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I have tried to install Android SDK (r12) to start playing with developing applications for the platform. For no reason, I picked Windows XP Sp3 as my development OS. Customary to getting started with new programming language or platform is to create the equivalent "Hello World". The sample program was small and easy to digest but running it for the first time was not a good experience. The default Android Virtual Device configuation as per the tutorial keeps crashing on Windows XP. This is the message that I am seeing: emulator-arm.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience Searching the blogosphere shows the following sites that standout: Emulator.exe not working properly ( stackoverflow ) Emulator crash on QVGA-L resolution ( Google Code ) The information from Stackoverflow did give a good hint as to what might be the issue. It seems like the Android SDK, specially the emulator, does not like spaces in the directories

Connecting from Windows Server 2008 R2 from Linux is made easy using rdesktop. But if you want to connect from your W2k8 box to another Windows box, as part of Windows security you are requested to send CTRL+ALT+END. Doing so does not work. So what's the key sequence to send secure attention sequence ? It is Control+Alt+End :(

It is time for me again to upgrade my Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhall) as a guest machine. I know I know I should use Linux in my host machine but my main work is basically using Windows so no escaping for me to  use this OS if I want to keep relevant in the workplace. Nothing is really earth shattering with the new release except for the much debated Unity. Other than that  same old same old in the Linux land. Below is my VirtualBox guest configuration: General Name: ubu1104 OS Type: Ubuntu System Base Memory: 1024 MB Processor(s): 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 64 MB 3D Acceleration: Enabled 2D Video Acceleration: Disabled Remote Desktop Server: Disabled Storage IDE Controller IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): Empty SATA Controller SATA Port 0: ubu1104.vdi (Normal, 80.00 GB) Audio Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, Realtek

Just installed Google Chrome v12 in openSUSE 11.4, everything seems great. But when I tried to run it nothing happens. I fired up konsole and this shows up timus@opensuse114:~/Downloads> google-chrome /usr/bin/google-chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory timus@opensuse114:~/Downloads> Looks like we have missing dependencies. Searching repo, like: zypper search libpng shows the following... S | Name                  | Summary                                                      | Type   --+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+--------   | libpng12-0            | Library for the Portable Network Graphics Format (PNG)       | package   | libpng12-compat-devel | Development Tools for applications which will use the Libpng | package   | libpng12-devel        | Development Tools for applications which will use the Libpng | package i | li

Linux Mint 10 (Julia) was released Nov 12, 2010 which feels like eons ago in Linux land. But hey I wanna play around with it before I jump to Linux Mint 11. Overall feel is good, installation was uneventful. The interface is pretty clean and well structured. This is what I like best with Mint. Anyway, this is old news but would like to keep a log of how the installation screen looks like. Below are the screen captures. Of course Linux distribution comes with thousands of utilities but I think the following are worth to mention: Linux kernel: 2.6.35 GNOME: 2.32.0 X org: 1.9.0 ~ts

Tools to clean up xml files abound in  the internet. But if you have a need to do batch processing of a bunch of files or just the plan joy of doing it from the command line then you can use xmllint . If you are using openSUSE, Ubuntu or Linux Mint 10 (and many other Linux distro) then this is come pre-installed. xmllint is flexible and have way more features than shown below but this should give you a taste of the tools usefulness. So to tidy up an xml file do: xmllint –format ugly.xml –output pretty.xml ~ts

I just got the time to play around openSUSE 11.4 which was released last March 10, 2011. From the outside, nothing much changed between 11.3 and 11.4 especially in the installation department (seems like they are exactly the same except for the new artwork/background). Why change if it is working? Without too much ado... here comes the screen grabs. Additional information: kernel: 2.6.37 KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" X org: 1.9.3 Have fun!!! ~ts