iPhone is coming to China

I'm sure the Chinese will love the iPhone, but if you live in the U.S. and get 5 miles off the interstate you have no service from AT&T.

Many people buy the iPhone but I doubt so many use it, because service here sucks.  Unless you stay on the interstate or live in a big city, forget the iPhone.

Blackberry Curve 8330 no Internet!

Make sure you are on one of your providers towers before doing registering.

Thinking I knew the solution to that “bug,” I did Options > Advanced Options > Host Routing Table > (press Menu key) > Register Now.

Imagining the TENTH Dimension

This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension"

http://tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

Installing XV Graphics Viewer in Ubuntu 8.04

I followed the script in the ref below but ran into problem when building XV in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy. Note that my system has most all the build-essentials and stuff required for developers but these are some things it was missing; therefore, you may still be missing some packages since the basic ubuntu install is not really designed for the developer.

#!/bin/bash
# getxv.sh
#
cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/png-mng/xv-3.10a-jumbo-patches-20050501.tar.gz
wget http://bok.fas.harvard.edu/debian/xv/xv-3.10a-jumbo20050501-1.diff.gz
tar xvzf xv-3.10a.tar.gz
tar xvzf xv-3.10a-jumbo-patches-20050501.tar.gz
gzip -d xv-3.10a-jumbo20050501-1.diff.gz
cd xv-3.10a
patch -p1 < ../xv-3.10a-jumbo-fix-patch-20050410.txt
patch -p1 < ../xv-3.10a-jumbo-enh-patch-20050501.txt
patch -p1 < ../xv-3.10a-jumbo20050501-1.diff
chmod 755 debian/rules 
apt-get install libc6-dev
# In Ubuntu I had to change this to xorg-dev meta package
#apt-get install xlibs-dev
apt-get install xorg-dev
apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
apt-get install libtiff4-dev
apt-get install libpng12-dev
make
cp xv /usr/local/bin

ref: Installing the XV Graphics Program in Ubuntu

VLC and Other codecs to play videos in Ubuntu

# WARNING: IF YOU HAVE JAUNTY, CHANGE "hardy.list to jaunty.list
#Install VLC and Other codecs to play video, dvd, and mp3
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
apt-get update
apt-get install libdvdcss2 w32codecs non-free-codecs
apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade