January 2012
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This is Android - for the best or the worst
The R.style reference, however, is not well documented and does not thoroughly describe the styles, so viewing the actual source code for these styles and themes will give you a better understanding of what style properties each one provides.
December 2011
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Do we need a new QT based Desktop Environment?
I’ve been using linux for quite a while now (10 years that it has become my main OS and 9 as my only OS*) so I think I’ve had my share of Linux GUIs. Gnome, KDE, fvwm2, Xfce, fluxbox, blackbox, WMaker, Enlightenment…
No matter what I try, though, I always end up going back to KDE. I kinda like how things work but mostly because I like Qt. However most wouldn’t say KDE is a...
Christmas arrived a little early this year :) →
The Pandaboard has arrived!
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Linux and Me
This post was written almost 2 years ago when I was trying to start yet another blog.
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Today, after getting my netbook reinstalled I decided to write about my history with linux and how things changed from back then. Hope you enjoy it.
My first contact with linux was Slackware 3.6 by the end of 1999.
A friend came with these disks for this very cool operating system, “hacker...
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November 2011
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A tale of Japanese support on vim
TL;DR:
add “set fileencodings=iso-2022-jp,euc-jp,cp932,utf8,default,latin1” to your ~/.vimrc and use “:e ++enc=<encoding_name>” to reload a buffer with a specific encoding.
The fun, instructive (and long) version:
I work for a japanese company in Tokyo and working a japanese language environment, with japanese comments in the source code is something you get used...
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Donate to Wikipedia
From Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views.
Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn’t belong here. Not in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is something...
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Patching 802.11 Linux STA driver for Kernel 2.6.37
[UPDATE: Sent an email to Broadcom about it, including my patch, and the answer was that their internal version works fine but they’ll only release a patch if many people complain about it) (If you don’t want to read about the problem and just want the patched driver go to the end of this post) I’ve been using Linux, and particularly Slackware, for sometime and I’ve seen my...
October 2011
3 posts
Note to self: ADT Plugin and Platform-tools...
Google recently released the SDK for Ice Cream Sandwich, the lastest version of Android (4.0) and with it a new set of tools for development.
After upgrading the eclipse packages I was surprised that I couldn’t export an app to apk after the upgrade.The problem was that I hadn’t upgraded the SDK packages, including the platform tools. It’s seems that the new ADT plugin is...
The Rule of Three →
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Steve Jobs
Even though I never had the honor of meeting Steve Jobs in person, I’d like to think I’m blessed for having the opportunity of living in the time as a visionary as him.
His influence was (and still is) not restricted to those around him, his vision and his achievements inspire, instigate and push forward an unthinkable number of people who are also fighting for their dream, hoping...
September 2011
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The Birth Of Qwikster →
parislemon:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings first apologizes for a lack of communication, and then gives his thoughts about the recent price changes and separation of DVDs and streaming (which is still the right move, as Hastings reiterates).
The wording is good. Amazingly, it doesn’t sound like the total bullshit you usually read in such posts. But here’s my favorite part:
For the past five years,...
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Break Google Search →
dustyprogrammer:
I dont why this is happening. Check out bengl’s blog here.
Shortest way to produce issue is here — http://google.com/#q=${
Social Stuff
Twitter - @myusuf3 and @bengl
Facebook Likes — http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dusty-Programmer/142739272449856
WIN!
Update
It wasn’t my intention to be malicious. I swore to use my powers for good! I will update this post, as we hear...
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Something to be learned →
There’s actually something more important than your time (thanks @nicnocquee for sharing this)
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I've got an AOL mail account. omg
Got an email from About.me saying that they reserved an “About.me” email account for my user and that I could claim it “for free” (Come on, is there an email account that isn’t free nowadays?) and that I could claim it on my dashboard. There I go, fill in a small form, annoying captcha and BAM! Got my Abou… uh oh… omg, I forgot! AOL bought About.me! Damn!...
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laptop
Even though it’s only been a couple months I gotta get a new laptop. I definitely need one of those new ultrabook things Intel is betting on or a Macbook Air. The one I have right now is nice and fast and the most important: it’s battery last centuries but I can’t deal with it’s size anymore. After getting used to my last 1.05Kg Acer I can’t deal with 1.5Kg Dell...