During the new year holiday, although I’ve read about bad reviews about Unity, I decided to upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10 anyway, thinking that as long as I don’t use it, I should be ok. Wrong, this upgrade was the worst of all Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu full-time almost exclusively (except on [...]
Someone told me that Riak is a good K/V store to work with, it’s very scalable, and it’s written in Erlang. Since my application is also written in Erlang, that sounds like a good thing to try out. I have been working with MongoDB, and it’s actually quite nice, although the Erlang driver is not [...]
I haven’t synced my HTC Touch Pro with my Ubuntu laptop for a month, while in the meantime, I have performed system update a couple of times. Now that it’s time to sync again, and what do I get? … Member 2 of type synce-opensync-plugin just sent all changes All clients sent changes or error [...]
Most modern computers have multiple cores, and even new multi-core processors are available for portable devices now. Yet, software are not taking advantage of them. Processors are sitting idle, doing nothing, most of the time. A lot of frameworks, libraries, language extensions, and even new programming languages, have been proposed to take advantage of the [...]
Ubuntu 10.04′s repository only has OpenCV 2.0, but if you want to use the 2.1 version, which was released in April, you would have to build it from source. Here’s a simple how-to. First, you need to install the following required packages to build OpenCV: libgtk2.0-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev zlib1g-dev libjasper-dev libavcodec-dev libdc1394-22-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev [...]
In my previous post, I was talking about how unreliable it is to sync between Windows Mobile and Linux (Ubuntu to be precise). SynCE, OpenSync, etc, still had a lot of bugs. And believe it or not, those bugs are known for a long long time, and they never got addressed. As in my previous [...]
One of the annoying things of using Linux has been to get your personal data synced between your Linux desktop and your mobile device(s). We are past the first decade of the twenty first century, an era where everyone is carrying multiple mobile devices, and have multiple desktop computers, and Linux still does not have [...]
When you are debugging your code in NetBeans, sometimes, you would like to escalate the privilege of your program to do certain things that are not permitted as a normal user. You can certainly run the command as: sudo gdb <your program> But then, that’s not a very nice environment to work in. Otherwise, why [...]
After using Eclipse almost exclusively for Java programming in the last 7 years, and put up with its different problems, which seem to pile up over the years, I finally took a jump and installed NetBeans 6.8 to see how it’s doing recently. The event that triggered the switch was an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 [...]
Like a lot of people who use Linux as the main desktop, but still need to sync with a mobile device, I have to maintain a Windows XP guest OS inside VirtualBox. This is especially true for people who use Windows Mobile device. For all its stability and qualities, Linux’s support for mobile devices and [...]