Comments for Stuff for the Easily Distracted

Comment on Welcome to The Gadget Zone by martin

martin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:38:39 +0000

8 Years later and the only thing on this list that I would still include in my top ten is my beloved Tissot T Touch watch. Apart from being sent away once for a week to get a new battery and a service it has never let me down and still looks as good as the day I first got it.

Comment on MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) by martin

martin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:18:47 +0000

Thanks for the pointers to get involved. I have requested membership to the Google group.

Comment on MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) by Andy Piper (@andypiper)

Andy Piper (@andypiper) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:16:20 +0000

Glad the interview caught your interest there are plenty of different implementations around now – and lots of folks using MQTT in their home projects with e.g. Arduino, mbed, Nanode and Netduino! Do join the mailing list and check out mqtt.org/get-involved

Comment on Zeroconf / mDNS / Bonjour by martin

martin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:55:01 +0000

New install of CentOS 5.5 and still no easy way of getting nss-mdns installed. Googled around again a discovered that it is available from the EPEL repository (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ).

To add EPEL to your list of Yum repositories,
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Then install nss-mdns like so,
$ sudo yum install nss-mdns

That’s it!

Comment on Using the eBay SOAP API from Ruby-on-Rails by James

James — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:02:32 +0000

Hey, I’ve been trying to get this to work for hours without success. Do you have a sample project you can post?

Thanks in advance!

Comment on Philips SBA290 Compact Travel Speakers by Gina

Gina — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:46:16 +0000

I have Philip SBA290. I'm choosed to not use rechargeable batteries are not from Philips. This is to keep my speaker are more durable. I think, this is the safest to do

Comment on Zeroconf / mDNS / Bonjour by martin

martin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:51:38 +0000

On Ubuntu Server 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), it worked straight out of the box. No need to install or configure any extra packages. I like Ubuntu.

Comment on Philips SBA290 Compact Travel Speakers by Discount Pro

Discount Pro — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:21:25 +0000

I guess “do not use rechargable batteries” in manual means only one thing you have to buy one time use batteries from Philips, and only from them, others can destroy it :):)

Nonsense, I’m the owner of SBA290 and I’m using standard rechargable batteries from VARTA. No problems yet

Comment on Zeroconf / mDNS / Bonjour by Martin

Martin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:48:02 +0000

Install on Redhat EL5 and CentOS 5.3:

Either download the source and compile with :
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Google for “nss-mdns rpm redhat”. I found nss-mdns-0.10-2.el5.i386.rpm downloadable from atrpms.net.
As root:
# yum install nss-mdns*.rpm

Lastly, edit the nsswitch.conf file to tell the OS to use Bonjour in its DNS lookups.
# vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
replace hosts line with:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

Comment on Zeroconf / mDNS / Bonjour by Martin (Admin)

Martin (Admin) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:44:55 +0000

Install on Ubuntu 704 Server:
$sudo apt-get install libnss-mdns

This will install, configure and start the avahi-daemon process. It will also edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to include mdns in name resolution.