I just got a new Droid X. First off, I love the phone. Its got great hardware and features, and is a pleasure to use. And no, I do not think its to big.

Only issue so far with the phone itself, is WiFi connectivity. Unlike some others who have dropped connections and slow speeds on WiFi, I actually had router freezes when the Droid was connected.

I am using WPA2 with AES. Once I changed to TKIP, my issues went away. Hopefully this will be fixed soon with a software update. Would be a shame to let something very minor effect such an amazing phone.

I wanted to get text updates to my phone for the World Cup. Rather than pay ESPN $4.99, use New York Times. It’s free.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/soccer/index.html

Text WORLDCUP to 698698.

Wow, what a great report on the post mortem of the Apache breach.

Going through the site statistics for sekoconcepts.net, it appears OS X is on the rise in my logs.

Windows – 49%
Macintosh – 16.3%
Linux – 11.9%

And for browsers:

Firefox – 40.9%
IE – 13.2%
Safari – 8.5%
Opera – 0.8%

Certainly higher shares of Linux and OS X than I previously was seeing, of course this could have something to do with the subject matter on posts. The highlight for me is seeing IE so low on the browser share. The quicker IE dies off the happier I am.

A while back, rather than add in a new Samba share through the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, I used the GUI tool to add the share. When I went looking to edit some shares tonight, I started digging through the config files… to my initial surprise I was unable to find the share locations in the config file.

A little more searching, and I found the files located in /var/lib/samba/usershares/. I guess the GUI adds a text file for each share into this directory. In a way, I like this slightly better for organization. Yet it confused me at first expecting to find the results in the main config file.

After searching, apparently the smb.conf is old school for share locations. This was introduced into Samba v3.0.23, which itself is from 2007 or so. Guess I need to get out more. Now I want to look if this is the “default” for Ubuntu Server.

Lately I try to avoid politics in my posts, yet I thought this was a really good quote.

“To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper’s online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth…. [O]bjective reality does not change because you refuse to accept it. The fact that you refuse to acknowledge a wall does not change the fact that it’s a wall. And you shouldn’t have to hit it to find that out.” – Leonard Pitts Jr

A while back, I had reformatted my system with HFS+ Case Sensitive. I didn’t have a good reason, other than I was familiar with Unix/Linux file systems. So after a few months of running this way, I reinstalled with HFS+. Reasons? Application support, or lack of. Its been a few months, but off the top of my head the following would not work on HFS+ CS.

-Adobe CS4 Suite
-Oracle IRM
-World of Warcraft

On top of the application issues, it is highly annoying when my backed up data cannot be copied from my HFS+ CS DMG due to file name conflicts. I had to manually change names, and merge folders. Ugh!

When running Starteam 2008R2 Universal Client with OS X, the Java implementation included with the OS will not allow the application to run. It will give an error stating “Can’t adjust composition mode on Mac OS X”.

To get around this, I used SoyLatte, a port of BSD Java onto OS X. I used the 64bit Intel binary for 10.5. This worked for me with 10.6,

Grab the binary and expand contents. Then move the contents to a new directory. I used /usr/local/soylatte.

Next, run the setup in starteam universal client.

./setup

You will be asked for the location to the Java directory. Do not use the default install, rather use the soylatte. /usr/local/soylatte.

Now run the app.

./starteam

This works on my MacBook Core2Duo. Earlier today I tried this on a PPC MacBook Pro with 10.5. It did not work, yet I think this had more to do with the Java build. The only PPC binary I saw when quickly browsing the main page was for OpenJDK 7 Beta.

I am working on a few certifications (Linux, OS X, etc) currently. Between that, full time school and full time work… Little time to update the site.

So just thought I would make a post so I have a current month on here. :)

I am liking the new company so far, and its a great place to work. I would mention the name, but I am not allowed to. Blogging policy and all. The biggest thing I have learned in 1 week so far? How little I really know, its humbling. Having knowledge of technology and having real world experiences getting said technology to function in the work place are two completely different things. I have a lot to learn, and that’s exciting. Scary at the same time though.