Paralipsis

If you’re running eclipse galileo SR1 on linux along with ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala), then you MUST launch the eclipse script with GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 set.

If you’re just interested in whether the currently running system is 32 or 64 bit, then ‘uname -m’ will tell you either i686 or x86_64 depending on whether you have 32 or 64 bit cpu.
Unfortunately if you want to know if the system *could* be 64 bit, you need to check the cpu flags. [...]

A while ago I purchased some Radio Shack USB scales on clearance for $5 each. I had always intended to get around to futzing with them but haven’t until just last night. Linux made it way too easy.
Plugging it in, I see the device identifies itself as some quasi-proprietary HID device.
Bus 002 Device [...]

I recently tried the beta of Heroes Of Newerth and it was very fun. Not being a Warcraft 3 player I was completely confused by the mechanics and gameplay, but I was able to go a few rounds online.
The best part, hoewver, is that they are developing a native Linux, Mac and PC version. [...]

If you’re using eclipse and find yourself getting the following errors:
Cannot connect to keystore.
java.io.IOException: This trust engine is read only.

It’s probably related to certificate installs (such as that needed to complete the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse install).
After doing that, try running keytool -list, if you get an IOException about an invalid keystore, then delete ~/.keystore
The [...]

Wow, I didn’t know that you could enable multi-touch support using the synaptics driver in linux. I really need to try this out on my laptop. Out of the box running ubuntu 8.04 it does the edge scrolling but sometimes that kicks in when I don’t want it to, so being able to [...]

After searching the forums and the Internet I’ve ascertained that there is no current support for vpnc on the G1. I don’t know if the ARM processor will have trouble keeping up with IPsec, but now that I’ve done a few test programs my next task will be to investigate building vpnc.

I may be really dumb, but it took me forever to figure out how to simply get an app installed on a physical phone. When I finally found out the tools to use, I was getting errors like the one below when I tried to actually copy the app over.

$ adb install ~/sandbox/HelloAndroid/bin/HelloAndroid-debug.apk
123 KB/s [...]

I held off for as long as I could before purchasing an Android phone. Frankly once they offered an unlocked restriction free developer version, it was hard to resist.
Next is to get the build environment working and start tinkering with the OS. Top on my list is figuring out if vpnc can be made [...]

There’s really nothing like some new hardware to get the blood pumping. I’ve been converting my sad, old, NFS + LDAP serving cluster over to a fancy new Kerberos + AFS + LDAP + XEN environment. Virtualization is truly awesome, being able to create and reboot hosts at will without concern for the [...]