Nokia770ModifyRootFS
2007-08-19

Sometimes, it's handy to be able to modify the root filesystem of a Nokia 770 flash image. In particular, I needed to do this because I had a Nokia 770 with a broken screen. I wanted to modify the root filesystem to contain ssh, and to automatically connect to the internet. The following explains how I did it:

http://www.bluespotting.org/Nokia770/MakingAnImageForAScreenless770


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Importing old mail into GMail.... with the proper dates!
2007-08-09

So, you've decided that you want to do all of your email management from GMail. Maybe you've looked around a little, and found Mark Lyon's helpful GMail Loader. While this is a great utility, the method that it uses to import your emails causes GMail to reset the dates. While this isn't a huge issue, really, it was enough to keep me from using it as a solution... I wanted it to be perfect, or not at all. Unfortunately, this was by far the only option for importing emails.

Until recently....


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DeskbarAppletPlugin
2007-01-28

Deskbar Applet is a versatile Gnome panel applet. It places a small text entry box on your panel, and then allows you to perform a number of actions based on what you type in the text box. It's a VERY useful applet, and can replace a number of applets. For example, if you type a word, it will give you the option to look the word up in a dictionary, on wikipedia, or to execute a command if the word happens to be a command name. You can install applet handlers that allow you to install software packages, perform calculations, and do a number of other things. Since deskbar applet is written in python, it's very easy to extend its functionality, with just a little python knowledge! Read on to find out how...

Thanks to Leo Szumel for helping me out with this!


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GettingStartedWithQualNet
2006-11-27

QualNet is a commercial network simulator produced by Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. It is a commercialized version of GloMoSim, but it is completely C-based, so it does not use GloMoSim's specialized "ParSec" language. QualNet includes a graphical "scenario creator" tool, but it's often easier to simply specify qualnet configuration files by hand, and it's certainly much faster, once you're familiar with the parameters.


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