My new PocketPC – sort of

Someday I’m probably going to take the plunge and replace my Treo 650 with some kind of Windows Mobile device, since the Windows Mobile devices always seem to have more features like 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and a nice amount of RAM. Actually, “someday” might’ve gotten a bit sooner after yesterday, when my wife called me . . . → Read More: My new PocketPC – sort of

Fixing NO_PUBKEY 2E2BCDBCB38A8516 error from Oracle Debian repository

Folks running and Debian, Ubuntu, etc. may be aware that Oracle has a Debian repository for Oracle Express and other open-source software.

If you weren’t aware of it and wanted to use it, here’s the magic line to add to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free

Recently, my apt-get updates started printing this warning:

W: GPG error: http://oss.oracle.com unstable Release: . . . → Read More: Fixing NO_PUBKEY 2E2BCDBCB38A8516 error from Oracle Debian repository

Working around an mzscheme install error in Ubuntu

Here’s a minor fix for an mzscheme/slib snafu on Ubuntu Edgy Eft.

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New version of Del.icio.us Firefox extension

If you tried Yahoo’s Del\.icio\.us Firefox extension in the past and didn’t like the fact that it eliminated the notion of local bookmarks, it’s time to take another look. Don’t take my word for it, as I work on it, but check out this post from Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day.

And a few choice quotes:

“Del.icio.us . . . → Read More: New version of Del.icio.us Firefox extension

links for 2007-02-23

A (hopefully) painless introduction to monads
This introduction is intended for experienced programmers beginning to learn pure functional programming. All the code samples are in Haskell.
(tags: monads haskell)

ncdu » NCurses Disk Usage – //YorHels Projects
As the name already suggests, ncdu is an NCurses version of the famous old ‘du’ unix command.
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Yahoo Search Sidebar 1.2

I updated my Yahoo Search Sidebar Firefox extension to version 1.2. The only changes are that it works with Firefox 2.0 and I eliminated a bunch of global JavaScript symbols, which is a good Firefox extension development practice for preventing extension conflicts.

This Firefox extension adds a "Yahoo! Search" item in Firefox's View | Sidebar
menu (Alt+Y is . . . → Read More: Yahoo Search Sidebar 1.2

links for 2007-02-21

Ceph – Petascale Distributed Storage
Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.
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