tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52083322008-05-14T18:42:59.554-05:00Adnannoreply@blogger.comBlogger3786125Switched to feedburner for the feed. if you have problems let me know and I'll try to solve the problem.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-28858742128600360172008-05-13T13:25:00.002-05:002008-05-13T13:29:43.360-05:00Jonathan Ellis has a <a href="http://spyced.blogspot.com/2008/05/ide-update.html">short run down</a> of Utah Python User group where they talked about IDE's and Python.<br /><br />He points to a nice write up of the Emacs and Python presentation <a href="http://www.enigmacurry.com/2008/05/09/emacs-as-a-powerful-python-ide/">here</a>. <br /><br />The write up for the *other* editor is <a href="http://blog.sontek.net/2008/05/11/python-with-a-modular-ide-vim/">here</a>. :-><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/289628223" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/python-and-ides.html2008-05-13T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-12

<ul> <li><a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/change-font-dos-command-prompt-window-consolas-programming-font/3253/">Change the Font of Command Prompt Window to Consolas For More Comfortable Reading</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/papers/byte.html">Data Structures in the Andrew Text Editor</a></li> <li><a href="http://cocotron.org/">Cocotron: Cross platform Objective-C API</a></li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/python-callbacks/">python-callbacks - Google Code</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/change-font-dos-command-prompt-window-consolas-programming-font/3253/">Change the Font of Command Prompt Window to Consolas For More Comfortable Reading</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/papers/byte.html">Data Structures in the Andrew Text Editor</a></li> <li><a href="http://cocotron.org/">Cocotron: Cross platform Objective-C API</a></li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/python-callbacks/">python-callbacks - Google Code</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/289184195" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-122008-05-12T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-11

<ul> <li><a href="http://lifehacker.com/389203/dexpose2-like-mac-expose-but-better">DExposE2 Like Mac Expose but Better</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://lifehacker.com/389203/dexpose2-like-mac-expose-but-better">DExposE2 Like Mac Expose but Better</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/288450346" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-23355453872647411392008-05-11T19:17:00.001-05:002008-05-11T19:17:37.721-05:00I'm seeing more and more hard drive failures all around. I'm hearing clicking noises from one of my hard drives too. Thankfully I have everything replicated on multiple machines so I don't have to go running to backup. <br /><br />It was amusing to see two tweets back to back about hard drive failures:<br /><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/awasim/SCeL6nuK3_I/AAAAAAAAAHE/76rHUo4cvCg/Failed%20harddrives.png?imgmax=800" alt="Failed harddrives.png" border="0" width="695" height="149" /></div><br /><br />Anybody else seeing hard drive problems? Is it the season for hard drive FAIL?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/288334739" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/failed-harddrives.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-72704704186843027292008-05-11T18:04:00.001-05:002008-05-11T18:04:33.222-05:00Good presentation <a href="http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/">here</a> on Python and Unicode.<br /><br />The most important slide for me says:<br /><br /><pre>s.decode(encoding)<br /> * &lt;type 'str'&gt; to &lt;type 'unicode'&gt;<br /><br />u.encode(encoding)<br /> * &lt;type 'unicode'&gt; to &lt;type 'str'&gt;</pre><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/288303570" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/python-and-unicode.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-18981402133008081762008-05-11T09:26:00.001-05:002008-05-11T09:26:12.270-05:00<p>&#160;</p> <p>Debugging with Xcode</p> <p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:f8c716a1-417d-4005-a454-dfc828de60e9" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"><div><embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3598467380866353869&amp;hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed></div></div> </p> <p>Two cool videos from cocoahead. Debugging with Xcode embedded above, and <a href="http://theocacao.com/document.page/570">UI Design Essentials</a> which can be downloaded from Scott Stevenson's site.</p> <p>via <a href="http://theocacao.com/document.page/570">theocacao.com</a></p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/288083179" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/cocoahead-videos.html2008-05-10T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-09

<ul> <li><a href="http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/download/">SSHWindows.SourceForge.Net: OpenSSH for Windows</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/download/">SSHWindows.SourceForge.Net: OpenSSH for Windows</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/287297564" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-092008-05-09T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-08

<ul> <li><a href="http://www.learningpython.com/2008/05/07/elegant-xml-parsing-using-the-elementtree-module/">Elegant XML parsing using the ElementTree Module</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://www.learningpython.com/2008/05/07/elegant-xml-parsing-using-the-elementtree-module/">Elegant XML parsing using the ElementTree Module</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/286578426" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-082008-05-08T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-07

