Nerd stuff Archive

  • Howto install Android on an iPhone 2G

    Howto install Android on an iPhone 2G

    Some dudes at Android A Lot wrote a nice step-by-step article on how to install Android on your first generation iPhone.

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  • Problems extending CodeIgniter libraries?

    Problems extending CodeIgniter libraries?

    CodeIgniter (CI), an open source web application framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs, allows you to extend native CI libraries with your own freshly baked functionality. I was having problems extending the form validation library, CI_Form_validation, while writing functions for generating forms using the validation rules set for CI_Form_validation. The validation rules can be [...]

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  • ALSA for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

    ALSA for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

    Thanks to Pyry Haulos and Kevin Vacet I’ve been able to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with ALSA sound support. This means that all my speakers of my 5.1 setup are producing sound instead of just the two front ones. Awesome! Great work. Check it out here. Update @ 25-03-2010: I’ve noticed that this stuff isn’t [...]

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  • A few unanswered questions about the iPad

    A few unanswered questions about the iPad

    Infoworld.com lists the missing details of the released iPad. Personally I think it’s gonna suck, and I hate the fact that Jobs called it “magical” and “revolutionary”, it’s just one big lie. Check out the article here.

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  • Modular datacenter equipment for your living room

    Modular datacenter equipment for your living room

    If you ever have any 19″ networking gear flying around your livingroom because you refuse to place a nice rack for it, the LackRack is right for you. Visit IKEA and buy a side table called LACK. Voila, there is your new, modular, low cost, datacenter in your living room! Key features of the LACK [...]

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  • Terminal-based remote package update manager

    Terminal-based remote package update manager

    Imagine you have several GNU/Linux boxes running, which you all want to keep up to date using the package manager on the boxes (apt, rug, yum). Without any decent solution, you have to manage this issue by hand. That means, logging in to all off the boxes, update the available packages (f.e. by running apt-get [...]

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  • And… more and more nice icons!

    And… more and more nice icons!

    Right here, at backtoessentials.com. A nice overview of some nice icons!

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  • Vectips!

    Vectips!

    Want to broaden your Illustrator knowlegde? Check out Vectips. I was surfing around the internet looking for some nice Illustrator tutorials, because I needed to create a logo for some project which should be a vector. As I don’t have any Illustrator experience, I started with some basic “Welcome to Illustrator” stuff. But, as I [...]

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  • New version of the hpt374 driver

    New version of the hpt374 driver

    Highpoint released a new version of their hpt374 driver, supporting Linux up to version 2.6.31. I’m very happy with that, as I would like to run version 2.6.30 out of the Debian unstable repository. Be sure to check out my post about installing the RocketRAID 1640 card while running Debian. Get it here.

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  • Still getting Unicode errors with FreeTDS?

    Still getting Unicode errors with FreeTDS?

    For some project, I’ve build a webshop in PHP, with a MS SQL 2005 database. I hear you thinking, why didn’t you use some MySQL of PostgreSQL database? Well, the MS SQL database is used by SAP to store product information etcetera, so another database wasn’t an option. So, no problems, just installed php5-sybase on [...]

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