Recently, one of my friends who is a plumber in San Francisco, gave me an old PowerBook G4. Well, since I am not an Apple fan boy (sorry Apple fan boys), I’ve figured I can install Windows XP.
I ran into the big problem that Windows XP is not supported on a PowerPC CPU, ...
Here’s a great way to build your own open-source storage server just like the commercial version DropBox. (btw, is a great service!)
Basically this will allow you to build easy-to-use linux storage server for private companies as an example.
If you like tinkering with Li ...
Tuaw has a great tutorial on how to install Ubuntu Linux on your Mac machine. This uses Sun’s VirtualBox, which essentially lets you install any kind of operating system. This is a great way to have another operating system under your main machine. Of course, this isn ...
For those of you who need to “resume” SCP file transfers that have been interrupted, there’s an easy way to resume them using rsync command.
Use this:
alias scpresume="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"
For Ubuntu or Debian add sudo:
alias scpresume="sudo rsy ...
I have a nice little Linux Ubuntu box I setup here in my apartment with a KVM switch but most of the time, I use command lines to SSH into my linux box.
When I am away from from home and I want to access my linux box, I can access it (SSH into it) using DDNS (dynamic DNS). This ...
I admit it, I’ve been a Palm Pre whore ever since I got the Pre couple weeks ago. For me, having Sprint’s EDVO fast connection and a linux-based smartphone is like heaven. Trust me, it’s faster, better, and more reliable than proprietary iPhone. Yes, I s ...
It looks like Jesse Vincent has hacked an Amazon Kindle 2 to run a custom version of Ubuntu Linux! Well, the Kindle 2 does run on ARM, there’s a lot of linux software out there that’s running on ARM including the Palm Pre but this is pretty amazing indeed.
I could not ...
Here’s some great news that the new Nokia N900 is based on Linux, similar to the new Palm Pre.
The new Nokia N900 comes with ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 1GB of application memory, 32GB of storage (expandable to 48GB with a MicroSD card), and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
That&# ...
Well, I digged a bit further with my Palm Pre GoogleMaps GPS tracking app and made a new app that will track your Palm Pre’s GPS location via Twitter.
This is a better way to keeping a record of where you have been traveling in the past with your Palm Pre.
Here’s a sc ...
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Over this weekend, I’ve cooked up some really great Palm Pre hacks, one of which shows you how to setup a website on your Palm Pre and track your phone via GoogleMaps GPS. This means t ...
