Nokia N900
After almost 3 years of Nokia E90 usage I ordered a Nokia N900. Imho it’s the only phone/MID worthy of replacing my E90. Ok; it’s bulky, heavy (the E90 is a brick too) and the OS is probably a bit rough around the edges, but it runs Linux (maemo), has a 800×480 px screen, 1 gb of RAM (of which 768 mb is swap) and a whopping 32 gb storage. I will miss Route66 though, not sure if Nokia Maps is capable of keeping me on track…
Can’t wait to get root on my phone 
buTTon Personal, linux Maemo, mobile, N900, Nokia
Virtual Pre
Update: Palm released the SDK, you can download a Linux, Mac Or Windows-SDK at : http://developer.palm.com/
The windows-version of the Palm Pre SDK leaked out last month; though still in beta it’s supposed to work, but unfortunately the installer itself is Windows only. Wine-to-the-rescue! I installed the SDK using Wine and checked the installed files. I found the emulator as a VirtualBox image in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Palm/SDK/share/emulator/images/sdk47, in windows it looks like it’s booted from a bat-file using several jar’s, but that doesn’t work on linux. So I added the virtual disk to the “Virtual Media Manager”, created a new virtual machine with 256 mb ram, added grub.iso as CD-rom and tried to boot the VM. Booting worked, kind-of; the bootmanager complained about “undefined video mode : 360″, if you don’t select a display-mode the VM will eventually halt with an error
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buTTon Javascript, Personal E97, emulator, leaked, Mojo, Palm, Pre, SDK, VirtualBox
I have Ubuntu 8.04 running on my laptop, and with Wimbledon coming up I wanted to install Moonlight , the Linux alternative to Silverlight, since Net5 (the dutch channel airing Wimbledon) only uses Silverlight (annoying!!!)
Installing Moonlight was quite easy, just go to http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/, click on the image under “2. Download the plugin” and Firefox will ask if it may install the Moonlight Add-on. But; Moonlight by itself is quite useless without the copyrighted audio & video codecs from Microsoft. Novell (moonlight’s daddy) can’t distribute those codecs in Moonlight itself and you need to install them after Moonlight has been installed. This is supposed to be easy, go to the Moonlight-website, rightclick on the notice at the top saying “Congratulations!! You’re running the current release of Moonlight” and select “install microsoft codecs”. You’ll need to accept that you’re willing to sell your soul to Microsoft .. eh.. the EULA and the codecs will be downloaded and installed.
However, after the download I got the message “Permission Denied“. Obviously some directory was off limits for me, but I didn’t know which directory. So I tried to install Moonlight and the codecs as root, gksudo firefox, which went fine. Next I started looking for files, where did Moonlight leave the codecs? In /usr/lib? /usr/share/firefox? I found it in the home-directory of root; /root/.mozilla/plugins/moonlight/silverlight-media-pack-linux-x86-5-1.so. Next stop; copy the .so-file to my own home-directory, but wtf? No directory /home/[me]/.mozilla/plugins? So.. i created the directory, and while I was at it, also created /home/[me]/.mozilla/plugins/moonlight, chmodded it to allow writing by me and tried to install the codecs; Success!!! And they actually work; the codecs:)
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buTTon Personal, linux, ubuntu firefox 3, microsoft codecs, moonlight, permission denied, ubuntu
Very cute and funny, yet friendly request to upgrade your browser
Please upgrade (by www.robotjohnny.com)
From: http://www.robotjohnny.com/
buTTon Personal funny, MSIE6, please upgrade
If you’re a programmer and have any sense of humour, you really need to read this
My personal favorites:
//
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 16
//
//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows
# To understand recursion, see the bottom of this file
At the bottom of the file:
# To understand recursion, see the top of this file
buTTon Personal coding humour
Hurray! Another step to annihilation of developers-nightmare Internet Explorer 6. According to this blogpost, and my own tests Facebook has ditched support for Internet Explorer 6.
IE6 showing Facebook (in WINE)
rant-alert : IHMO You would only use IE6 if ;
- You’re using an illegal version of windows and you’re not able to Windows Update, why would that be supported by anyone? If you’re too lame to buy a legal copy, switch to a OS that’s free (and stable, and secure, and looks better.. and.. and.. well)
- You’re at work and the ICT-dept. is lame and not doing their job (security blackholes)
- You’re a complete n00b and don’t know what windows-update is (you shouldn’t use a computer at all)
buTTon Personal facebook, ie6, Internet explorer 6
Finally I took some time to check out Wordpress.. Thought i’d give it a try and must say; I’m impressed.. So I ditched my own blog-software and installed Wordpress on a server which you are looking at right now.
I’ll try to post some snippets and more info on my WebPublishingSystem inbetween workrave-breaks!
buTTon Personal
