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Japanese Open source

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I follow on twitter some Japanese bloggers, Open Source advocates, which allows me to get a glimpse to the Japanese Market. I found it sometimes amazing, how many original ideas are out there.

A few examples:

  1. twigadge – A twitter sidebar
  2. termtter – Command line twitter client, written in Ruby.
  3. nicodown – From the same guy who wrote 2, a C file that connects and downloads video from the Japanese Nico Nico Douga website. In his website you can locate a few more handy python, perl and ruby scripts as well as a development blog (Japanese)
  4. http://xa.yuiseki.net/ – Exteme Adhoc is the name of the website, and it is indeed extreme, you can follow schedule, twitts, locations, photos of several guys

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Pidgin MSN update – Connected

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Pidgin has just managed to connect to the MSN network. I wonder if we will ever get an explanation what happened.

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Android Progress

Monday, January 12th, 2009

The Android application is coming along nicely, networking works perfectly.
But! As I am migrating a J2ME application, I am having difficulties translating the J2ME design to the Android activities.
Will explain more once I decide

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Pidgin update – Still doesn’t work

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Pidgin still cannot connect to MSN network.
Have tried to connected via a web browser, but apparently MS do not support the browser I am using (Firefox 3.0.5 on Ubuntu), and Meebo connected for a while, but after about 5 minutes disconnected claiming there was an error or I connected on another machine (yeah, I wish).

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Pidgin fails to connect to MSN Live messenger network

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Is it seems that Adium as well as Pidgin fail to connect to the MSN live messenger. Hope this will be resolved soon.

Is this just a BUG, or was this planned by Microsoft?

Anyway, if it is not resolved, I’d have to move all my contact to XMPP as Live Messenger does not support Linux.

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Android Platform Source

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Have finally managed to sync the entire Android Platform (not SDK) to my computer and also built it.
Planning to spend some time and investigate the Linux kernel modifications and some more driver internals before thinking what to do.
One comment though, Google documentation, how to put it politely… is lacking. OK, they explain very well how to acquire the source code, but then… there is nothing. How to flash to a phone? or how to use the emulator?
Project tree has a line next to each folder, without detailed explanation. Now, I don’t know if this is intentional or the common Software developers unwillingness to explain what they are doing.

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Gettind Android Platform Source

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Not the application SDK, but the actual platform source. Browsed through feature list, and noticed some key features are missing, like Audio Input. Not sure yet if I can actually contribute, but I am sure it is going to be fun to Study the platform and the design.

It takes a very long time to sync the entire repository. In the past I have worked a lot with CVS and SVN, so this is the first time for me to work with git, let’s see if it is good.
A few months ago, I tried to do the same with a company computer, but the Enterprise firewall killed git connections, and I couldn’t make it work over http. I also remember browsing through repo and I found a few bugs and issues (which I have later noticed were fixed or explained on the web).

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Spent 1 hour on reconnecting to the Internet

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

I have reseted my WRT54G router, just to realize I have lost all Internet connectivity.
Basic Debug showed that the router can access and ping the gateway, and then Internet, while PCs behind it cannot.
Changed a few setting, disabled uPnP support, saved… and it started to work again.
I have no IDEA what caused the problem, but now is not a good time to investigate further.

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Wordpress 2.7 is available

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Wordpress upgrades happen too fast. I have just installed this blog, and I don’t have the power and time to upgrade.

On the other hand, if I don’t upgrade for a while, I will face upgrade issued.

This is the Dilemma, which makes me think how come the administration menu does not have a button “Upgrade”!

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