<ul> <li><a href="http://pinepointsoftware.com/delish/site/">Delish, a Del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X by Pine Point Software LLC</a></li> <li><a href="http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/">Python Call Graph</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://pinepointsoftware.com/delish/site/">Delish, a Del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X by Pine Point Software LLC</a></li> <li><a href="http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/">Python Call Graph</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/285841616" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-05-07tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-90782864483353017332008-05-07T14:01:00.001-05:002008-05-07T14:04:03.025-05:00I'd been waiting for someone more influential than me to comment on the Acid3 test situation. Looks like Mark Pilgrim <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/05/07/when-the-fall-is-all-thats-left">stepped up</a>...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/285575689" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/mozilla-acid3-and-mark.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-34128467109113923902008-05-06T13:59:00.001-05:002008-05-06T13:59:15.616-05:00<p>I've had twhirl running for a while, and the twhirl memory usage is really growing:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/awasim/SCCqfVElT-I/AAAAAAAAAGk/CHXAdIMnb5s/s1600-h/twhirl_memory%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="92" alt="twhirl_memory" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/awasim/SCCqgFElT_I/AAAAAAAAAGs/t4cpCVXoiPI/twhirl_memory_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="391" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Restarting the application brings the memory usage down:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/awasim/SCCqgVElUAI/AAAAAAAAAG0/m0NRJariako/s1600-h/twhirl_normal_memory%5B6%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="76" alt="twhirl_normal_memory" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/awasim/SCCqg1ElUBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/h2gbmlL_8OI/twhirl_normal_memory_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="389" border="0" /></a></p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/284840662" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/twhirl-memory-usage.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-9563532693517108972008-05-04T09:43:00.001-05:002008-05-04T09:43:44.238-05:00<embed id="VideoPlayback" style="width:400px;height:326px" flashvars="" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4400856579609253323&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br /><br />via <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4400856579609253323">Google video</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/283339811" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/05/how-freebsd-project-works.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-19830441675916251012008-04-30T23:04:00.001-05:002008-04-30T23:04:30.114-05:00<p>I missed this somehow, but twhirl integrates support for friendfeed:</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/awasim/SBlBGlElT8I/AAAAAAAAAGU/fcmMOMiaKYA/twhirl_friendfeed%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="286" alt="twhirl_friendfeed" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/awasim/SBlBR1ElT9I/AAAAAAAAAGc/93AKKNDaF20/twhirl_friendfeed_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="477" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>I like twhirl, it seems more stable than alertthingy for now. </p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/281234909" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/twhirl-adds-friendfeed-support.html2008-04-29T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-04-28

<ul> <li><a href="http://devblog.jasonhuck.com/2008/04/25/jquery-combo-select-redux/">jQuery Combo Select Redux</a></li> <li><a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/fancyupload-swiff-meets-ajax">Ajaxian &raquo; FancyUpload: Swiff meets Ajax</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://devblog.jasonhuck.com/2008/04/25/jquery-combo-select-redux/">jQuery Combo Select Redux</a></li> <li><a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/fancyupload-swiff-meets-ajax">Ajaxian &raquo; FancyUpload: Swiff meets Ajax</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/279848965" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-04-28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-83303376061192290882008-04-25T22:23:00.001-05:002008-04-25T23:14:03.625-05:00I love this game! :)<br /><br /><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/awasim/SBKgKlElT6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/FUxgvSWGeHs/Warcraft3.png?imgmax=800" alt="Warcraft3.png" border="0" width="400" height="200" /><br /><br /><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/awasim/SBKlU1ElT7I/AAAAAAAAAGM/k7jeZqubGHY/warcraft3.1.png?imgmax=800" alt="warcraft3.1.png" border="0" width="400" height="200" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/278035208" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/warcrafting.html2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-04-24

<ul> <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow">SourceForge.net: ffdshow</a></li> </ul>

