Archive For February, 2008
I dug out my Sharp Zaurus and flashed it with Poky Linux. It has a really clean interface. I prefer it to OpenMoko in terms of simplicity. I was close to getting my wireless card talking to my Airport Extreme BS but gave up in the end. I need to read up on WPA.
So I downloaded Skyhook’s SDK and ran the example program. I was pretty freaked out when it located me to right outside my house! So how did it do that? Well, some time back, possibly 2 years ago I did some war driving with my Sharp Zaurus hooked up to a GPS. I literally drove [...]
I have been working on a “bot” for thumbtribes called “Dave”. Dave has a couple of jobs. He can make sure the connection does not idle. He can also inform you of new posts to the thumbtribes site. He is pretty basic right now but will get some more duties. It would be nice at [...]
I have migrated thumbtribes to a new server using MySQL instead of PostgreSQL. There may be some teething issues. Drupal handles things differently between the two. For example, in MySQL, Drupal uses a ‘sequences’ table to obtain the next id for various primary keys. In PostgresSQL it uses functions to obtain these values instead. The [...]