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. [...]

And baby

Now that my kind wife has reenabled my mobile internet for me, it’s time to try out mobile wordpress again.

Now that my kind wife has reenabled my mobile internet for me, it’s time to try out mobile wordpress again.

Not that we need more convincing that Microsoft is run by a bunch of pragmatic douchebags, but…

Boycott Microsoft Bing
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Microsoft apparently doesn’t want to pursue the Google solution of having separate sites – one that produces generally legitimate results (google.com) and another within China that blatantly censors (google.cn). Instead, Bing figured it would have [...]

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 [...]

A completely useless flash app that is at the same time highly engrossing.
I recommend you visit and mouse around.

For most of 2009, I’ve been happily using my T-Mobile VPN service on my new phone, however as of this month T-Mobile has decided to BLOCK my device from their end based solely on the manufacturer of the unit, UNLESS I pay another $25 a month on top of the $20/month I’m already paying for [...]

I’ve been using my Android Dev-1 phone on T-Mobile for a while now. I’ve had the T-Mobile VPN service which is useful if you need to do non-trivial connectivity things with firewalls and VPN software. For some reason, in the past few days when I try to go online, I get a blocking [...]