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Don't have a webcam but have a Wireless Network and a iPhone? Found an awesome app that will allow you to install drivers to talk to your iPhone using Bonjour and share the camera with appications like Skype.
There are drivers for Windows + Mac OS X

iPhone Webcamera
Get the Drivers here - App on the iTunes App Store
Tags: 4, cam, camera, iphone, web, webcam, webcamera
Posted in g33k |
Browsing 'Cupidtino' (http://cupidtino.com/) quote from a female stating that your her type if
"You're more Woz than Jobs"
Great stuff - haha. Woz is a legend.
Tags: Jobs, man, more, quote, than, type, Woz, You're
Posted in g33k, humour |
Well after I tried myself months ago to get istatd to compile on my Opensolaris box (token) someone smarter and who is not as lazy has worked it all out and got it to compile. One thing he did not do tho was write an init script so that it would start @ boot time. Here you can find it.
Please follow the install instructions on the following blog - I have written scripts, included a sample configuration and written a init script.
Karim Berrah's Weblog
Compile Script (Place in parent dir to source code):
[bash]
#!/bin/bash
DIR=istatd-
VER=0.5.7
ACLOCAL110=aclocal-1.10
export ACLOCAL110
AUTOMAKE110=automake-1.10
export AUTOMAKE110
AUTOCONF26=autoconf
export AUTOCONF26
AUTOHEADER26=autoheader
export AUTOHEADER26
LIBTOOLIZE15=libtoolize
export LIBTOOLIZE15
cd ${DIR}${VER}
pwd
./configure
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR with configure"
fi
make
echo "--> Finished compiling ..."
pfexec useradd istat
pfexec groupadd istat
if [ ! -d /var/cache/istat ]; then
mkdir /var/cache/istat
fi
pfexec chown istat:istat /var/cache/istat
echo "--> Finished ..."
[/bash]
Sample Config:
[plain]
#
# /etc/istat.conf: Configuration for iStat server
#
# network_addr 127.0.0.1
network_port 5901
server_code 55551
server_user istat
server_group istat
# server_socket /tmp/istatd.sock
server_pid /var/run/istat/istatd.pid
cache_dir /var/cache/istat
# Note: Only support for one network interface, limited by client.
monitor_net ( bge0 )
# Array of disks to monitor. Specify mount path or device name.
monitor_disk ( / /home )
# Set to 1 if you want to use mount path as label instead of the device name.
disk_mount_path_label 0
# Try to probe the filesystem for disk label, will override the mount path label.
disk_filesystem_label 1
# Set custom disk label. Will override all other labels.
# disk_rename_label /dev/sda1 "root"
# disk_rename_label /home "home"
# End of file
[/plain]
Init Script:
[bash]
#!/bin/bash
# Basic support for chkconfig
###
# chkconfig: 35 99 55
# description: start and stop istatd - iphone monitoring tool daemon
###
DIR=/usr/local/bin/
BINARY=istatd
OPTS="-d"
PIDFILE=/var/run/istat/istatd.pid
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $BINARY ... "
$DIR/$BINARY $OPTS
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "! Failed !"
else
echo "done"
fi
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $BINARY ... "
kill $(cat $PIDFILE)
echo "done"
;;
status)
ps -ef | grep "$BINARY $OPTS"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|status|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
[/bash]
ln -s /etc/init.d/istatd /etc/rc3.d/S99istatd
ln -s /etc/init.d/istatd /etc/rc3.d/K10istatd
If someone has written a SMF service I would love to take it from you 🙂
If you have any questions - feel free to ask ...
Tags: compile, ipad, iphone, istat, istatd, opensolaris, script
Posted in g33k, solaris |
So I have parted my cheeks and bought a new Nvidia GTX 280gtx for my Hackintosh / Win7 i7 920 6gb of memory desktop machine. It also caused me to buy a new Coomaster 650W PSU to power the power hungry fella and Zalman 10x Quiet CPU Cooler. Dam it's a nice GPU, despite it requiring 40 amps on the 12v rail !
So I did some benchmarking ...

