Onn Raves » leisure http://www.onnraves.com an Oracle consultant raves about P2ES, Python, Wordpress, photography and other things that he does on his Dell in Asia Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:28:07 +0000 en hourly 1 How to remove a Friend on Facebook http://www.onnraves.com/2009/08/03/how-to-remove-a-friend-on-facebook/ http://www.onnraves.com/2009/08/03/how-to-remove-a-friend-on-facebook/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:02:02 +0000 kam onn http://www.onnraves.com/2009/08/03/how-to-remove-a-friend-on-facebook/ read on →]]> I have a friend on Facebook is not really a friend. By that I mean, he is just collecting people who will agree to be his friend on Facebook and make himself seem popular. He is more interested in marketing himself than being a real friend.

If you have such a fiend for a friend and you want to stop being his/her marketing audience, follow these steps:

image 1. Find the fiend, 

image2. click on the fiend you want to remove. Then scroll to the bottom left corner and click on Remove from Friends.

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]]> http://www.onnraves.com/2009/08/03/how-to-remove-a-friend-on-facebook/feed/ 0 Shoul you plurk or twit ? http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/27/shoul-you-plurk-or-twit/ http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/27/shoul-you-plurk-or-twit/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:18:24 +0000 Siew Kam Onn http://onnraves.com/2009/04/27/shoul-you-plurk-or-twit/ read on →]]> When you are keeping a social life on the Internet you need to constantly update your vocabulary and make some hard choices, the latest of which is should you plurk or twit ?

6 Reasons Why Plurk Beats Twitter | MakeUseOf.com

Plurk is a microblogging platform.

Compared to Twitter it’s similar but different

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]]> http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/27/shoul-you-plurk-or-twit/feed/ 0 Will Second Life run on Dell Mini ? http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/27/will-second-life-run-on-dell-mini/ http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/27/will-second-life-run-on-dell-mini/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:54:27 +0000 Siew Kam Onn http://onnraves.com/2009/04/27/will-second-life-run-on-dell-mini/ read on →]]> Something to note if you care about running Second Life on your Dell purchase. Your life will be slow on a Dell Mini.

Direct2Dell – Direct2Dell – DELL COMMUNITY

Second Life will run on a Dell Mini 9, but it was rather slow and laggy. Esperto recommended something with a stronger video option like a laptop from the Studio or XPS families if you want mobile access.

]]> http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/27/will-second-life-run-on-dell-mini/feed/ 0 installing pycrypto on windows with easy_install http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/04/installing-pycrypto-on-windows-with-easy_install/ http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/04/installing-pycrypto-on-windows-with-easy_install/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:57:17 +0000 Siew Kam Onn http://onnraves.com/2009/04/04/installing-pycrypto-on-windows-with-easy_install/ read on →]]> If you have been hitting this error:

error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;

extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed,
you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing “-c mingw32″ to setup.py.

 

trying to install pycrypto on windows, http://blog.sadphaeton.com/2009/01/20/python-development-windows-part-2-installing-easyinstallcould-be-easier.html#comment-8 gives a great article on how to tell easy_install to use the mingw32 compiler instead of Visual Studio.

As of this writing, there was an error on the article which says you need to put a disutils.cfg file in ..python/lib/distutils/. The file name should be distutils.cfg.

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]]> http://www.onnraves.com/2009/04/04/installing-pycrypto-on-windows-with-easy_install/feed/ 0 How to download shared itunes Music library http://www.onnraves.com/2008/01/12/how-to-download-shared-itunes-music-library/ http://www.onnraves.com/2008/01/12/how-to-download-shared-itunes-music-library/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:46:35 +0000 Siew Kam Onn http://onnraves.com/2008/01/12/how-to-download-shared-itunes-music-library/ I often wondered where this function was in iTunes. It’s not. It’s in OurTunes.

downloads music from any shared iTunes library on your network to any folder on your computer

Featured Download: Steal Download Music From Any Shared iTunes Library with OurTunes

 

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