Archive for September, 2007

Darwin 6.2 on VMWare on Fedora Core 7

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Should have been a straight forward process but quirks in the Darwin installer added around one (1) hour of twiddling to an otherwise simple process. Here is what I had to do to get it all working.

Download Darwin OSX install image. You can do this by visiting the Apple Open Source website that contains a […]

Software Freedom Day 2007

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

I just came from the Software Freedom Day 2007 celebration here at the National Computer Center (NCC). This celebration was organized by the Bluepoint Foundation. Here is a copy of my presentation materials on Open Source in Mobility. In this presentation, I gave an overview of the current mobile, open source and Internet ecosystems and […]

Conquering the Apple iPhone II - Tested on Globe and Smart Postpaid

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

This is the next phase of my iPhone cracking exercise. No need for turbosims, supersims, soldering and paying. Yes, its free. Thanks to the iPhone Dev Wiki (link widtheld) folks. The first installment can be found here. However, this guide should be standalone since I am flashing the phone and restoring to factory settings.
Here […]

Parallel Computing: Quick Guide to Configuring NFS

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Providing common shared storage is an important part of parallel computing. Being able to share files between compute nodes in a parallel cluster is key to getting a parallel job done. This is a follow-up article on configuring OpenMPI for Parallel Computing. You need to do this to get other nodes to play in your […]

Pinoy Top Blogs Sold for an Undisclosed Sum

Friday, September 7th, 2007

We are not quite used to seeing Filipino entrepreneurs sell their creations on this new dotCom market. So, I believe this one makes it news worthy. Here is a link from his blog describing the sale.
After several months of negotiations, I have finally agreed to sell the Pinoy Top Blogs project. It’s a decision […]