So, I’m thinking of starting a new t.v. or webisode show. I’m calling the show “Surviving the Island” and the basic concept is simple, place ten people on an island and the last person that’s alive gets the prize.
Obviously it will have to be a pretty big prize, lets say a million dollars. With as bad as the economy is at the moment I could probably get players for less but 1M seems right.
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Sick of your browser saying “resolving host” well if you are like me you realize that this is actually a comcast problem. Yes they can provide you with a 16mb downstream connection but they can’t resolve their hosts fast enough to do anything useful with it.
Today I decided I’d try google’s public dns http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html and I’m so impressed. Go figure that the world leader in internet technology would also have the fastest dns available.
Step two was to move my router away from my cable modem. I recently read a post describing the electrical interference that a cable modem can have. When placed next to eachother the wireless router spends all it’s time negotiating errors. Once I moved it four feet away from my modem my speed doubled.
My comcast 6m connection is now testing out at 6.6mb down 5.5mb up. Match this and I’ll be impressed.
After noticing the increase I went ahead and changed the dns information on my router so all machines on my network are now accessing pages twice as fast.
Ziggy, to turn sharp over and over. The road zigs and zags and toward the end we felt it was really ziggy.
I was all set to write a step-by-step and came across a great one!!!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=430312
So, you’ve though about trying android on your HTC and you’re worried you’ll destory it. No worries this is a non-evasive hack and works really, really well on my phone.
First empty a micro sd card, then visit http://code.google.com/p/vogue-android/downloads/list and download the following files.
1) basefiles-date.zip
2) system-date.img
Extract all files in basefiles-xxxx.zip to your sd cards root directory. Then you will also need to copy over the image file and rename it system.img
You are basically all set at this point, put the msd card in your phone and open file explorer. Choose to run haret.exe it will ask if you want to use settings.txt and click run.
The screen will get the tux penguin in the upper left as android loads.
Your buttons are basically setup as follows:
top button, normally for turning on and off the screen is for unlocking the phone and opening menus within the phone.
camera button, this is the back button within android, if you want to close a screen hold it for around three seconds and release to be returned to the home screen.
Green Button, this is the same as it was before trying android, it will pull up the dialing pad, and contacts or it will answer a call.
Red Button, this is the end button basically. When on a call it ends your call. Other than that when you press it at your home screen it will lock your phone and turn off the screen. Tap the top button twice to wake and unlock.
From there it’s a crap shoot, I’ve gotten tons of stuff to work just by installing it via marketplace.
As a side note, I’m a verizon customer and all of my included features work fine through them.
Just put android on my xv6900 and I can’t say enough good things about it more later
So today I was trying to re-install quickbooks 2007 on a clients machine and kept running in to trouble.
I’d run through the setup and instead of begining to install it would popup the windows installer with generic information on how to use the windows installer. I tried removing and re-installing .net 1.1 and 2.0 then the .net 1.1 service pack 1 with no avail. Finally I clicked through the disk and found the quickbooks.msi file upon double clicking it instantly quick books 2007 started to intall.
Go windows you suck!
OMG!!!
So recently, well over the weekend I had to deal with a clients content that is hosted with godaddy.com. Well maybe I’m just spoiled with having two of my own dedicated servers with liquidweb.com With them I can configure my websites any way I want; I can also connect via ssh, ftp, telnet and so many other ways that yes I have been spoiled.
Well each time I’ve had to update the site with godaddy I’ve yelled out loud about how much I hate godaddy’s hosting. The php connection string for this client is some ridiculous remote server, then when I setup the ssh access of course it didn’t work nor did the ftp access. Oh did I mention I use linux, so the godaddy web access didn’t work either. Cross Browser Compatibility is something I deal with as a web devloper “nerd” but they don’t bother.
So here is how you work with godaddy as a linux user. First open VirtualBox and start one of your many testing windows environments, then open up your godaddy account download all files and save them to your local machine. Step two, go to liquidweb.com and signup for a shared hosting account or a fullserver. Notice I’m not sending you to my referrer id, I’d just prefer that everyone use them.
Well if that isn’t an option then continue to download upload stuff through a virtual box as their site isn’t cross browser compatible. The other thing that doesn’t work with godaddy is .htaccess overrides along with so many other .htaccess tricks.
So when you need to password protect a folder on go daddy, click on the folder on the left in file manager then click on permissions->advanced and you can set this up.
I’m done for now, I’ll complain about godaddy hosting more later. Oh, and I don’t want to bad-mouth godaddy for domain name registration, in this arena they rule the world but their hosting is so restrictive it’s terrible.
Here is a great way of determining if a value is even or odd, often times I use this function to color a table of data on every other line old school like the green and white line feed paper of my youth.
if( $i&1 ){ even } else{ odd }
or in a fun one liner like i’ve used it many times
$screen_file .= ( $i&1 ? “\t
\n\t
\n\t