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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

I upgraded few days ago and ran into problems

my wireless card based on atheros chip stopped working
it seems they’ve deliberatly removed madwifi support from wpasupplicant or something so I did two things, I downgraded wpasupplicant to hardy version and compiled/installed madwifi drivers from the project website

another problem that is still unresolved is the graphics
they’ve removed the old good driver, i810 and instead put intel driver for xorg
the intel driver is twice slower
I can’t watch flash movies any more, it’s that slow
and worse, if I hibernate from the X, I get garbled screen on next startup, nothing works
so I’ve found a workaround, I hibernate from text mode ;)

anyway, I noticed kde applications have better looking interface, a new sound manager (pulseaudio), no more gaim (now it’s called pidgin)…

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Achievo ATK Framework

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

few days ago I was writing this php/ajax application for a client and then I realized I needed a way to manipulate the tables

some tables were simple but some had two or three relationships

I thought about writing a generic class for the simple tables and doing other tables “by hand”

then I realized… maybe someone else wrote something similar

and I’ve found just that

Achievo ATK framework makes it really simple to create /admin for your client so he can manipulate his tables by himself

but that simplicity comes only after you’ve spent some time getting familiar with it

at first, atk coding seemed cryptic but now I’m into it and it feels natural

atk will make your life easier because once you understand it you can easily manufacture table interfaces

it has support for cascading deletes so you don’t have to worry about orphaned records

one thing I’d like to see is full UTF-8 support

it currently uses iso-8859-1 character set by default (english language)

I got it here

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fastcgi mod_fcgid

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I’ve been playing a little on my cPanel hosting trying to get maximum speed while also enforcing security at running php scripts

I first started with security running mod_suphp and while it worked fine it lacked the speed of the DSO php (mod_php)

so I read a thing or two about fastcgi and enabled it

I’m pleasantly surprised by the speed of the hosting

each user got its own persistent php application running requests (actually it’s limited to 500 php requests per php5 process by MaxRequestsPerProcess 500 directive)

I’m keeping an eye about the memory consumption but I hope I’ll be able to keep running with this setup

and while I got php running as the actuall cPanel user, apache is still running as nobody for other requests… hmmm… I’m using apache 2.2 with MPM Prefork… maybe I should try a different MPM?

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Are you rich?

Friday, August 8th, 2008

some people want the others to know that they are rich

really rich

they want it so much that they’ve spent 999.9 USD for a program that sits on IPhone home screen showing text “I am rich” and when activated it shows a picture of a glowing, large gem ;)

and that’s all it does

eight people managed to buy this thing for 999.9 bucks before Apple took it down from their store

999.9 is the highest price anyone can ask for their software on Apple IPhone store

why did Apple take it down? I have no idea

hey, if there are “smart” people out there willing to pay 1000 bucks for this then let them

and Apple has its cut since it takes 30% from each purchase

would you pay this much to show to the other people that ur rich? ;)

here’s the story

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Get Your Openmoko

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

it seems Neo Freerunner is finally beeing shipped to the distributors :)

for those who have no clue what Neo Freerunner is, it is a mobile phone running Linux

backed by FIC (First International Computer of Taiwan) it is finally going mass market

it is designed to rival the original Iphone

the phone is unlocked (works with any mobile phone network provider) and uses open standards

the hardware specs are 500MHz Samsung S3C2442 CPU, 128MB RAM, 256MB Flash, 4.3″ diagonal display in 640×480 VGA Color TFT LCD, 3D graphics, 2 3D accelerometers, audio, USB port, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth, GPS

the recommended price is 400 USD

I like it :)

read more about it at linuxdevices

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Google Street View

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Google made a new feature for Google Maps called Google Street View

basically you can see the street you selected, you can rotate view, read street signs etc.

the zoom could be better but it is still good

check it out at http://books.google.com/help/maps/streetview/

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Technorati verification :)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Technorati Profile

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Jamendo

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

wtf is Jamendo, you may ask

well some people want to look “smart” ;)

they invent names no one can understand (and you have to dig to find out) so to “be cool”

actually, these guys are just implementing a different business model

they made a website where you can listen to/download music for free

good for all of you listeners ;)

their business model OTOH (on the other hand) is to make you watch ads and for you to give donations

they’ve put a nice album at their website home page

take a look at what wiki says about them here

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KDE Ported To Windows / Mac OS X

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

This is good news. KDE is ported to Windows/Mac and the users of those operating systems will become more familiar with it.

Although some people think open source programmers should not waste their time on proprietary OSes such as Windows I still think this is a good thing.

The move was eased by using CMake build system. Also, it helped that Trolltech made Qt libraries GPL for non commercial projects on Windows/Mac.

Read about it here and at the KDE website Windows section.

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Solaris Express Developer Edition

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Few days ago, I got OpenSolaris DVD from a friend containing various developer tools and I decided to try it out.

The DVD I got is released quarterly and can be found here.

I dediced to try it out. The install process was simple but it lasted forever, I couldn’t believe it was over when it finished. Well actually it wasn’t really finished, because after booting it for the first time it took like 10 minutes to actually start the GUI.

OpenSolaris really isn’t a polished product. At least from a standpoint of a desktop user.

My screen was in the correct resolution, and the nvidia drivers were there but the refresh rate was like 50 Hz instead of 60Hz.

Next, I found out my network card was not working… I searched the internet for VIA Rhine II and found drivers here. Next, I found out resolv.conf file did not even exist ;)

I created one, populated some name servers and set up the default gateway to my router.

But again I was out of luck, dig tool was working but I couldn’t connect to any site on the net. With some googleing I found out I had to copy nsswitch.dns to nsswitch.conf

Wow, talk about a user friendly OS ;)

I found a good package repository run by the Blastwave guys. Check it out.

I named my OpenSolaris Horus. Horus was the Egypt’s Sun God at the time the pharaohs ruled.

Now, I’m running vncserver on Solaris that I use via vncviewer from my Ubuntu GNU/Linux laptop.

Here’s a picture of it through my vncviewer. I’m running fluxbox window manager btw :)

opensol.jpg

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