<ul> <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow">SourceForge.net: ffdshow</a></li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/277392136" height="1" width="1"/>http://del.icio.us/awasim#2008-04-24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-47356527008216575092008-04-24T16:26:00.001-05:002008-04-24T16:29:24.712-05:00Just finished installing hardy heron, and the first thing I notice is Firefox 3 Beta 5 as the default browser.<br /><br />Servers are under quite a load, so apt-get install build-essential is stuck at 0%.<br /><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/277183162" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/hardy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-69028028633618558082008-04-24T12:51:00.001-05:002008-04-24T12:51:31.307-05:00I've been downloading ubuntu all morning, and I like the way firefox 3 (beta5) status bar shows download status:<br /><br /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/awasim/SBDIdFElT5I/AAAAAAAAAF8/E0WdxC8zS3Q/Firefox%203%20Beta%205%20download.png?imgmax=800" alt="Firefox 3 Beta 5 download.png" border="0" width="312" height="25" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/277066038" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/firefox-3-download-status.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-74735149007770651202008-04-24T12:31:00.001-05:002008-04-24T12:31:45.439-05:00<a href="ubuntu.com">ubuntu.com</a><br /><br />Downloading it as we speak. Its been trickling in ever so slowly all morning.<br /><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/277054322" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/ubuntu-hardy-heron-released.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-32216764923298228442008-04-23T01:02:00.001-05:002008-04-23T01:02:08.060-05:00I just liked this <a href="http://twitter.com/loiclemeur/statuses/794884531">tweet</a> by Loic so much, I just copied and tweeted the same:<br /><br /><blockquote>@Scobleizer I really can't find a reason why I should care about Mesh. I am just ignoring it totally :) good night </blockquote><br /><br />Also, this <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/22/ray-ozzie-delivers-with-live-mesh/">comment</a> by Robert pissed me off...<br /><br /><blockquote>Linux support? What’s that?</blockquote><br /><br />Uhhh... yeah... way to go Robert. Dismiss millions of world wide developers developing great quality software. Software that powers most web servers today. <br /><br />I could go on forever...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/275936772" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/i-just-liked-this-tweet-by-loic-so-much.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-41896416060919334672008-04-21T19:35:00.001-05:002008-04-21T19:35:26.248-05:00Wonder why its not working?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/275048476" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/disqus_21.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-7486320020950058952008-04-20T12:27:00.001-05:002008-04-20T20:32:57.391-05:00<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="263" width="320" id="jtv_player_flash" data="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_tip_embed.swf" bgcolor="#000000"><param name="movie" value="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_tip_embed.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="auto_play=false&start_volume=25&title=Startup School&start_time=1208620800000&end_time=1208630700000&channel=hackertv&tip_id=97554" /></object><br /><a href="http://www.justin.tv/hackertv" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:320px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center;">Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv</a><br /><br />via <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/19/packed-house-at-y-combinator-startup-school/">techcrunch</a><br /><br />Their are more videos <a href="http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/archive?start_time=1208627219">here</a> with various other talks that didn't show up for me in the video above.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/97862/DHH_Talk__Startup_School_2008">Here</a> is David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals and creator of the Ruby on Rails framework.<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="263" width="320" id="jtv_player_flash" data="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_tip_embed.swf" bgcolor="#000000"><param name="movie" value="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_tip_embed.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="auto_play=false&start_volume=25&title=DHH Talk - Startup School 2008&start_time=1208631951000&end_time=1208633866000&channel=hackertv&tip_id=97862" /></object><br /><a href="http://www.justin.tv/hackertv" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:320px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center;">Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/98128/Peter_Norvig_Director_of_Research_Google">Here</a> is Peter Norvig who is Director of Research at Google.<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="263" width="320" id="jtv_player_flash" data="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_tip_embed.swf" bgcolor="#000000"><param name="movie" value="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_tip_embed.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="auto_play=false&start_volume=25&title=Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google talks at startup school&start_time=1208649759000&end_time=1208651394000&channel=hackertv&tip_id=98128" /></object><br /><a href="http://www.justin.tv/hackertv" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:320px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center;">Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/274175530" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/y-combinator-startup-school.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-59881058514083395622008-04-18T23:52:00.001-05:002008-04-18T23:52:16.436-05:00Looks like friendfeed is getting a lot of me too copies. Their is the german version called <a href="http://freundfeed.de/">freundefeed</a> reviewed by <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/18/german-startup-community-makes-us-proud-once-again-freundefeed/">techcrunch</a>.<br /><br />If you have too many social newtorking aggregators (such as friendfeed and socialthing) you can use <a href="http://friendfeedfeed.com/">friendfeedfeed</a> to aggregate them all. <br /><br />Oh you want to see what the famous memes on friendfeed are? You could probably use <a href="http://almostfamous.thiswontwork.com/">almostfamous</a>.