Problems and Policies of Developing Nations

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• New Media (Internet) gripe with Old Media (TV/Radio) April 21, 2013
  What I don't understand about the Old Media (OM) intransigence on moving to streaming on the web is that the more exposure the better. For example, if I can get MSNBC streaming on my phone (say the audio track) to keep up on news, I still get all the advertisements as if I were watching (advertising dollars) and it would be one more person to watch or l […]
• Configuring Sendmail when your ISP (Verizon) blocks port 25 April 18, 2013
  So it took me a couple of days to figure this out, and it was mainly from trial and error with help from internet postings.Basically, I wanted to configure sendmail such that I can still have my "From" state that it's from my own domain. When I first tried to use SSL 465 to connect to my outgoing.verizon.net server, everything was working fine […]
• k9copy/vlc woes with libdvdcss March 19, 2013
  So I was trying to watch a dvd the other day on my desktop. It worked fine on the laptop with the same version of vlc, so I was flummoxed. I tried k9copy and various other programs to make sure that it wasn't a problem with the dvd player. Sure enough I placed the dvd into my laptop and all the other programs worked fine. I figured out that it was a pro […]
• Java LDAP API February 15, 2013
  So I have a project at work where I would need to access an LDAP. I knew that there are a few LDAP API's for Java. What I didn't know was how awful most of them were. Based on the following StackOverflow posting, I decided to give the Apache API a try first. It was a big two day mistake. I decided on it, because I know that Apache has some pretty g […]
• xauth quickie February 6, 2013
  Apparently the latest version of xauth utils removes the mkxauth utility. mkxauth was a useful quickie for merging Xauthority files (i.e.: if you have to run a GUI application through sudo from an SSH session.) The following seems to work for me now with the standard xauth command:[normaluser@host ~]$ xauth nlist | sudo xauth -f /root/.Xauthority nmerge - […]