I've increasingly noticed that searching the web for answers to various technical questions gets me a lot of dead-ends or infinite loops. For example, when searching recently for information on libnss-ldap and libnss-compat, I found this forum thread: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/miscellaneous/172807-name-service-switch-file-nsswitch-conf-what-compat.html. It conveniently doesn't answer …

These days it seems I have less and less time to use my machine, let alone maintain things. At the same time I've noticed that software has become increasingly whiny and nagging when "new versions" become available. WordPress, Firefox, SumatraPDF, FileZilla, Notepad++ are just a few that come to mind …

The more I learn about the Android OS, the more disappointed I become. I don't really have a good grasp of what kind of resources are spent on developing the Android OS nor do I feel that I have a good grasp of the goals or direction of the project …

I recently installed Solaris 11 Express at work. This past Friday, I was suddenly unable to log in to the desktop after a crash/reboot. I did a lot of digging but eventually I found the right clue in \~/.xsession-errors:

.bashrc: no such file or directory

Turns out a change …

OpenBSD has proven to be quite a challenge. Let's start at the install. Unlike FreeBSD, OpenBSD doesn't have a USB stick install image. This meant, ultimately, that I needed to obtain a USB DVD drive to be able to install the OS. Additionally, I've encountered numerous roadblocks to installing Eclipse …

The HTC Hero (wikipedia, htc US) is my current personal handset. This phone runs the Android OS. My handset runs Android 1.5. I've been trying to get the developer kit to build on FreeBSD but haven't had much luck. It is rumored that Android 2.1 will become available …

HTC in conjunction with Sprint/Nextel have released (on Oct 11th, to be exact) a new CDMA handset powered by the Android OS. I picked up one of these the following Monday, Oct 12th at a Best Buy Mobile local to me. (The Sprint Store was sold out.) As I …

Apologies in advance. This is a mess, and pretty much a "brain dump", but I'd rather it be messy and more inclusive than not out there at all since I'll have limited time to work on it. Please bear with me as I get through this disaster.

The Mac: A …

This page is an anchor for my sub-projects on researching "Open" phones. "Open" is defined here to mean a phone which is not designed or configured to preclude customization or utilization of the phone itself apart from necessary restrictions on use of the radio in contravention with the service agreement …

Let the games begin.