The Problem
I was recently doing some housekeeping on my websever: removing archived software downloads that I no longer needed and looking for any problems when I found one that initially had me stumped. Looking at the size of my home directory, I found it was around 600mb with no immediately obvious reason as to why.
I have hardly any files in my home directory, so I quickly located the problem to ~/Mailbox/.Sent/cur, which is, as the path suggests, related to my email server. It looked like copies of my sent mail was being stored and not deleted.
Work Around for ADB Drivers in x64 Windows XP
My final year project is a ticket booking system for a mobile device, and I’ve chosen to target Android and develop an application for my HTC Hero.
I followed the set up instructions in my copy of Android Application Development (which are pretty much the same as the instructions on the Android Dev site), but when I tried to run a simple Hello World type app on my handset I had problems.
I would plug my phone in, as per the instructions, but it wouldn’t be detected. Eclipse is supposed to recognise my phone as valid build target and be able to install and run the app on my phone via USB, but it didn’t.
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