NottTuesday: What does the Cloud mean for your business?

By Chris | Published: 28 November, 2009

On Tuesday 10th November I went up to Nottingham for NottTuesday. The theme was What does the Cloud mean for your business? and it was all sponsored by Aware Monitoring.
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Fixing a Silent Alarm on HTC Hero

By Chris | Published: 2 November, 2009

OK, so I was using an alarm to remind me to do something, but when the alarm went off there was not sound, it only vibrated.

I went through all the settings but couldn’t get it to sound.

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Android SDK Updater: SSL Peer Shut Down Incorrectly

By Chris | Published: 1 November, 2009

I spent a lot of Saturday messing around trying to update my Android SDK and kept getting the error SSL Peer Shut Down Incorrectly just as the download seemed to be about to complete

I was using the eclipse AVD and SDK manager to upgrade, and since it wasn’t working I went looking for an alternative.

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Work Around for ADB Drivers in x64 Windows XP

By Chris | Published: 21 October, 2009

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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Automatically Deleting Sent Mail Stored By Mutt

By Chris | Published: 18 October, 2009

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.

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Counting All Files in a Linux Directory

By Chris | Published: 27 September, 2009

To count how many files there are in a directory using the terminal on a Linux machine you can combine 2 commands:

  • find
  • wc

We’ll use the find command to locate all the files (and exclude directories and other non-files) and then the wc command to count the files.

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Hello world!

By Chris | Published: 13 August, 2009

Welcome to my new blog. It’s fairly basic right now, but as I explore the customisation options and start adding to it, I’ll make this little piece of the web my own and post articles related to what I’m working on (which is generally related to computer science or management).

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