Archive for November, 2009



Sharing returns it’s favour.

Published on November 17, 2009

The posts I write especially  the techie ones are the best memos for myself. I realise I always refer back to my blog whenever I format my Ubuntu partition whenever I do a clean install. Those looooooooong commands are the most used.
Sharing knowledge, indeed, returns that favour. Literally.


Streaming Videos or music from Ubuntu to PS3

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It’s easy as pie!
No it’s easier than making pie!
It’s like just eating pie!
Okay, back to topic already =x
To stream music or videos from Ubuntu to PS3, just install mediatomb. There is no configurations required and just works.
The only thing you have to do after installation is to use the web admin to add the files [...]


I guess that’s why they have flavours of *nix

Published on November 12, 2009

I am a supporter, enthusiast and propagator of Ubuntu if you can call it that.
Since Dapper, I have been requesting CDs from the Ubuntu site and they ship it for free at every major release. And so I have been spreading the word about Ubuntu to my friends and colleagues and show them how viable, [...]


Android development on Ubuntu (No AVD)

Published on November 9, 2009

I had finally started getting myself used to Android development concepts, the UI, and such. ‘android-sdk_r3-linux.tgz’ was what I downloaded from the Android site.
At the time of writing, somehow, there seems to be a bug after running ‘tools/android.sh’. I wasn’t able to get the package list using the default URL which was using SSL. So [...]


Where is the grey area?

Published on November 5, 2009

A person who is rather extreme. Either a yes or a no. There are barely maybes when it comes to choices. I always tell others, being indecisive can literally kill a person.
It’s like doing a multiple choice question on the exams. If you know the answer, freaking choose it and move on. But that is [...]


The virtual machine advantage.

Published on November 3, 2009

Much has been talked about Java. But of all things, one advantage less told about Java is the ease of crossing over to 64bit.
So what has to be done in order to run existing 32bit applications in 64bit?
Just install 64bit JVM and you are done. No need to recompile it in 64bit. The parser is [...]


The unreal majority

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An ability, the ease of telling fake apart from real through spoken words, body language and the windows of souls, the eyes, makes this world a much uglier place.
Reality they call it.
I call it the acceptance of falsity.