyager satellite computes at the edge [...]

CLR has been unable to transition from COM context for 60 seconds

I was debugging an inherited multi-project WinForms application (from my co-worker and friend, Genaro Quismorio) today and came across this error twice (below), which was frustrating, annoying and very unproductive. This error occurred while stepping through a breakpoint [Debug.Break] in my WinForms code while looking for a bug. One fix I found on Google was [...]