I went to the zoo yesterday, the only reason this is making my blog is that while there I played with a Qik app for the iphone (if yours is jailbroken). Instant video streams are cool, even if I have no talent as a film maker. Check it out: http://www.qik.com/robg.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
They don’t play with the other kids nice. They share when its everybody else’s turn only.
I have thought for ages that Ubuntu seem to get a bunch of credit for the hard work of some dedicated gnome hackers, working predominantly for Redhat and Novell and a bit of energy spent on theming (can we get over brown please). I know that is not entirely fair, the 1 CD live/install thing is pretty smart.
But Ubuntu is the most popular distro for users, and that to me seems unhealthy. A huge user base all running a distro which really does nothing to aid the development of Linux on a community wide level.
Update:
I know This article is talking about Kernel, X.org and system level development, not a mention of gnome. The above is just my observation.
Why do PC users think Publisher is a standard application. The amount of times I have received a publisher file in an email. Listen up people, Linux and Apple users cannot use Publisher files (for that matter neither can BeOS/OS2/any unix variant/anything other than windows users).
I know I could probably use wine, or a vmware image. But I don’t want to. The fact is Publisher is a second rate application, and I don’t want to touch it.
But to the point! I just found pdfonline.com. This is not an advertisement, in fact I didn’t read the usage terms and my email address may very well have been sent to a spam king somewhere. But needless to say their online converter worked, and I converted a publisher attachment, it turns out wasn’t worth bothering with, into a pdf document.
Suck that you publisher users! I will not be soiled by your poor software choices.
I know there a numerous apps in Cydia for running a socks proxy on the iPhone – but you don’t need them. In fact using them can be a bit painful because your either need to set a static IP address in the iphone for the ad-hoc network or regularly change your socks settings on you laptop.
All you need to create a socks proxy on the iPhone is openssh. Create a ad-hoc network on your laptop, join the iPhone to that network, now ssh to the iphone using the following command:
# ssh -D 1080 ip.address.of.iphone
You now have a socks proxy running on your local machine on port 1080. This has a few benefits.
- If you are on a mac, you can setup up one new location in network preferences which simply has a localhost socks proxy.
- It is more secure than an unauthenticated proxy server running on your iphone. You have a firewall right?
Netatalk on the iPhone is great, but what if you want to turn it off. Using Bossprefs it is easy to create a toggle which allows you to control the state of your netatalk daemon.
For this to work you need a jailbroken iphone with netatalk, openssh, and Bossprefs installed, all avaialable through Cydia. I would also suggest grabbing insomnia to stop your iphone going to sleep (or change the settings in system preferences).
Continue reading ‘Creating a toggle for netatalk on the iPhone’
I have netatalk on my iphone to access files via afp. I wanted a publicly accessable dropbox. These instruction deal praimarily with the iPhone, but they would work on any system where you were running netatalk.
Continue reading ‘A Netatalk Dropbox’
After the upgrade to iTunes 8 I could not download iphone app updates. iTunes alerted me that an update was ready but it could not download it, it couldn’t even tell me what up needed the update. I read this page: http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/09/10/itunes-8-workaround-for-5002-unknown-error-when-trying-to-update-apps/ but wierder still my iphone wasn’t reporting an out of date app.
I figured if I deleted the app which needed the update and grabbed it again from the ITMS it would work. Of course I didn’t know which app to start with. So I deleted one app which for som reason never showed the correct icon. The update message didn’t go, so it wasn’t that app. I re-grabbed the app and for no good reason attempted to download the update again. It worked!
So without being able to verify this. If you have this error, and you have an app without the correct icon. Delete the app and get it again from ITMS, and if your like me – the problem goes away.
I did a quick google and found a few other posts about this. I have half a dozen beatles albums and iTunes Genius does not work for any of them. This is obviously explicitly programmed in – but I don’t know why.
Though apple may only be able to make recommendations on music available in itunes, which limits it’s usefulness.