Archive For The “General” Category

Adding back cdt support to eclipse (karmic koala)

Currently the eclipse-cdt package is missing from Ubuntu 9.10. To install cdt support do the following: Fire up eclipse: Help->Install New Software Click Add In location add: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/galileo You should be able to select this now from the drop down box titled “Work with:” Follow it through and it will install what you need. My [...]

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Building a Guile extension on an embedded device

Thanks to OpenEmbedded building extensions for Guile that run on embedded devices such as the BeagleBoard is fairly painless. As I have previously mentioned, Guile is already supported by OpenEmbedded. If you have an extension which is made up of some C code and some Scheme code you first should automate building it with autoconf. [...]

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Groking Guile’s FFI

I have lately been very busy with work, life and the universe and subsequently have done little hacking. I have recently been examining Guile. Guile has been part of OpenEmbedded for a while so should be easy to get running on numerous embedded devices. Chicken was very recently added to OpenEmbedded, however, lacks support for [...]

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Paying the price for not updating wordpress

I had negeleted to update wordpress for some time. The result was some iframe expoilts injected into a couple of posts. This resulted in Google reporting me to stopbadware.org. Recent versions of Firefox use data from stopbadware to warn you when you are accessing a site that may contain malware. Also, any search on my [...]

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Booting Angstrom on my Beagleboard

I installed Angstrom on my Beagleboard and was able to ssh in do all the usual things. Obligatory screenshot. I am going to install my btlogger on it and hook up a Bluetooth dongle.

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Remora Project

I have now tested the search engine on an iPod Touch. The code and software is available here. In summary there are 2 search engines. One does a Yahoo! search and allows you to add PDFs to the local search engine. The basic idea is you can easily add documents to your device and find [...]

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Skyhook’s LBS

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 [...]

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