<br /><br />You want more memestuff... try <a href="http://readburner.com/">readburner</a>. Heck, if you want to really follow the echo, you must read <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/">techmeme</a>, <a href="http://tailrank.com">tailrank</a>, <a href="http://rssmeme.com">rssmeme</a> and <a href="http://readburner.com">readburner</a>. Make sure to rinse and repeat.<br /><br />Want even more of the same, try <a href="http://www.meme13.com/">meme13</a>. Ok so meme13 was <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3340/meme13-finding-new-bloggers-tech">supposed</a> to get feeds that aren't that popular from the techmeme <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/lb">leaderboard</a>, but I'm sure you're already subscribed to these sites, and are dutifully sharing them on google reader, or friendfeed or heck even <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080415/p86#a080415p86">facebook now</a>. More of the same stories, Yay!<br /><br />Make sure you follow a lot of people on twitter. You'll get a lot of pointers to much the same articles from all your loyal friends on twitter.<br /><br />Even companies are echoing. <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080418/p117#a080418p117">AOL</a> seems to want to echo <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080331/p7#a080331p7">Yahoo</a>, unless I'm missing something.<br /><br />Heck even this blog post of mine is an echo of stories about the blogosphere as an echo chamber which started <a href="http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1729">here</a>. <br /><br />/sarcasm<br />:-><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/273346169" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/feeds-friends-and-echo.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-31914544500228456232008-04-15T22:59:00.001-05:002008-04-15T22:59:50.462-05:00<script type="text/javascript" src="http://service.twistage.com/api/script"></script><script type="text/javascript">viewNode("42a0a3fc26828",{ width: 425,height: 274});</script><br /><br />via <a href="http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/talking-tech-with-myspace-cto">Fastcompany.tv</a><br /><br /><a href="http://scobleizer.com/">Robert</a> talks with Aber Whitcomb, CTO of Myspace who talks about their data centers amongst other things. Really interesting to see how large websites such as myspace.com are setup.<br /><br />I messaged Robert that I was missing technical content in his recent videos and he pointed me to this video. This is exactly what I was looking for. Great video Robert, I'd like more! :)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/271159416" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/scoble-talks-tech-with-myspace-cto.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-64689549082507467292008-04-15T20:49:00.001-05:002008-04-15T20:49:12.040-05:00<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3528799355371049884&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed><br /><br />via <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3528799355371049884&q=C%2B%2B+threads&total=15&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1">Google Video</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/271106430" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/google-video-advanced-topics-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-57618985358429109562008-04-15T12:31:00.001-05:002008-04-15T12:31:14.756-05:00Noah Gift and Jeremy Jones have put together a show that will highlight a FOSS project in each show. You can read more about it <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/04/15/an-interview-with-mark-shuttleworth.html">here</a>, or watch their first episode <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/04/15/an-interview-with-mark-shuttleworth.html?page=2#video">here</a>.<br /><br />Reading about how they put the show together is an interesting as the podcast itself so you might want to read the article first. Their first interview is with Mark Shuttleworth, creator of Ubuntu.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/270853302" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/spotlight-on-foss-show.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-58695996224739593142008-04-14T09:07:00.001-05:002008-04-14T09:09:02.404-05:00I've been very impressed with Adobe AIR, mostly because of the two applications: twhirl and alertthingy. Also its really easy to get AIR applications installed on Windows and Mac OS X. <br /><br />The installation is quite manual so far in Linux. First go to Adobe labs and download the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/">alpha release</a>.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/awasim/SANirWOwmLI/AAAAAAAAAFk/MmlDq2TqUvo/Adobe%20AIR%20Linux.png?imgmax=800" alt="Adobe AIR Linux.png" border="0" width="400" height="202" align="right" /><br /><br />Run the commands in the above image to install the runtime. Once installed go to <a href="http://www.twhirl.org/">twhirls</a> website and download twhirl.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/awasim/SANjMGOwmMI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2jpCxdJmXPI/Adobe%20AIR%20Linux%201.png?imgmax=800" alt="Adobe AIR Linux 1.png" border="0" width="400" height="217" align="right" /><br /><br />I clicked on the "Open with Adobe AIR Installer", and from their AIR handled the installation prompting for a few options. The applications got added to the desktop, but didn't show up in the KDE Menu. Once started their are some display issues as you can see below:<br /><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/awasim/SANkLWOwmNI/AAAAAAAAAF0/Zeo9JmYbTow/Adobe%20AIR%20Linux%20and%20twhirl.png?imgmax=800" alt="Adobe AIR Linux and twhirl.png" border="0" width="337" height="426" /></div><br /><br />I guess the black area around the window is where the shadow for the window should be. <br /><br />Not as easy to install and get going as in Windows/OS X but the experience is not that bad at all. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/270042350" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/adobe-air-for-linux-alpha.