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Surveyor SRV-1 Blackfin Robot
Wow, this little guy is cool. Check out Surveyor Corporation’s Open Source Wireless Mobile Robot . Very neat little package for just $475. While there, you might also want to check out YARB 1.0 (Yet Another Robotic Blimp) robot, also pretty neat. Here is a bit of a description according to their site: Designed for research,…
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Build your own smartphone…..from scratch.
Yep, you can do it now…..The open source hacker community GizmoForYou is shipping a Linux hardware/software kit for building a modular touchscreen smartphone. Using the OMAP35x-based Gumstix Overo Earth single-board computer (SBC), the Flow phone offers numerous customization modules including GPS, 3.5G cellular, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a camera. At around $1300 for the complete kitchen…
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How to mount your Journalized HFS+ disk in Linux….
This is something that people who deal with OSX and Linux come across everyday. Yes you can format your USB stick or removable HD using FAT32. The problem is that FAT32 does not support large sized files which can cause problems. So how do you solve this…..Easy. Attach the Journalized HFS+ disk to your MAC…
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Enabling Google Calendar in Mozilla Sunbird or Thunderbird Lightning Add-on
This one is simple…..to set up CalDAV support for Google Calendar in Mozilla Sunbird, follow these steps: Open the Sunbird application (or under Thunderbird with Lightning Add-on) and select File >New Calendar. Select On the Network and click Next. Select the CalDAV format option. In the Location field, enter https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/username@gmail.com/events and click Next. Enter a…
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Enabling Google Calendar in Apple’s iCal under OSX 10.5+
Yep, It works I just transfered all my calendar appointments from local iCal calendar to Google calendar in one easy step. First you need to go into iCal and export your current calendar. If you’re starting fresh with google calendar you don’t need to do this. To set up CalDAV support for Google Calendar in…
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Single command Ubuntu LAMP stack installation on Desktop Edition…..
This used to be a pain in the butt. Lots of manual apt-get lines and config edits to get it to work. Weŕe talking about installing the LAMP stack onto a preexisting Ubuntu Desktop Edition installation. I used to do this backwards in the old days by installing the Server edition first (with LAMP) and…
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Writing Moblin (and Ubuntu) USB images using dd in OSX
I came across this problem this morning, while writing the newly downloaded moblin USB image file. The concept is straight forward, plugin a 1GB+ USB stick into a functioning Linux or Windows box, make sure the stick is not mounted and use dd to write the disk image to the stick. Under OSX however the…
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Moblin OS rocks…..
Heard of Moblin yet….Intel’s foray into designing a Linux distro. Moblin is an open source project focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized for the next generation of mobile devices including Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In-vehicle infotainment systems. I came across the promo video below and I have to say I’m impressed. I’m downloading…
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Awesome music video in 2.5D….
I came across The Basics’ “With this ship” video this morning and I figured I had to share it. Great music and a fantastic video created by Aussie director and animator Matt Arnold.
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ROCKS Cluster: "Unable to run job: denied: host is no submit host"
I ran into this a couple of weeks ago and it’s been driving me bonkers. I finally figured out what’s wrong. I was just trying to get my feet wet using the Sun Grid Engine and figured I follow their instruction page and try out the example shell script and submit it using “qsub” command.…