July 30, 2010
Yesterday I wrote about accusations of spyware on the Android Market. Today, the story got a bit more complicated. First of all, the anti-spyware vendor which originated the story “clarified” their findings, saying: While the data this app is accessing is certainly suspicious coming from a wallpaper app, we want to be clear that there [...]
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July 29, 2010
In the news right now are a set of Android wallpaper apps by Jackeey Wallpaper, that are alleged to steal user data and send it to a web site operated by someone in China. Many people are taking this as some sort of proof that Apple’s jailed developer approach is the only one that can [...]
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June 1, 2010
Lotus Domino’s LotusScript language has a function called Format. If you pass it a date/time value, and use the custom format string “ww”, it’s supposed to return the week number. Unfortunately, it returns the wrong value. I was prepared to be charitable and assume that it returned the correct value according to some non-standard algorithm, [...]
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May 7, 2010
Suppose you want to install a DB2 server, and connect to it from some client software. If you browse the IBM DB2 Software pages, you’ll soon find that there’s a bewildering array of products with confusingly similar names. For example, IBM Data Server Client and IBM Data Server Runtime Client are two different things. Fortunately, [...]
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April 12, 2010
A script to safely and automatically remove unneeded kernels from Ubuntu systems.
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March 2, 2010
As I’ve written before, date and time calculations are surprisingly difficult. What’s more, even the bits that aren’t difficult often get messed up. Sony have just demonstrated this. Apparently, a firmware bug in the real time clock in some models of PS3 lead the RTC to think that 2010 is a leap year. This confused [...]
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January 31, 2010
In October of last year, someone built a new RubyGems hosting site called Gemcutter. Everyone liked it so much that GitHub decided to stop offering RubyGem hosting, and point people at Gemcutter instead. Then the maintainer of RubyGems decided to make Gemcutter the default repository for gems when you install RubyGems. Then RubyForge decided to [...]
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December 1, 2009
A post about the three types of null value in LotusScript, and how they differ.
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September 25, 2009
I often have to shunt around Lotus Domino databases, as well as all kinds of log files and bundles of XML data. I’ve got a cable modem connection to my home office, but still, uploads can take a while. So data compression is still important to me, and the newer LZMA algorithm can make a [...]
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May 8, 2009
apt-get install openjdk-6-openjdk icedtea6-plugin update-java-alternatives -s java-6-openjdk For some inexplicable reason, Eclipse for Java Developers doesn’t include JDBC. Eclipse J2EE edition doesn’t work with OpenJDK. Oh well.
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