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sudo apt-get install pdnsd If prompted, choose "Manual". sudo gedit /etc/pdnsd.conf Copy and paste this into the editor. // Read the pdnsd.conf(5) manpage for an explanation of the options. /* Note: this file is overriden by automatic config files when /etc/default/pdnsd AUTO_MODE is set and that /usr/share/pdnsd/pdnsd-$AUTO_MODE.conf exists */ global { perm_cache=8192; cache_dir="/var/cache/pdnsd"; run_as="pdnsd"; server_ip […]

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As far as I know, none of the geocoders consistently provide neighborhood data given a street address. Useful information when consulting the gods at google proves elusive too. Here's a step-by-step guide to obtaining neighborhood names for your street addresses (on Ubuntu). 0. Geocode your addresses if necessary using Yahoo, MapQuest or Google geocoders. (this […]

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Just discovered this gem here: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ Android apps are developed in Java Android itself is licensed in APL, but Sun's source is licensed in GPL. Furthermore, Java is not open-sourced in mobile environments. How did Google do it? Turns out that Android Uses Java as a development language but does not use Java bytecode or […]

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http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/05/15/an-overview-of-free-turn-based-strategy-and-war-games/

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Ever tried to fetch all rows from a large MySQL table? You're bound to hit up against a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. So you try searching for how to set the fetchSize, and of course, it doesn't quite work. The MySQL JDBC Driver implementation notes states: By default, ResultSets are completely retrieved and stored in memory. In most […]

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Recently stumbled on Sphinx for generating user docs. The closest alternative is docbook, so it was pretty much a no-brainer to try out Sphinx considering it lets you write documentation in the uber-friendly wiki-like ReStructuredText format. It lets you export to HTML as well as HTMLHelp and Latex/PDF. There's also a direct rst2Pdf converter too […]

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I dug into the innards of javadocs and the Standard HTML Doclet recently to do 2 things: 1. decorate the standard doclet output with my custom annotations 2. generate ReStructuredText version of the custom annotations for a user manual Its pretty cool that javadoc lets you customize output and all, but I've arrived at a […]

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Recently bought an Engenius Wireless LAN USB adapter EUB-362 EXT. There are a number of postings on Ubuntu Forums about trying to get this working on Ubuntu, with no avail. Keenan Systems from whom I bought the adapter has an out-dated howto for getting it working on Ubuntu. Here are the definitive steps to getting […]

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In Thunderbird, there's a way to customize the display of the date header in your inbox. Short answer: Go http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format and follow instructions Long answer: 1. Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Config Editor 2. Type 'dateformat' in the search box and hit enter. 3. If the following 3 entries do not appear, you'll have […]

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dom4j is one of the better XML parsing Java libraries out there. Its released under the uber-liberal BSD license, and is the brainchild of James Strachan, also of Jelly and Groovy fame. Yesterday I was working on some dom4j stuff, and noticed that www.dom4j.org (I'm not going to link to it) is no longer a […]

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