Category Archives: Linux, Mac, and LAMP Open Source

Best iPhone App ever, if you commute by Bus in Boston – Open MBTA

By daigo | Published: Monday, February 1, 2010
Amazing. Recently, I wrote about how I was disappointed that I (stupidly) paid $0.99 for an app called Catch The Bus. That paid application only supports 5 MBTA bus lines. On that post, I got a comment that said “Hey Check out OpenMBTA mobile website.” The website was awesome. Once you get used to the [...]
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Curious about internet using cellphone

By daigo | Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I subscribe to very expensive data plan at T-mobile (Not that I am proud of that). I use T-Mobile Shadow. But I really felt that I was missing out on stuff. There has to be so much more I can do with the cellphone web. And, so, I started my own cellphone portal at daigo.mobi. [...]
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Trying to install Xubuntu on iMac G3/333

By daigo | Published: Saturday, December 27, 2008
I have been trying to install Xubuntu on G3/333 but to no avail at this point. Sort I should take memo here so that at least it will all be in one place. iMac is my wife’s old computer that was sitting in the basement. I wanted to recycle this and maybe give it to [...]
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Server setup

By daigo | Published: Monday, October 27, 2008
Just a running memo for myself, as I struggle to set up my ubuntu server… Crap. Server edition doesn’t have any GUI. I guess that is why it is called server edition. Doing install over with Desktop Edition. I just need SSH, LAMP environment and Samba. Mythbuntu has those already, but Ubuntu Desktop doesn’t seem [...]
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Renewed appreciation for my iPod video

By daigo | Published: Friday, January 18, 2008
It took me a while to figure it out, so just a memo… I got 5th generation iPod with video capability, but I always felt that I am not using it to its capacity. Since there are many video websites online, and sometimes I wish I had a local copy so I could put it on [...]
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Upgrading the WordPress installation

By daigo | Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
I have many WordPress 2.0.1 installations on my computer. I need to upgrade them to 2.2.1… Here is my notes on what I did and what happened. I was able to upgrade this blog to 2.2.1, but I had problem with my Japanese language websites. OK, so it was a worst case scenario, really. As [...]
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Upgrading Drupal

By daigo | Published: Thursday, July 12, 2007
I have to admit that I was lazy and have not upgraded one of my Japanese language Drupal site since it was installed in 4.5.0 some time in 2004. I have finally gotten around to think about upgrading. Well, stupifd comment spam forced me to upgrade, to tell you the truth. But since Drupal went through [...]
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Today’s Flash “gotcha” that wasted me hours…

By daigo | Published: Friday, October 20, 2006
These days, I am wrestling with Action Script a lot… I couldn’t move between scenes from a universal navigation component… Why Doesn’t _root.gotoAndPlay() Work with Scenes? Lessons learned: don’t use _root, or scenes (too much, anyway) setInterval. Macromedia site Cool trick: Creating a Toggle Button with ActionScript I am starting to buying into the whole ActionScript stuff…
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MI Edit rocks!

By daigo | Published: Thursday, July 20, 2006
I am working on this sort of fun project which involves using Zen-Cart, open source shopping cart, but in Japanese. (BTW, for Japanese language pack, this support thread was very useful… Thank you Shida-san of Japanese language support group). During this process, I hit a minor problem. Zen cart send out an e-mail alerts (such [...]
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Localized solution for local audience

By daigo | Published: Monday, July 3, 2006
I have decided to team up with a friend, Hiro Nakano, to make my podcast more frequent and exciting. Hiro is about the most interesting and smartest guy I know and I am really excited about it. However there is something that has bothering me for a quite a while. I use WordPress for creating [...]
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