Movin

Moving this blog to my new server over here: Geek Rock USA

This old one will likely stay up, but no new stuff happening here.

T-Mobile G2x Gingerbread Update

So, I waited patiently, but never recieved the OTA update for my phone. I finally checked on T-mobiles site last night and to my suprise there was an annoucement that the OTA was done and you have to go get it from LG if you were missed. :/

I worked through the update, and all went well. The updater from LG is a Windows only application(oh, the irony of updating my linux phone with a windows app through parallels on OSX). Phone rebooted, and all seemed well, except no mobile network connection and the battery was reading as 999%. WTF.

Talked to LG, they said its T-Mobile's problem. Talked to T-Mobile today, and did a factory reset on the phone, still no go. They are now sending me a replacement.....that possibly does not have Gingerbread on it. Hopefully this doesn't happen the 2nd time around.

I await the arrival of my new G2x, but for now I'm rockin my old RAZR.

OSX, Apache, PHP, and MySql

I first tried out MAMP. Very easy to download install and BAM! you have a MAMP server running. I started to run into complexities when I had to install pear packages on the MAMP server and needed those in my development environment as well, basically when I was in shell and Eclipse.

I then ventured down the route of installing those things in the system and using the OSX preinstalls where available. OSX already comes with Apache and it was easy to uncommented the one line to start PHP5. The last thing was MySQL. I had used MacPorts previously, and had a decent experience with it, but a coworker of mine recently suggested Homebrew as an awesome way to install packages on OSX. I decided to give it a shot. Installation was a breeze and MySql was up and running in no time. Mad props to this dudes blog post.

Now that I have all the frameworks in place, next steps are to get Propel ORM a shot for database object oriented goodness. :)

Fedora 14 Post Install Shtuff

Add the RPM Fusion repositories for extra packages not available in Fedora Core:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Follow the wiki to get Adobe Flash plugin installed:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Enabling_Flash_plugin

Then play some Minecraft:
http://sixgun.org/fab/blog/2011/minecraft-howto-f15?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sixgun+%28Sixgun+Productions%29

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

Yes its silly and its the new hit on the internet, but it gives me LOLz.

Polls: Majority Supports Collective Bargaining; Walker Would Lose Election Re-Do

Polls: Majority Supports Collective Bargaining; Walker Would Lose Election Re-Do

Citrix ICAClient didn't integrate with Firefox on Ubuntu Natty A2...

Citrix ICAClient didn't integrate with Firefox on my install of Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2. Not sure why, but resolved it by pointing it to the correct binary:
/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica

Thanks to: http://www.agaveblue.org/howtos/Citrix_ICA_How-To.shtml