By kramfs, on July 30th, 2010
I was playing with some of the virtual machines running on my “hosted ESX” (ESX running as a guest vm on VMware Workstation 7, that’s two levels of virtualization, trying to gauge the responsiveness and network utilization of the Virtual Infrastructure.
In one of the newly installed Centos guest, I fired up yum to update the [...]
By kramfs, on June 29th, 2009
Marvell Semiconductor is shipping a hardware/software development kit suitable for always-on home automation devices and service gateways. Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs, Marvell says.
Designed from the ground up to simplify the management of digital media assets, the Marvell plug computer [...]
By kramfs, on June 29th, 2009
What is Google Gears?
Google Gears (or GG) is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:
A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
A database, to store and access data from within the browser
A [...]
By kramfs, on June 29th, 2009
If you’re one of those who braved to install DD-WRT and is at lost on how to upgrade to the latest version, then this is for you. You can check your current installed version on the upper-right side of your router’s web-interface. The latest version is v24-sp1.
First of all, what is DD-WRT?
DD-WRT is a third party [...]
By kramfs, on June 29th, 2009
I opted to install Ubuntu 8.04 a.k.a Hardy Heron from scratch instead of upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 since I heavily customized my previous installation and I wanted to prevent conflicts.
Since my home directory is on a separate partition, I copied a few config from /etc which I think are important and off I go reformatted and [...]
By kramfs, on June 14th, 2009
Are you new to the wonderful world of Linux? Or are you looking for an easy way to get started? We’ll you’re lucky since TuxRadar made a complete 130-page Linux Starter Pack to get grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months.
According to TuxRadar, a sister site of the popular UK-based LinuxFormat [...]
By kramfs, on June 14th, 2009
CodeAndroid is try to look into the possibility in organizing an Android Developers Boot Camp in Singapore. They would like to see the level of interest that may arise for such an event.
According to chuazy, posted in CodeAndroid.org:
I am now talking with some Google employees as to arranging a developers boot camp in Singapore [...]
By kramfs, on June 11th, 2009
Everybody is talking about iPhone nowadays, with its sleek and smooth UI. It is such a cool phone….but not perfect. Limited applications, no 3G, disappearing SMS are some of its shortcomings. Let Apple kink out the details and wait for the 2nd Gen, for now I’m eyeing for the Nokia N810. A nice companion for my [...]
By kramfs, on June 11th, 2009
After experimenting with my Nokia E61 and putty, I just found out a better way to add the public key to remote servers. This assume that you’re using a linux box as a client.
On your local computer, type:
$ssh-keygen -t rsa
Note: Just press “enter” for every question for truly passwordless login
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in [...]
By kramfs, on June 11th, 2009
had a hard time installing Gutsy on my W3J but my persistent paid off,
I used the official driver from AMD/ATI and by using this easy to follow guide [...]
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