Oct 21
Recently came across this article:
http://speculation.org/garrick/kill-9.html
In short kill the processes with INT option, then it would most likely delete any temporary files, shutdown sockets, remove shared memory segments, close open files, or some other task. Killing with -9 option can result in intermittent issues resulting in un-deleted temporary files etc
October 21st, 2009 in
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Sep 10
iTunes 9 introduces Genius for Apps:
Apple today introduced new features with iTunes version 9.0. One of the interesting feature is Genius for iPhone Apps. Similar to music, the new Genius for apps will take a look at your current apps and then go find similar ones.
Article comparing iTunes 8.0 vs iTunes 9.0
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/09/itunes-90-clean.php
September 10th, 2009 in
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Jul 25
Problem: jvm terminated exit code=-1 Eclipse Galileo Mac OS X
Recently I ran into this issue with Eclipse Galileo on Mac OS X 10.5.5
My environment:
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.5
Eclipse: 3.5
JDK: 1.6
Edit the eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist;
Uncomment the line which points to -vm /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Commands/java. And you are done 😀
Jul 12
How to check if someone has blocked you on Google Talk:
Do you want to know if your ‘friend’ has blocked you?
Try this:
First install Pidgin messenger.
- Follow this steps to setup GTalk on Pidgin
Setup Pidgin For GTalk.
- Login to Gmail account using Pidgin. Go to: Buddies–> Show –> Offline Buddies. To make sure you have everyone on the list.
- Right click on Contact–> Get Info
- If any information appears for the Contact something like Full Name, Picture etc. then you should be okay. If it’s blank then your ‘Friend’ definitely blocked you & don’t want to chat with you ;).
July 12th, 2009 in
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Jul 09
According to post on Google Blog, Google is coming up with new operating system:
It says:
“It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web
July 9th, 2009 in
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Jun 25
Flash comes to Android based HTC Hero:
Finally HTC launched new series of android based HTC Hero mobile phone which can support Adobe Flash. Looks like it’s going to be gaming device ;).
As quoted on Adobe site
June 25th, 2009 in
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Jun 17
Recently I came across open source testing tools used for automating web browsers. The tools I used were Watir and Cucumber.
After running basic installation steps from respective sites, I ran into several issues. I’m just posting the work around for that problems.
Problem 1: After running rake if you see "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"
Solution:
Don't install Ruby where directory name has spaces in it.
Problem 2: no such file to load spec/expectations*,* failed to load features/support/env.rb
Solution:
If you see something like this, then update/install rspec
Problem 3: uninitialized constant Windows::API::Error (NameError)
Solution:
Happens due to older version of windows-pr
gem uninstall windows-pr
gem install windows-pr
Apr 24
This method will get all the file/folder names from a windows folder to a text file
the key command here is “>” symbol, which means “create a new file with the screen output”
The syntax is :
C:\>folderpath> dir > filename.txt
Example:
Goto the command prompt from windows
C:\>
C:\>cd foldername or folderpath
C:\foldername>
C:\foldername> dir > filelist.txt
The filelist.txt will be created in the same folder of which the list of files is requested.
To change the location of the txt file
C:\foldername> dir > D:filelist.txt (now it will be created in the D drive)
April 24th, 2009 in
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Apr 16
Enable Syntax Coloring in VIM Editor on Mac OS X:
Simple way to enable syntax highlighting on Mac OS X:
– Locate your VIM installation on Mac OS X.
– By default it should be /usr/share/vim
– As a “root” edit vimrc file under vim folder & Add following statements
syntax on
set hlsearch
set incsearch
– You can add more options based on the VIM Guidelines
– You are done. 🙂
April 16th, 2009 in
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Apr 13
Apple iPhone V3.0 With Copy-Paste & Push Notification??:
I recently found out that iPhone version 3.0 supposed to release in Summer 2009 is going to have Copy-paste & push notification functionality.
The ability to cut, copy and paste text will be available for e-mails, Web pages and other programs on the device, as will another key feature: the ability to send photos
April 13th, 2009 in
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