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We recently got a Samsung NC10 Netbook for my wife. It’s a big hit – but I was getting driven round the wall by the ‘music’ that kicked in 10 minutes after the lid was closed.

Googling about this turned up a similar compaint on a forum but with no-one replying with a solution.   Eventually however I stumbled across the answer – the music is part of the default screen saver (’imagine digital freedom’ – though I’d say ‘imagine you are in an elevator’ would have been more appropriate) … so is disabled by changing screen saver to any of the other options (via Properties on the desktop).

hth

kdw

As a postscript, I tried to do the decent thing and post this Gem Of Knowledge as a response on the forum I mentioned – but it turns out that forum (Digital Spy Forums) wants £5.00 from me to register – on the basis I use a gmail account and they need to keep the bots out. That’s a shame because keenness to be a responsible netizen saw me through filling out a registration, but two pint’s worth of silver is a step too far.  Thanks goodness for blogs and search engines.

I’ve just had a fun hour with the curse of the ‘Waiting for Flash Player to connect to debugger’.

I’m on OS X on my brand-spanking-new Macbook Pro, and Flash Builder suddenly stopping launching my app – in debug or plain launch – which was starting to take the shine off of what should have been a happy day.

There’s lots on this problem about the place – with quite a few different causes. In the end I solved my particular issue with something not mentioned in any of the posts I came across – my html-template folder needed to have the flex framework swf (framework_3.3.0.4852.swf – which was copied from frameworks/rsls under the SDK) in place.

Hope this helps someone else, kdw.

So, after way too long, here we go, blogging.

Cue a silent fanfare

Here’s looking forward to ‘putting something back’.