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Autistic or not?

Nothing to do with J2EE or WebSphere but I came across a test for autisim today so I figured what the heck.

I figured I'd find out what my "system quotient" is and it is 47. So, way above average but not freaky. I measured using this test:

http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/SystemizingQuotient/SystemizingQuotient.aspx

I saw this while suring on digg.com today.

Here's another one, I'm 28 on this one, 16 is average.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

Anyway, a long day that's nearly over.

Bought a Sony T630 Phone

I just changed my cell to a Sony Ericcson T630 GSM GPRS phone. I bought it this week when I was in Brussels for 200 euros. The phone is ok but the software with it for syncing is aweful so far. I use Lotus Notes for my calendar/address book and email etc. I bought the full version of XDNTConnect to sync between notes and the phone. Its pretty bad. Super slow, it takes ages to sync. It seems to transfer a single calendar record per second when syncing. It also uses 'slow sync' all the time. I was hoping for much faster sync times, i.e. seconds.

The phone itself is nice enough. After some fiddling, I have GPRS working with TMobile, my provider, and while it's no speed demon it works.

XTNDConnect currently takes 30 seconds just to find the phone on a sync. The initial sync took about 4 minutes for me and incremental sync since are the same even when there are no changes! XTNDConnect always uses 'slow sync' mode also for incremental syncs which is beginning to drive me berserk. I don't know what these guys were thinking when they thought they could ship this but it's pretty aweful and I'm being kind. I may buy intellisync to see if that is any better because I can't live with this as a syncing solution.

Any way, as I play more, I'll post more info.

Wireless LAN Linux = LinuxANT

Just setting up a home system with Redhat 9 and couldn't get a linux driver for my Linksys WMP11 wireless PCI card. It uses a broadcom chipset and this doesn't seem to be readily supported. But, a company called http://www.linuxant.com have a system for using the Windows XP drivers on linux natively and it works very well. You install their software, provide the XP drivers from the CDROM to it and bingo, it works.

It seems to allow any WinXP NDIS driver to be usable under Linux. It's 20 bucks for the software but it's worth it. So far, it's working very well with my setup.