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Running a Caching Proxy Server with Traffic Optimization Using Ziproxy and Squid In Raspberry PI

December 22, 2012
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Running a Caching Proxy Server with Traffic Optimization Using Ziproxy and Squid In Raspberry PI

A week ago, I received my Raspberry PI through the mail. Due to real life issues, I wasn’t able to do testing on this small ARM computer. So after buying a cheap usb wifi dongle and assembling the casing, I decided to try a real life probable use of the PI. On slow networks, traffic…

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A Linux Rant

November 25, 2012
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This is a short rant I would like to say out there. I know, I know, the links which I will post here are outdated, but I still think its relevant. Before you go and bash me for being a totally bad guy, please take note: 1. I have been in the Linux world since…

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Nice use of Blender’s Tomato Branch

October 30, 2011
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I am looking forward to the Mango Open Movie project, but the Tomato branch of Blender has been moving on nicely. There’s one person who used this branch to astounding effect. A user named tomoasks has made this very realistic video of the Buffalo’s mascot. If you’re wondering what the Buffalo’s are, they are a…

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Tizen is Meego without Qt?

October 25, 2011
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Some interesting notes about Tizen and Meego (based on unofficial sources gathered by the Meego Network France, which was sent to the Meego dev mailing list) – so take them with a grain of salt (got some of the details there): 1. When Tizen was announced, it was more of a “political” decision of a…

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Android Is the Most Closed Mobile Open Source Project – and Is One of the Most Successful

July 31, 2011
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Android Is the Most Closed Mobile Open Source Project – and Is One of the Most Successful

Among the 8 open source projects listed, Eclipse was the most "open" of all the projects, and Android was the last in the list.

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Putting It All Together: SpellDial php class and Android Application – Part One

June 23, 2011
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Putting It All Together: SpellDial php class and Android Application – Part One

There are many ways to program in android, ios, symbian, blackberry or winmo phones. There are cross-development frameworks which give you an abstract way to program in these mobile devices without dealing with the underlying phone hardware.

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Froyo Mod on Commtiva Z71 Variant (Cherry Mobile Nova)

March 14, 2011
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Just a quickie video post. Since this reseller keeps quiet on whether they will update their commtiva z71 variant, I decided to upgrade my phone myself. Got much faster speed, and I’m very satisfied with the result! Been working with phonegap too – so android development, here I come! Google+

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Openvpn for Meego 1.1 (Updated with source RPMS)

November 28, 2010
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Short post. I want share to you that I compiled some meego 1.1 rpms for openvpn (I can’t use my meego netbook for work because it doesn’t have openvpn in it’s default repositories). All you need to do is to download the rpm files in the ostalks ibiblio mirror: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/ostalks/meego/1.1/i586/openvpn-2.1.1-2.i586.rpm and http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/ostalks/meego/1.1/i586/pkcs11-helper-1.07-5.i586.rpm install the last…

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Sintel DVD

November 24, 2010
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Sintel DVD

My Sintel DVD has just arrived, and one word to describe it: overwhelmed!

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Unofficial Sintel Wallpapers

September 8, 2010
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From the Durian/Sintel Site: So! exciting times here at the Blender Institute, today is our very-really-thistimeforsure last rendering day, next to some color grade we need to do still, but then is time to grab those big .EXR files and convert them into friendly DPX’s for the guys at Cineco to do magic with it…

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