linux 2.6.5 and modules
April 30, 2004
Downloaded and installed the module-init-tools since that's what the article at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt said I should be doing. Even after I installed it the error message Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt Still keeps popping up when attempting...
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First boot of 2.6.5
April 29, 2004
My first attempt to boot the 2.6.5 kernel was a near disaster, i had accidentally compiled ext3 and reiserfs as modules while some partitions use these formats. As a result the kernel attempted to mount an ext3 system as an...
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*** Warning: make dep is unnecessary now.
April 28, 2004
*** Warning: make dep is unnecessary now. That's what the build system said when I attempted to compile the 2.6.5 kernel for the first time. It's been nearly a year since I last installed a new kernel. I decided to...
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Network outage
April 27, 2004
Ouch, this site as well as most of the sites owned/managed by radinks suffered a network outage on friday. Some sites were inaccessible for as much as ten hours. All because the upstream provider was holding our ISP to ransom....
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6600
April 26, 2004
Got my hands on the nokia 6600, a really good looking phone indeed. It supports the new MIDP 2.0 and MMAPI in fact it's one of the handfull of phones around that have both these features. The good looks are...
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The Matrix Reloaded
April 25, 2004
I am always lagging way behind when it comes to taking in the movies but finally caught up with the matrix reloaded. As with any second part of a series they have sold themselves short. This film is too much...
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Bloat ware
April 23, 2004
I have been looking around for an open source java web mail implementation, there aren't many around and what I located seemed like serious bloatware. To create a basic IMAP mail client in java takes only a few hundred lines...
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J2ME complete reference.
April 22, 2004
If you are trying to decide on whcih J2ME book to buy, this titile is definitely not what you want. It was published in 2003 so it's probably fair enough that it does not discuss about MMAPI or some of...
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Commons
April 21, 2004
I have looked into many a J2EE file upload handler. Just started playing around with commons and I am fascinated by the quality of this software. It's well designed and well written and it looks much better than the other...
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MIDP 1.0 To MIDP 2.0
April 20, 2004
Have a problem on my hands, i have two phones with MIDP 1.0 in them, being searching for hours trying to figure out if there is a way to upgrade the MIDP version to 2.0 since that is so much...
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7210
April 19, 2004
The nokia 7210 is definitely one of the most stupid phones that I have ever seen. It's a GPRS and MMS phone but doesn't have a camera so it's not much use when it comes to MMS. It would have...
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The A9
April 16, 2004
The A9 is a highway in Sri Lanka, the most famous highway in fact. Now the A9 is also a search engine, but close inspection seems it's not a new search engine at all it's derived from google results and...
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CMU Sphinx
April 15, 2004
Just installed CMU Sphinx. Had a look the docs and it kind of made my head spin. In case you have read past entries in this blog you would know that I am the kind of guy who reads tech...
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Major changes to Mega Upload
April 14, 2004
I have just released version 1.40 of mega upload, my progress monitor for PHP file uploads. This version should scale better than older versions because the architecture has changed. note: before you read this blog entry you might want to...
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Customer Support and Mailing Lists
April 13, 2004
Do you use a company email address for mailing lists? many people do. Probably because firewalls prevent them from using their personal mail address. Unfortunately many corporate emails have autoresponders to tightly integrated with them. When you post to the...
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SMS with java.
April 12, 2004
I have had the kannel SMS gateway installed on my computer for a long long time but Ihave never before tried to send an SMS through java (J2SE not J2ME). Had a look at some of the java libraries around...
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End of the road for adsense?
April 11, 2004
Google recently made changes to their adwords programs. Since adsense is the siamese twin of adwords they cannot be separated easily, as a result the adsense program has also undergone changes but the bottom line is that as a publisher...
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Speech Recognition - Alternative Tokens
April 10, 2004
Voice recognition -Writing speech recognition engines is a very complex and difficult task. Writing software that makes use of voice recognition engines and libraries is comparatively easier. One of the issues that you face is that sometimes a spoken word...
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Page Rank Calculated
April 9, 2004
Looks like google has recalculated it's page rank again. This recalculation comes after just three weeks. Which is in stark contrast to the last time around when there was a difference of eight weeks between recalculations. (according to my rekonning...
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Google and mirrors
April 8, 2004
Googles (FIND AND LINK) says on their site that they do not list mirrors. THey also mention that they do not index pages that are similar in content. Then why is it that a search for java upload sees three...
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JSGF Woes
April 7, 2004
Having trouble with JSGF - The Java Speech Grammar Format. The JSGF is primarily used with rule grammars in speech recognition. It seems some of the syntax in JSGF has been borrowed from regular expressions but unfortunately you don't find...
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Proxies and Privacy
April 6, 2004
There is an alarming trend in south asia (and possibly other parts of the world) - more and more internet service providers use transparent proxies. While there is nothing wrong in using a proxy to save their bandwidth transparent proxying...
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Google and Yahoo and Spam
April 5, 2004
Google has been ringing the changes of late. I have recently written that these may not all be positive. And yesterday I did some searches which indeed proves my suspicions. The same can be said about yahoo search. I wanted...
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Go Daddy
April 4, 2004
The other day I registered a domain with godaddy for the simple reason that they charge only half of what our regular domain registrar charges. Their is probably the worst online transaction system I have ever seen. There were around...
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CloudGarden
April 3, 2004
Been playing around with speech recognition on cloudgarden. At the moment I have an eval version and not to sure if it's worth the upgrade. The primary draw back with cloud garden is that is not a pure java implementation...
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Adwords and Adsense II
April 2, 2004
Recently I wrote about how adwords and adsense form one of the best combinations around. Some recent changes have resulted in Adwords Becoming a better choice for advertisers and adsense becoming a waste of time for publishers. Suppose you have...
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April fool of programming?
April 1, 2004
This isn't an april fools joke - I am the april fool. April Fool was originally used to describe people who didnt' understand the julian calendar. Been doing programming for nearly seventeen years now. (That's right 17 years). I am...
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