Yearly Archives: 2011

Building a better pogoplug.

A while ago I purchased a pogoplug as a means of sharing photos with my family but its use never really happened because the interface they provided is clunky for hi-res pictures/video.. and some of the family failed to consistently … Continue reading

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rsync & permission denied/operation not permitted & arch linux

I use rsync to sync directories between machines but one of my machines kept screwing up the permissions, I finally get time to track the “Operation not permitted” issue and it turned out to my vfat backup drive not being … Continue reading

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Metro up Java

Microsoft’s Metro environment is a bit of a closed environment for the Open Source language vendor, so although you can code Metro applications in C/C++, C#, HTML/JavaScript/CSS on both Intel and ARM chipsets the choice of other languages are non-existent. … Continue reading

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Windows 8 Developer Preview on VirtualBox

Although I got a developer preview samsung Windows 8 tablet at the Microsoft Build event I do like to use Virtual machine whenever possible because they are very useful. I have managed to get Windows 8 installed on VirtualBox on … Continue reading

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Heroku add Java support but dumps containers!

Recently I have reviewing various cloud solutions and what impact this has on the way you create/architect applications and I have come to the conclusion they are often way too complicated for most existing applications to be effectively hosted in … Continue reading

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Motorola XOOM 3.1 update for Europe

My beloved European XOOM finally is getting Android 3.1 support… Boy have I had to be patient… Android™ 3.1 for Motorola XOOM™ will soon be available over the air to all Motorola XOOM users in Europe. We expect the over-the-air … Continue reading

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Zero Day – Mark E. Russinovich

Just finished reading “Zero Day” by Mark E. Russinovich. The author is a fellow at Microsoft and well know in the computer circles for also being the author of various tools from SysInternals a company he used to own. The … Continue reading

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You can make money without doing evil…

Well this is what google says in their corporate philosophy but I seriously doubting this. If you are not aware of the most recent cuffle about google, let explain and perhaps rant a little. Google; in an attempt to prevent … Continue reading

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One Billion Reasons..

What can a company do with a 1 Billion USD? Well if you are Microsoft you can use this or more to ensure one of your competitors becomes a OEM vendor! This is exactly what is said Microsoft did to … Continue reading

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New Gadget

Over the last couple of years I have not been getting on too well with my second generation iPod Touch but it has been a bit of a love hate relationship… I love it when works well with my mac’s … Continue reading

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