Updated with new details below. Update2: Updated with more details on OCZ’s changes.
I’ve just shelled out a good chunk of money in buying an OCZ Vertex 3 240GB solid state drive (SSD) and it’s amazingly quick. So amazingly quick that I thought I may just have fallen into a coma when I had to temporarily switch back to my old mechanical hard drive and boot from it again. And this is only using the Vertex 3 on a SATA II interface – not even the SATA III it’s designed for. I actually just bought a new laptop with the intention (at least one of 
) of being able to utilise the drive’s full potential on SATA III, but I digress.
After having only had this drive for a week, I’ve noticed that there are firmware upgrades available from the OCZ website, and the Vertex 3′s firmware stands at 2.06 at time of writing. Now, you can upgrade this firmware (and upgrading did not erase my drive!) but it’s not the easiest if you’re like me and only have a laptop with the SSD as your only drive. Thankfully, a bit of trial and error on my part got this licked. Here’s a guide to how I did it.
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Update: You should check out wildcard.fixpersistentutilities – it’s a fantastic solution to problems like this. Many thanks to Nathan Van Gheem, the author of the add on. Check out the link and see how to install it (temporarily) on your Plone instance that needs its site manager cleaned up.
Leftovers are typically useful when they’re in your fridge at home. They mean you don’t have to mess around making lunch for the next day for work, and can just grab them, and walk right out the door. Now, leftovers in the zope.component SiteManager aren’t so nice, especially when some Plone products fail to remove what they’ve registered. The consequences of this are that you’ve got references left which will break things when you uninstall/remove the physical eggs/files. These leftovers would be ones would be mutated food that comes to kill you after you’ve thrown it in the bin, assuming we follow the same analogy. But how to fix them?
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I’m skipping actually quantifying the number of things to do because this post will undoubtedly get updated as time goes on. I’ve just updated both my computers (personal laptop and work desktop) to Ubuntu 10.04 from 9.10 and I’m very happy with how things have gone. That isn’t to say a few minor things haven’t annoyed me, such as Project Hamster removing its Day view for task management or Python 2.4 being dropped entirely, but overall, it’s gone well. Here’s my thoughts on what you should do as soon as you’ve made the jump (or installed).
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I may well be late to the party and a little late to celebrate, but I’ve just made the startling discovery that VLC 1.0.0 has now been released.
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