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Category: Computers
My new T-Mobile G1 Android Phone
So I got my T-Mobile G1 Android phone yesterday, and boy am I excited! I had mixed feelings about it initially because I wasn’t so sure of the form factor. I remember thinking that it looked a little clunky, but now that I have it here, in my hand, I have to say that it…
JavaFX: The New Hotness
I went to JavaOne a few months ago. It was a pretty neat experience and I learnt a lot of cool things. One of the things Sun was touting was the JavaFX family of technologies. It allows you to create RIA (Rich Internet Applications) using JavaFX Script, a domain-specific language built on top of Java….
My new laptop
I recently bought myself a new laptop – the Dell XPS M1530. I was originally considering a Macbook, but that was a little too pricey for me. I started to fancy OS X ever since I found out that it is basically FreeBSD at the core. Also, there is the eye-candy. Other than the price-tag,…
Drop-shadows with CSS and Javascript
You have probably seen websites that have images with drop-shadows. It gives the image a three-dimensional floating effect. Usually the images are given drop-shadows with an image editing software like Photoshop. In IE, a drop-shadow is easy to achieve using the DropShadow filter. Unfortunately, this method is not standards compliant and only works on Internet…
Getting the Netgear WN311T to work on PC-BSD/FreeBSD
Recently, I decided to try out PC-BSD. It’s essentially FreeBSD with a desktop (KDE) and various other goodies. I’ll talk about my experience with PC-BSD in another post. This one is about setting up the Netgear WN311T RangeMax NEXT Wireless Adapter to work with PC-BSD. I had heard that setting up wireless to work with…
Sulekha: A text-based Markov-chain generator
I’ve finished work on the projects page. Sometimes I’ll have a passing interest in something that leads me to write some code for fun. Yes, you read right. I like to code… for fun. Anyway, this is something I’ve done ever since I started programming way back in 1991. I’ve written a bunch of cool…
Running aterm (or any other X app) rootless, without a DOS console on Cygwin
This guide is outdated. Please check out the updated version of this guide here. On any system that I plan to use for an extended period of time, I will always install Cygwin. This is mainly because I like have UNIX tools on Windows, and also so that I can use the console to do…
Google Talk/Google IM
Google has come out with their instant messaging program. This seems to be unofficial; the only mentions I can see are on this Slashdot article, and the website I linked to. You should be able to get it to work using any Jabber client. I’ve been trying to get it to work on Trillian, but…
Mailserver troubles
I was running portupgrade -a on my FreeBSD machine when I discovered some problems. The first problem had to do with the size of my mail queue. I kept getting a “452 Insufficient system storage” message from Microsoft Outlook, along with an error code of 0x800CCC0F. I am running Postfix, and so had to edit…