Monthly Archives: December 2010

I want Gingerbread!

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Mark

Well turns out Im not the only one googling for Gingerbread, but it looks like getting OS updates with Android isn’t as smooth ride like with iPhone. Im a coder so I understand hardware compatibility issues, ble ble ble. Fuck that man, dont give me that bullshit. Dudes, you want to create a platform that supposed to beat iPhones OSX ass, keep up with the reality! Do you expect people to wait for handset manufacturer to approve and mod each new OS version, then go through the same with the carrier. Who are you kidding. That will take months if ever happens. Bottom line is that if you have an Android device you are stuck with what you have now. Continue reading →

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CentOS VPN setup

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Mark

Quick guide to setup VPN in CentOS (my platform i386): wget http://poptop.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel5/i386/pptpd-1.3.4-2.rhel5.i386.rpm rpm -ivh pptpd-1.3.4-2.rhel5.i386.rpm nano /etc/pptpd.conf Go to the end of the file where you can see examples of localip and remoteip. Below them add your own values for … Continue reading →

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Acer Aspire One CentOS 5 – network problem

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Mark

Acer Aspire One running CentOS 5, network card problem solved with rpm -Uvh kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.9-2.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm
This post explains where to download necessary files from and how to install them. Continue reading →

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