Solaris on spac is a lot of fun, however, sometimes you need to clear the deck of all the fun and start fresh. With blastwave (CSW) you install pre-built binaries for your system as regular solaris packages. Removing them using pkgrm is a pain if you want to clear blastwave off completely and start fresh…
Yearly Archives: 2009
Droid Maker – free ebook
I stumbled across and amazing free ebook recently- DroidMaker (the link takes you to the authors blog, where he’s release the PDFs). The story is an amazingly detailed history of the formation of Lucasfilm and the evolution of what became Pixar. I done some 3D modeling and rendering in the past (using Lightwave) and it’s…
Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancers – no paid AMIs?
I was setting up a load-balanced pair of Nodes on EC2 and ran into a snag: you can’t add paid AMIs (we sometimes use the real RedHat AMIs) with the elastic load balancers! So I kicked off some Centos 5.2 images from RightScale and moved everything over. This is going to cost RedHat, since now…
VLC 1.0!
It’s released: VLN for OSX…
EC2 and OpenSolaris with EBS
Using OpenSolaris AMIs on EC2, and wanted to use EBS… currently, Elastifox is mute on naming the devices (only gives examples for linux based device names) so I was looking for a read on Opensolaris and found this…
Conficter- sick
Next, Conficker A enters an infinite loop, within which it generates a list of 250 domain names (rendezvous points). The name-generation function is based on a randomizing function that it seeds with the current UTC system date. The same list of 250 names is generated every 3 hours, i.e., 8 times per day. All Conficker…
Hope for Newton – squashing the 2010 Bug?
Mottek: John Arkley was wrong … Eckhart Köppen has built a Newton patch. So it seems like there are 3 people alive who can do it, despite what John has written. John, Paul and Eckhart. And only one of them is actively developing for the Newton… Which is pretty impressive. Meanwhile, the excellect Nitch software…
Picassa Upload Button for WordPress
It’s finally been done- ClYang has written the glue to get an upload button in Picassa working with your WordPress (2.7.1) blog. This has been a requested feature for a while. There are plenty of solutions to share a picassa web on a WordPress blog, but this is the first instance (that I can find)…
Why the best Newtons could die next year
There is a bad bug in the handing of time for Newton OS 2.1, which is used on most Newtons still around today. Details of the bug have been collected on the 40hz site. There is one ‘fix’ that doesn’t completely work. What is needed is a real system patch, and those are just not…
Amazon’s EC2 Portal
Amazon announced a web-based portal for EC2, and while it’s nice, it’s no ElasticFox. I guess I’ll use both, but ElasticFox is much much faster…
Mysql Gem for OSX Lepard Ruby
Want to build the mysql gem for the system’s Ruby and use the mysql binary you just installed from mysql.org? Easy, has wonko.com has the answer and it worked perfectly! I love Google. airbot:~ [504]$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ gem install mysql — \ > –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib \ > –with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include Password: Bulk updating Gem source…
Picassa for mac beta
http://picasa.google.com/mac/ Is it time to give up on iPhoto?…