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-69302140716464893902008-04-13T22:50:00.001-05:002008-04-14T00:34:42.857-05:00The alpha for kubuntu-kde4 refused to boot on the machine I mentioned in my <a href="http://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/sp1-improves-vista-driver-support.html">last post</a>, and the cd I burnt the <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyHeron/Beta/Kubuntu">beta release</a> on was bad. <br /><br />I successfully installed the kubuntu beta in <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">virtualbox</a>, and kde4 is beautiful. The first thing I did was "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot". This installed a bunch of packages, and the system rebooted. I login, and their is no kde panel at the bottom of the screen. Turns out klauncher segfaults. <br /><br />Since I haven't got the beta to install on the desktop yet, I'm not sure if the segfault is a result of the virtual machine, virtual machine additions, or a problem with the kubuntu beta. <br /><br />Update: Ok this combination seems to have worked for me. Install OS, do "apt-get update/upgrade", reboot. Install virtual machine additions, and then follow instructions on the <A href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=620828">following page</A> to get the video to a resolution greater than 800x600.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/269777510" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/kubuntu-kde4-problems.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-90678210482849011062008-04-13T20:21:00.001-05:002008-04-13T20:21:12.851-05:00I have an old old desktop machine that I use for test purposes. I generally use it to test software in Ubuntu before I move things to my Ubuntu server. I've also tried Vista on it since Vista RC days. Vista was a problem on this machine. The network card (a 3com 3c905b card) didn't have drivers. The sound card (Creative SBLive) didn't have drivers. Older drivers wouldn't work on the machine. <br /><br />Recently I decided to try Windows Server 2008 on it. As usual the network card wouldn't work after the OS install. However, older drivers for the network card got installed. After running Server 2008 for a month, I had no problems with this machine running as a file server. Windows <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/vista_sp1.asp">Vista SP1</a> uses the same kernel as Windows Server 2008. <br /><br /><blockquote>"An update to the Windows kernel to bring the Vista kernel (version 6.0) up to date with the version in Windows Server 2008 (version 6.1)."</blockquote><br /><br />I figured that if the old driver worked in Windows Server 2008 it would work in Windows Vista SP1. I installed Vista SP1 on the machine today, and what do you know it worked. I had Windows XP drivers for the 3com card on a USB key, which got picked up without a problem. And not only that, Vista even picked up drivers for SBLive online (after complaining that the card was unsupported). <br /><br />The machine is a 1Ghz, 512MB Ram system, and the system seems quite snappy. Ofcourse I don't have that many applications installed on it yet. Who knows how long Vista will last on the machine. Its a test system after all and <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases">Hardy</a> is right around the corner! :)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/269721623" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/sp1-improves-vista-driver-support.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-59233489942922953412008-04-13T08:46:00.001-05:002008-04-13T08:54:36.776-05:00<img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/awasim/SAINnmOwmKI/AAAAAAAAAFc/3PLdqTOn1EE/alert%20thingy.png?imgmax=800" alt="alert thingy.png" border="0" width="300" height="250" align="right" /><br />A new friend feed client called <a href="http://alertthingy.com/">alertthingy</a> is out. I had a little problem going online, I think the username is case sensitive. <br /><br />I love the ease with which Adobe AIR applications can be installed. The two apps I have running right now are twhirl, and now alert thingy. Their is an "install now" button on the web site, which you click. Go through the wizards, and the application is installed. Nice.<br /><br />Too many places to post though. Their is myblog/marsedit, twitter/twhirl, and friendfeed/alertthingy. Where do I post. <br /><br />Thats one less tab in my browser.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/269451377" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/friend-feed-client-alertthingycom.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-89229105332196986872008-04-12T18:35:00.001-05:002008-04-12T18:37:05.095-05:00<img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/awasim/SAFGumOwmJI/AAAAAAAAAFU/B-C5DAAAxjY/hak5live.png?imgmax=800" alt="hak5live.png" border="0" width="400" height="370" /><br /><br />Watching hak5live with Hak5Darren (from the right), <a href="http://www.jenncutter.com/">Jenn Cutter</a>, Hak5matt and Hak5Paul setup for their live show at <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hak5setcam">ustream</a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/269178170" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/watching-hak5.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5208332.post-26080757639279505772008-04-11T20:49:00.001-05:002008-04-11T20:49:22.034-05:00Reading <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080410_206881_page_2.htm">this</a> business week article, I came across this line:<br /><br /><blockquote>While Microsoft struggles to bring a kernel-based "Windows 7" to market in 2010 ...</blockquote><br /><br />Now you know why Windows Vista has so many problems. Its kernel-less! <br />Windows 7 is going to be kernel-based, so at least it will boot! :)<br /><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AdnansSysadmin/devBlog/~4/268723398" height="1" width="1"/>Adnannoreply@blogger.comhttp://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2008/04/businessweek-on-windows-7.html