Noteworthy technical issues that were encountered and resolved.
MySQL WorkBench importing GeoIp in CSV
Not much mention of this working. alot of the info on the net is out of date. Importing CSV is possible through WorkBench. DROP TABLE […]
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Windows Phone Tethering for Samsung Focus on Bell network.
Finally figured out how to get tethering working with the Samsung Focus on Bell network. Most of the information around the net is for at&t/Cingular. […]
Windows Phone as a barebones phone
I have a Samsung Focus i917 as a test unit. First off the hardware is great. The screen’s beautiful (AMOLED), battery life is typical, with […]
persistent port forwarding
one of the challenges I’ve had to deal with regularly is port blocking. there is ways around this if you have full access to a […]
My Portable Photo Album System VS Facebook Photo Export
Turns out Facebook is finally offering a way to export their data into zip. With this feature out it competes directly with my Portable Photo […]
Secure file transfer with resuming.
I recently came across an office internet feed that was unreliable. SCP has no resuming capability so I went looking around the net for an […]
Enabling NTFS write in OSX
found this info from: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382 get the uuid from: diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name sudo vim /etc/fstab enter UUID=123-456-789 none ntfs rw replace the uuid with the […]
City TV in HD (aka CKVU-HD)
Vancouver get’s it’s 5th HD channel now. it shows up as 10.1 and according to Wikipedia, it went online earlier this month. I don’t watch […]
Sharepoint/WSS3 with Active Directories
been beating around this problem until I finally found a solution on the net that worked. http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/09/27/143831.aspx near the bottom there’s reference to setting the […]
working with Windows networks from Ubuntu
hostname resolution doesn’t get offered out of the box. you’ll need to apt-get install winbind and update /etc/nsswitch.conf to include “wins” in the “hosts” declaration. […]