i’ve been playing with several Linux distros lately, running them as virtual machines with Windows 7 64bit as my host OS. my first attempts at getting the latest Ubuntu (11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”) and then Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” installed and fully working with VMware tools were a little chaotic. so i thought i would document the process for any other VMware/Linux newbies.…
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DeathBurro was released as 1.0.0.0 beta yesterday!
i took donkey into Aimee’s work during her department’s Christmas lunch. we had a little trouble getting on the network, all were either secured with EAP-TLS or browser login & terms-acceptance pages. there are ways to make this work, and so we’ll get it going eventually.…
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donkeys cause trouble. they aren’t called asses for no reason.
quite a while back donkey started actin real funny like. turning off randomly, locking up the screen, not coming on at all on the first try. eventually, even when he would spring to life, the touchscreen input was upside down (making it nearly impossible to just navigate the options screens to reset him)……
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i’d like to try and compile a small Java app to native bytecode for a specific ARM-Linux board to see what the performance differences is (versus running through the Java SE interpreter). so far no love.
my impression of free open source software…
research this whole cross-compiling idea and Java compilers for a couple days.…
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it’s been years since i’ve soldered anything beyond medium gauge wire splices, but with a new project, it was time this week to dust off the trusty 12 watt Weller pencil.
the first thing i did was solder nine 26 AWG stranded leads from a hacked up serial cable to the tiny ass pads on this microcontroller board i have.…
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“make the donkey light-up when someone breaks the build” – that’s how it all started….
backstory
so my GF Aimee is a Software QA – at her work they have an internal application named Death Burrito which has a donkey logo (that’s it’s own story). so i guess this actually started when someone bought one of those little road-side welded metal-art sculptures of a donkey in for the team.…
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the favicon.ico
works in Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome (and others). also works in Windows when dragging a shortcut to the desktop.
if you windows desktop support, embedd a 32×32 and 48×48 pixel version in the same .ico file
if, like most people, the art if tiny icon creation is baffles you – the simplest solution is to use one of the many web tools that take a normal picture and create the .ico for you.…
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