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sdk2unix for symbian on linux
After a week of messing around with windoze and linux toolkits, I finally did a successful build and run of an example app on my nokia 3650 using Symbian C++. Was it any of the toolkits I’ve already mentioned that I used? No, it was sdk2unix , a seemingly wonderful (hey it works!) distro by Rudolf Koenig and distributed at the Knowledge-Intelligence AG site (some kind of german company). They’ve got howto’s for a bunch of symbian platforms, but note in particular the Series60 (SymbianOS 6.1) SDK on Linux/Unix HOWTO which is what I followed.
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gnupoc
The project named GnuPoc a Symbian SDK for GNU/Linux. What is this? It purports to allow you to develop all your Symbian C++ code on linux. I installed it this week on a fresh debian system. Installation, I have to say, was not exactly trivial. There didn’t seem to be any particular HOWTO that covered the Nokia 1.2 SDK very closely. I installed, configured, and built the series60ex/helloworld project finally, got the thing to generate a .sis file, installed it on my 3650 and… nothing. “System Error”. That’s all. So what gives? I have no idea.
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Technorati profile
Technorati Profile . I just listed my blog with technorati and they want me to put that link into as a flag for their spider or something like that. Are they trying to boost their google results or something? Who knows.
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Pagerank odd
My links page has no pagerank. Neither does my writings page . But my AxKit HOWTO has 7/10. What’s up with that?
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Windows hassles
After years, years of avoiding serious Windows use I’m finally having to wrestle with two Microsoft products. Windows 2000 and Virtual PC. Although the “Virtual Switch” mode of VPC is specifically intended to allow you to log into the windows box as a separate entity from the host Mac OS X box, this only kinda sorta works. I can log into VPC from a different computer – the iMac in the other room for example. No problem. But I can’t log in from the same machine (the host). So for now my workaround is to create a circular connection where I mount the windows drive on my iMac and then mount that on my powerbook.
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VPC 6.1
I just installed Virtual PC 6.1 and it’s actually faster than 5 was by quite a bit. Also my google pagerank is 6/10. Is that high? I can’t remember what it was last time I checked.
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How creative is that?
It’s just an anecdote, but<blockquote>
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wireless-longhaul mailing list
My goal with the wireless-longhaul mailing list was to create a truly global list for discussing Wi-fi over long distances. Urban and rural. This month there was an exchange that I think shows it’s worked at least somewhat. Looking at whois and google, one poster is from Istanbul, one is I think in Congo, one is in New Zealand and another is in California. Four people, four continents, and all different kinds of society.
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The problem with dolphins
It’s not the dolphins. It’s the people who study them. The whole field of people who are interested in dolphins are slightly weird. It doesn’t take much googling to divide into some special camps: the protesters, the romantics, the healers, the fun-seekers. The noise makes it difficult to find useful information on the web.
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Dolphins
How fast can dolphins swim? Very fast, as fast as the fastest boats. What’s their average cruising speed? According to [1] it’s about 8 km/h. They do sleep and when they sleep they don’t move much. It is difficult to track dolphin travel over long periods of time but lately there’s been some progress it seems. Check out this graphical view (“Track the dolphins”) of three dolphins around Bermuda. Even with tracking the crew reported difficulty in actually finding the animals with their boat.<blockquote>
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