Thursday July 02, 2009 |
Thursday July 02, 2009 You'd think I know where I am when at homeBeen mucking around with the ipodtouch having rescued it from the family for the last week. I have been subject to the "can't find your location" feature while at home. Google points me at Skyhook Wireless' site at GetSatisfaction and I discover that like Plazes, it uses a database solution, in this case run by Skyhook, who explain how it works on their site. This means that you need to be connected to the net to discover your location, but since that's true of the map application, its not too onerous a constraint. For a 'touch, I need to find out my router's MAC address, which is harder than I'd like; it doesn't seem to display in the control panel. I was pointed at NetStumbler, but it has to run on an operating system it supports with wireless. NB this seems to exclude Vista 64 and obviously in retrospect my desktops, so on my third install I finally discover the address and use it to update SkyHook's database. I need my Longtitude and Latitude for this, which I have never bothered to record, so I used http://www.streetmap.co.uk to get this because its easy. I had to wait ten days, but its working now. tags: technology ipodtouch apple network skyhook maps location 
(2009-07-02 11:09:51.0) Permalink And now I have a Centos VMThe reson for upgrading my Virtual BOx config is to install a Red Hat Centos image. I chose 4.7 because this seems jolly popular within the hosting community and I need a new host for my web servers. Two pieces of advice
Now I need a manual to help through all those little differences between it and Ubuntu. Is been a couple of years since I played with Red Hat's Linux. tags: technology virtualbox linux centos guest install
(2009-07-02 10:52:15.0) Permalink Comments [1] NoticeI have reduced the number of tags available in the banner. You can still use Google, or the Yesterdays Words page here which has a number of search tools for this blog.
(2009-07-02 09:58:54.0) Permalink Virtual Box 2.2.4 & Windows XPAnd with one might bound he was free.................. I downloaded Virtual Box 2.2.4 a couple of days ago, but when I tried to install it on my XP SP/3, the install process failed and rolled back. This trouble ticket, #3701 details how to fix the windows registry which was damaged at v2.2.0. Thanks to those who helped me find it. tags: technology virtualbox windows "xp sp3" windowsxp install
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