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Cannot hibernate Windows XP machine "Insuffienct Resources Exist to Complete the API"

For me, this was happening on a Lenovo T61 with 2GB of RAM... and for every time that I tried to hibernate.

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article (KB909095) : The computer occasionally does not hibernate and you receive an "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" error message in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, or in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

This problem typically occurs when the computer uses 1 gigabyte (GB) or more of RAM.

Hotfix for KB909095

Update 9:41PM: Hotfix worked great.

Lotus revived? On Linux? To compete with Microsoft?

IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiative

This really made me do a double-take:

IBM announced a new partnership with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer "Microsoft-free" personal computers with IBM's Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software.

Lotus... as in Lotus 1-2-3 vs. Quattro Pro... partnering with Canonical... as in Ubuntu Canonical. The mind reels. Over and over and over...

Massive local mashup of news, events, flickr, Craigslist, Twitter, etc...

Alas, my town (Louisville, KY) isn't one of the city choice at the moment, but this could be the next evolution of web 2.0, social networking, mashups, however many buzzwords you can rattle off.

Fwix | Local

This is definitely something that I want to keep an eye on. There's serious potential here.

ScribeFire

I'm testing out ScribeFire, after finding out that the blogger bar for Firefox does not work in Linux. So far, this has been a pretty exciting experience. The setup wizard works great with Blogger... all you need is your blog URL and Blogger login to set up.

Will I ever use the Blogger.com interface for posting again?

Some promising links on growing an internal wiki.

From the site, Grow Your Wiki.

21 Days of Wiki Adoption

Top 10 Organizational Wiki Tips (and how to use them)

Of particular note from my experience is the following article:
Why
wikis should replace email for collaboration

the bigger issue here is that organizations have to look at how email is being used, and what activities would be better served by other tools, like wikis and blogs. Email has become a crutch in business communications because it’s being stretched far beyond its intended use as a communications tool. Organizations are trying to use it to collaborate and it was never designed for this, so it makes a very poor collaboration tool.

It always seems like formal documentation as a whole is abandoned in collaboration mode for a furious chain of e-mails. I would prefer collaborative documentation to not be embedding in one of 10,000 e-mails archived somewhere. In place of thread progression, how about version control in the wiki?

Part 4 in a 4-part series: Email overload killed the businessperson

Password protecting a website

Password protecting a website using .htaccess - this method pretty much requires shell access, but most web hosts have a web control panel interface to do this work. It should be noted that this isn't the most fool-proof method of protecting your data, and a configuration error can inadvertently open up your directory to the world.

An example for ICDSoft:

The option for this is called "Protect" on the Control Panel.



You can browse to a directory through this interface, and click "Protect It!" next to a specific directory.


From this interface, you can add users for the directory:

symfony | Web PHP Framework

Symfony an Open-Source PHP Web Framework. This would be a nice tool to use to set up a web site in.

Maybe I can finally rebuild my accompanists.org website.

Ubiquity for Mozilla web browser

Mozilla labs Ubiquity -- based on the Javascript programming language -- will allow users to type commands in an input box to launch a specific action, such as sending an e-mail.

Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality

Dutch National Supercomputer Huygens Beats Human Go Professional

I never realized that Go was more complex than chess in terms of number of potential moves throughout the game.

From the Wikipedia article on Go:

The area of the board is very large (more than five times the size of a chess board). Throughout most of the game, the number of legal moves stays at around 150–250 per turn, and rarely goes below 50 (compare chess, where the average number of moves is 37). Because an exhaustive computer program for Go must calculate and compare every possible legal move in each ply (player turn), its ability to work out favorable lines of play is sharply reduced when there are a large number of possible moves.

Indispensable and portable free stuff

I was listening listening to one of the old Geek Brief podcasts, and was reminded of a website with portable versions of applications that are very useful when supporting computers that aren't your own, or running from several different PCs.

Of particular note are the Development apps available.

Notepad++ is an excellent text editor based on the SciTE editor that comes with Ruby installations. It's not quite my old standby gvim, but then again, it doesn't need much customization to do its thing either.

Also included in the section is XAMPP, which includes Apache, mySQL, PHP and Perl. In addition, the FULL version package includes valuable extras like phpMyAdmin. I haven't experimented with either the lite or full package, but I will be reloading a PC soon, so I'll see then how much more smoothly this package makes setup for me.

SmartFTP is no longer free

Considering my web hosts do not provide shell access, a solid FTP client was invaluable for me in making updates and changing websites, since windows "web-based" ftp client is less useful than their console client for me (web-based does not work consistently with directories above user home).

I thought I had found a solid FTP client in SmartFTP. Kent J. Chen's weblog burst my bubble. However, he did offer up an alternative product, FileZilla. Downloading it now.

Unable to hibernate in vista?

I don't have Vista yet, but I've heard complaints of Hibernate not existing/working in Vista.

Hibernate not available in Vista or stopped working - from the article:

... The disk cleanup utility wiped out the file Vista uses to store a duplicate of the contents of memory when hibernating. Apparently, if that file is not present, the power features of Windows assumes hibernation is not available. Fortunately, the remedy is simple. On Windows Vista, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and right click on the Command Prompt icon. From the menu, choose Run As Administrator. Then, click OK on the UAC prompt so the command prompt will appear with full Admin rights. Keep in mind that we assume you are logged in with an account with limited admin rights to begin with, you just need to be elevated once UAC verifies what’s going on. If you are logged in as a regular user, log out and back in as a user that is a member of the Administrator’s Group or use the built-in Administrator account. Next, use the powercfg command to re-enable hibernation by typing the following command:

powercfg /hibernate on

Go back to the power settings in Vista and you’ll notice that hibernate is now an option (if it still isn’t, try a quick reboot).

This time, when I closed the lid of my laptop, it hibernated.