Short and Sweet
Blog URL http://johnwoconnor.blogspot.com
Located Lakewood, California USA
Tags Lakewood, Los Angeles, Technology, Long Beach, Science, Open Source, Software, Linux, Computers
Blog about technology, open source software, faux pas, and anything else interesting.
Latest Blog Posts
- Overobuntu now hosted on Gitorious on Sep 27, 2009
I've been using git lately for local version control because my programming style doesn't seem to fit too well with subversion's folder structure. I tend to prefer a bit more free-flow.So, seeing as how I've been using git for versioning anyhow, I'v...
- Palm just scored some mega cool nerd points with me on Jul 30, 2009 in Palm pre development code
Check out the code to enter developers mode on a Palm Pre. Awesome.
- How to crash your netgear router on Jul 30, 2009
Why you should never question Netgear's authority:...
- Grab your Overobuntu SD card. on Jun 16, 2009
Now, you can get Ubuntu running on your Gumstix Overo quickly and easily. Grab your Overobuntu SD Card, and get back to business.The card is formatted properly and should boot on any of the Gumstix Overo COM devices, with the proper kernel modules.
- Gumstix Development Resources on Jun 14, 2009
I've been working on the Okapi Generic Computing Device, and have found some cool documentation that is hard to find.1: The datasheet for the AVX connectors that go on your custom board can be found on the kyocera website.2: A robotics website that h...
- Using MySQL with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) on Jun 4, 2009
To use the Elastic Block Store to make the Mysql data persistent, change the location of the MySQL datadir to be the place where the persistent volume is mounted.To do this, change the datadir section of your /etc/mysql/my.cnf file to point to your E...
- Automatic Volume Snapshots using Amazon EC2 and EBS on Jun 4, 2009
The server that I've been using to host my other site, oc-technology.com, has been hosted on an Amazon Web Services EC2 server since October of 2008. This tutorial / software assumes you have an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, and are running a d...