Nvidia 9800gt 3d Mark Score

Nvidia 280tgtx 3d Mark Score
So we can see a small increase there, especially on the raw GPU score ... 🙂
And apparently my Windows experience is now better !

Windows with a 9800gt

Windows with a 280gtx
So, time for me to get Steam again and come back to some online gaming ... Let me know what I should be playing 🙂
Tags: 280gtx, 3d, 9800gt, benchmark, cooper, gpu, mark, new, nvidia, vantage
Posted in g33k, tech |
Awesome stuff. Was a lot of kit rolled out @ the Cataract Scout Park by Alan, Brett, Colin, Todd and myself - Plus many many others !
Good to see the kit was well used for quality videos like:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLvT12CPrQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]
More info:
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/cisco_helps_the_22nd_australian_scout_jamboree_reach_new_digital_heights/
Tags: aj2010, cataract, csp, kit, out, park, roll, scout
Posted in cisco, friends, g33k |
Have you noticed a lag in the speed at which your iPhone 3G or 3Gs loads SMS text messages or web browser pages?
Remember that your iPhone is basically a small computer, it runs an operating system just like Windows XP or Mac OS X. And just like those systems, there are background tasks running that may slow down the performance of your iPhone. So in order to speed up your iPhone, you should properly quit the applications that you are not using.
Important note (common misconception):
When you press the ‘Home’ button on the front of the iPod Touch, you are not quitting the application. You are simply closing it, but the application is still open and running in the background.
Suppose you open a game that you downloaded or an application on your iPhone that constantly updates via the internet. But you don’t use that application often. Then it is smart to quit those applications so it is not hogging the bandwidth (speed) of your iPhone in the background.
So, in order to properly quit these applications on iPhone 3G or 3Gs, perform the following steps:
1. Open the application that you wish to quit by pressing its button on the home screen.
2. Once the app opens, hold the power button (on the top of the iPhone) until the ‘Slide to Power Off’ with a red button shows up.
3. Then let go of the power button and press and hold the ‘Home’ button on the front-bottom of the iPhone.
4. When the interface returns to the home screen, you have successfully quit the application.
Perform steps 1-4 on any applications that you don’t use often. This will speed up the performance of your iPhone.
Bonus: Clear the cache of your Safari browser regularly by doing the following:
Home Screen > Settings > Safari > Clear Cache
This will help speed up the performance of Safari when surfing the web.
Source: http://geekwhat.com/2009/09/14/how-to-speed-up-iphone-3g-or-3gs/
Tags: 2g, 3g, 3gs, iphone, painful, sluggish, speed, up
Posted in g33k |
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FnACj25xM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]
Awesome Spoof !
Tags: a, boat, i'm, mac, on, or, pc, spoof
Posted in g33k, humour |
LOL - "Parrot" Style ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY&w=560&h=340]
Tags: head, love, man, mans, parrot, rare
Posted in humour |
I like to control room! ANSTO Main reactor control eat your heart out !
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&w=560&h=340]
For more info visit:
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
Tags: Hamburg, largest, Miniatur, model, train, world, Wunderland
Posted in g33k, tech |
- Create a Sparebundle to copy to your NFS/SMB/AFP volume
hdiutil create -size $SIZEg -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "Backup of $MACHINENAME" $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle
- Use ifconfig and sub in your $MACHINENAME_$MAC_ADRESS into the sparsebundle filename - Remove the ':' chars
e.g. 0018b31184dd
Use hostname to get your machines hostname - Don't use fqdn
Size can be adjusted at a later date if required - g = gigabytes
- Copy the budle to the nfs volume
cp -rp $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle /Path/to/nfs
- Run the defaults command to turn on timemachine for unsupported volumes support (As normal user - don't sudo)
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
- Now go to your System Prefrences and choose time machine
Choose your NFS/SMB/AFP volume as the timemachine disc
Tags: afp, apple, mac, machine, nfs, os, smb, time, x
Posted in g33k, tech |