After a few days play with my new Dell Latitude E6410 I was expecting more from the “Ubuntu on the new laptop” combination. Here is a short summary for what to expect if installing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a E6410 (check the previous post on the subject). Video card – nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2). Works with default version Nvidia driver from Ubuntu but the log is full of errors:...
Since 01.01.2011 Adobe has stopped support for Flex Builder 3 alpha on Linux. After this date the plugin effectively stopped working even if you had a valid, payed license as it was my case. This was a very sad news since I do a lot of flex development. I don’t need much of the Builder since I use ant for the compilation but at least code completion in .as and ....
I have been delaying buying a new laptop for as much as I could but a decision have to be made sooner or later so I find myself being caught again in the laptop research process. The current one, a Dell Latitude D820 has served me well but I would greatly enjoy some improvement in the compilation times and overall speed. However looking at the available choices I am not in any way thrilled of joy and for the first time I am asking myself a new question: “should I buy a Mac?...
Did I missed the old times when installing Linux on a laptop was a bit tricky? I seems so since installing the latest Ubuntu (10.10 Maverick Meerkat) on a Dell Latitude E6410 (with Nvidia graphics card) was by no means a breeze. Update 20100115: I summarized/updated all the hardware part in a separate article, check for updates. Installation All started when, full of confidence, I booted the usb stick with the Linux install expecting everything to work as a charm and ended up staring at a black screen....
The reason why I haven’t wrote much here on the blog lately is that since I’ve got my android phone I’ve spent most of the free time tinkering with it. And by tinkering I mean developing simple applications and learning the framework. From my perspective spending a few hours coding something which in the end makes a simple (and some might say stupid) blink on the screen is way more entertaining than playing AngryBirds or Teeter....
I order to migrate contacts from a Sony Ericsson C510 to a HTC Desire you first have to export them in an usable format. Wammu recognizes this phone and exports a .vcf file containing all contacts. However there are some major limitations to this process: entries which contains multiple phone numbers are exported separately instead of a single vcf. For an entry named “me” containing a mobile and work phone the exported file contains a: me/M and me/W contact BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2....
XKCD has released an updated version of the 2007 internet “map”. It’s quite funny and interesting for someone interested in this type of data visualisation even if this is a more artistic representation of data. XKCD Online communities map You can find the large map here and the 2007 version here.For those who like more colors check the nmap favicon map.
After a day lost trying to find a bug caused while refactoring multiple versions of copy/paste code into a component I’ve decided to write a small application which searches for other code from my component still duplicated in other places. Naturally a basic python script has emerged. It takes as argument a file and a folder and searches for files ending with .as recursively. Both the reference file and the found files are parsed and a basic function reference is created which is compared to the other files....
As always I’ve been waiting with curiosity the new Ubuntu 10.10 release which this year was auspiciously launched on 10.10.10. I had also heard some rumors about the new netbook “Unity” interface so I’ve decided to give it a try. I own since a few years a Acer Aspire One which despite the very slow SSD drive I still use for bedtime book reading, watching some internet recorded tv shows (mainly envoyee special) and morning news reading....
My first hi-res laptop was a Dell I8000 which had a, huge at the time, resolution of 1600×1200. It was quite expensive because of this but also a wonderful and productive experience. My next laptop was also a Dell, a I8600, which had a “wide-screen”. This means it had a 1680×1050 resolution. The switch was not so heavy even if I lost 150px in one shot. I moved the panels (as in gnome panels) to the right and gained some extra space....