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Installing Silverlight 3 on Hackintosh

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Okay I have always wanted to own a Mac Pro and that wish only grew more after I bought my Mac Book and the Mini for HTPC duties. I like the OS X interface and recently bought Snow Leopard Family pack to upgrade my laptop and mini and was wondering what to do with my Dell Inspiron 530s (the only windows box in the house, ohh btw I do like Windows 7 and is really the best Windows OS Yet ) and decided to dual boot it with OS X.

The hackintosh installation was a bit round about as I had install Leopard first and then use that install Snow Leopard and then update the boot loader to Chameleon rc3 and fix the boot order from the windows with easybcd 2.0 beta. That story is for latter.

Now coming back to the title of this post after I got the setup up and running, I was trying out all my usual apps and when I tried Instant Watch from Netflix, i trt wanted to install Silverlight 3.0. I download the dmg ran the install it said I was running a Power PC and the install failed. I “googled it” and found that the installer is checking for the PC type and is parsing it wrong. So here is the fix.

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FANN python binding on ubuntu x86_64

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Ok, Long time no see.. Was busy with too much work. Got a little bit of free time in the last couple of weeks and was mucking around with some Artifical Neural Network packages out there and ran into an issue with FANN 2.1.0 Beta.

I was able to compile and install the core libfann without any issues, however when I tried compiling the python binding pyfann I ran into some issues, first ubuntu did not have any of the python dev packages installed by default so installed them with

sudo apt-get install python-dev

and then installed the swig package

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Improved Downloads

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I was finally able to find some time to work on this again and have completely reworked the downloads.. All downloads are still primarily delivered using bittorrent. The .torrent files are served locally and but are now tracked via public trackers and not my own. I have moved that tracker server to serve direct http … Read more

Using a very short URL in MediaWiki hosted on Dreamhost

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I was setting up a small wiki site to track my music collection and track details and was trying to set up short urls like “http://wiki.myhost.org/Main_Page” instead of “http://wiki.myhost.org/index.php?title=Main_Page”

From all the reading up I did on various forums and wiki’s I was preparing for a long night ahead of me to get this working. However it turned out be a anti-climax with the URL’s working after only a couple of trials. Here’s how I did it.

Installed mediawiki using the oneClick install on wiki.myhost.org and then changed

this ->

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Flash Element TD | Novel Concepts – HOWTO

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Over past few months I was constantly either busy or had hectic schedules with almost no time to spare, thanks to my Work, MBA Exams, Field Project and a few development attempts.

However this Friday I fell sick with a bout of fever and cold over the weekend and suddenly had loads of time kill and found myself without the tools to do so. I was stuck at my room with a reliable but low speed internet. I started with the best way to waste time as any – Slashdot, Digg and by afternoon managed to run out of options, but just then I stumbled upon this game “Flash Element TD” by David Scott.
Boy its one wicked and addictive game and now on Sunday evening I have not only managed to blow my weekend way but also scored some decent scores for myself.

And a small howto on how to get yourself addicted to this game and score point fast.

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