Archive for June, 2008

symfony and Open Flash Charts

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

I’ve been playing with symfony for a project I’m working on called Intelligence Exchange. So far, it’s been pretty cool, even if the learning curve is a bit steep.
As a sub-project, I want to write a cool-looking dashboard to monitor database activity. After looking around a while, I stumbled upon OpenFlashCharts. It [...]

More Android Fun with the Nokia n810

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Well, I got the touchscreen working, thanks to the android_touchscreen_neov2.diff patch.
This tutorial is pretty good for getting Android running on the 810. If you go with the “Doing it the hard way (from source)” method, you’ll find there are a three problems with it:

I forget what the first problem is.
The second [...]

Hacking the Android

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Well, I finally got to play with Google’s Android this weekend. I “installed” a version of it on a Nokia n810. I say “installed” because the procedure was simply (?!) flashing a new kernel and running a script from the micro-SD card. I’ve got to look into the code some more, build a [...]

Fun with Samba and LDAP

Friday, June 20th, 2008

I have been fighting all week trying to get Samba 3.0 and LDAP 3.0 working on a openSUSE 10.2 server. I got it working once; I was rebuilding it again for the practice.
I kept getting these errors whenever I ran smbldap-populate, depending on whether or not I started with a clean LDAP database (clean [...]

 


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