I just got up and running with Fedora 11 after Ubuntu finally pushed me over the edge. Every update seemed to break something else for me.
But anyway Fedora is great, save one small caveat – I couldn’t run any 3rd party 32bit applications. Ok, make that one huge caveat. Consider some critical apps like Flash, or Android SDK that just wouldn’t fly. Rather than downgrade my distribution to the 32bit flavor (which too would solve this dilemma) I opted to keep my 64bit distribution and just add the needed 32 bit binaries.
SO you want to install Android SDK, or another 32bit app on Fedora 64bit? Read on!
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QueueMan the Open Source Netflix queue management tool for Android Devices
QueueMan aims to be the Open Source Android application for Netflix subscribers. And it has already gotten some great reviews.
Netflix application for Android devices (Nexus One, G1, Droid, Eris, others)
Isn’t it adorable!
Features
- View current Disc and Instant queues
- Search Netflix catalog and Add new movies to Instant and DVD Queues
- Re-order or delete existing movies
- View movie details (Year, rating, Synopsis, etc)
SAX, or Simple API for XML has grown to be the standard in Java XML parsing. Numerous studies show how its performance, in the majority of circumstances, beats others such as PULL.
Does that mean you should just bang out a custom handler and expect solid performance, hardly.
This article has only two tips, but it can have a huge impact. read more…
So you host 13 domains on one server and want SSL certs for each domain. The cost of unique IPs is an obstacle indeed, but what if you didn’t need any unique IP addresses?
IMpossible you say? Not with the release of Apache 2.2.13!
I stumbled on this nice little feature called SNI (or Server Name Indication) that allows multiple domains to share an IP and implement SSL without showing warnings to users or confusing Apache. I found this beauty after reading another great article on Linux Magazine, Ten Things You Didn’t KNow Apache (2.2) Could Do
So those of you running your own servers can take advantage by upgrading today!
For those of you relying on a Host you should start bombarding them with requests immediately. DreamHost members can vote up the already created suggestion to implement this.
This is a response to a question on the DreamHost wiki posted by anonymous.
“I have a Contact page using form mail, and want to include a checkbox that enable visitors, to also subscribe to our Announce List when posting their form mail.
Is there a facility for adding users to the Announce List without using form POST”
Without using POST? I am not sure about that.. but using a checkbox to subscribe users is a snap.
A quick and dirty tutorial to get a new Ruby on Rails application running on your DreamHost server. In am going to concentrate on the easiest method, which is to use the Phusion Passenger module, a.k.a. ‘mod_rails’.
Introduction
Some wise warnings from the DreamHost Passenger Wiki page;
- “Passenger and Mongrel fulfill very much the same roles so you most likely do NOT want to be using both of them on the same domain or website.”
- “Passenger disables some mod_rewrite functionality.”
Alright, so without further adue I will jump into the process of getting a Ruby on Rails application to run on DreamHost servers.
Special thanks to members of the DreamHost support wiki and RubyDreams for inspiration and guidance.
As an avid Beta tester I must admit that the excitement of receiving that new product invitation email never dulls. That is very true for the email I received earlier this week inviting me to Google Voice.
The service is particularly sweet for any Android users that are already syncing their Google contacts with their phone. Google Voice can see these contacts as well and label all your incoming calls.
The Google Voice interface looks very much like gmail.
There has been a lot of buzz about the product and its features, so I wanted to share my findings to anyone who may care, so here it goes.
Many cell phone carriers are moving to implement a circle of friends that you can call for free. T-Mobile has MyFaves™, Alltel has My Circle ™, even Verizon offers a discount on the ten numbers you call most. This begs the question;
“Who do I call Most?”
Well you can be subjective about it and decide you like Danny better than Mary-Lou, but the truth is that Mary-Lou calls you constantly, and that’s going to put a dent in your anytime minutes.
The more objective and scientific method is to actually count the minutes you spend on each number and rank the accounts in order of use. Hmm, I am already thinking AWK.
Read on to get the awk script to sort your monthly calling logs into facts you can use!
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If you caught this years Keynotes for Google I/O you saw some pretty sweet demos. I was eager to play with some of them in person, and did my best to track them down. You will need Google Chrome for some of the sites, which I have denoted. See Google’ I/O’s Day 1 Keynote – 2009
It is worth noting that most, if not all can be found on Google Chrome’s Experiments pages http://www.chromeexperiments.com/