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Dr. Robert Ballard: Special Guest at Java Strategy Keynote Sunday

- by Tori Wieldt

Dr. Robert Ballard, famed explorer who found the Titanic at its final resting place, will be at the Java Strategy Keynote on Sunday. Among the most accomplished and well known of the world's deep-sea explorers, Dr. Ballard is best known for his historic discoveries of hydrothermal vents, the sunken R.M.S. Titanic, the German battleship Bismarck, and numerous other contemporary and ancient shipwrecks around the world. During his long career he has conducted more than 120 deep-sea expeditions using the latest in exploration technology, and he is a pioneer in the early use of deep-diving submarines. You can learn more about Dr. Ballard and undersea exploration at National Geographic and TED. The first 1,000 people to arrive at the JavaOne Keynote hall on Sunday will receive a copy of Dr. Ballard's TV show "The Alien Deep" on Blu-Ray. The Alien Deep explores the sea, thousands of feet beneath the surface, far from the first crack of light, where the planet’s last and greatest secrets hide in the cold darkness of endless night. Viewers get to see underwater worlds via submersible where no one has gone before. The JavaOne Strategy Keynote is on Sunday at 4:00pm PT at Masonic Auditorium, 1111 California Street. See you there!

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NASA Finds Evidence Of Aliens

- by Gopinath

OMG! All those Aliens stuff we saw in movies is not baseless. NASA scientists discovered that we are not all alone in this universe. Many other forms of life is distributed on the planets other than Earth. Aliens are real!! This astonishing claim comes from Dr. Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA, who says that he found solid evidence of alien life in the form of fossils of bacteria in an extremely rare class of meteorite. In an exclusive interview to FoxNews, the scientist said I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth. This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist would say that this is impossible. The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth. There are some that are just very strange and don’t look like anything that I’ve been able to identify, and I’ve shown them to many other experts that have also come up stumped. Read more at FoxNew: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite cc image flickr/earlg This article titled,NASA Finds Evidence Of Aliens, was originally published at Tech Dreams. Grab our rss feed or fan us on Facebook to get updates from us.

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Desktop Fun: Abstract Icon Packs

- by Asian Angel

Do you prefer a more unique, artistic, or alternative look for your desktop setup? Then you will definitely want to have a look through our Abstract Icon Packs collection. Just set your imagination loose and enjoy the wonderful desktops that these icon packs can inspire for you. Note: To customize the icon setup on your Windows 7 & Vista systems see our article here. Using Windows XP? We have you covered here. Sneak Preview For this week’s preview desktop we created an Alien Desert Planet theme using the Abstract Symbol Icons pack shown below. Note: The original, unmodified version of this wallpaper can be found here. Here is a closer look at the icons we used for our new theme… The Icon Packs Match-stick-play Icons *.ico format only Download Abstract Symbol Icons *.ico format only Download Allomantic Metals *.ico format only Download Mutated Snowflake Icon Set *.ico format only Download Shades of Geometry *.ico format only Download Starry Objects Icons *.ico format only Download New Sin – Abstract Human Icons *.ico, .png, and .psd format Note: While most of the icons in this pack look similar at first glance, there are differences when viewed at a larger size. Download Mysterious Icons *.ico format only Download Alien Icons *.ico format only Download Beads Icons *.ico format only Download Magic Flowers Icons *.ico format only Download Circle Shapes Icons *.ico format only Download geometric doc icons *.png format only Download alumina *.png format only Download Citiscape dockicons *.png format only Download Wanting more great icon sets to look through? Be certain to visit our Desktop Fun section for more icon goodness! Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Is Your Desktop Printer More Expensive Than Printing Services? 20 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know HTG Explains: Which Linux File System Should You Choose? HTG Explains: Why Does Photo Paper Improve Print Quality? Add Falling Snow to Webpages with the Snowfall Extension for Opera [Browser Fun] Automatically Keep Up With the Latest Releases from Mozilla Labs in Firefox 4.0 A Look Back at 2010 Through Infographics Monitor the Weather with the Weather Forecast Extension for Opera Orbiting at the Edge of the Atmosphere Wallpaper Simon’s Cat Explores the Christmas Tree! [Video]

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Desktop Fun: Starscapes Wallpaper Collection Series 2

- by Asian Angel

New worlds filled with alien ruins, covered in perpetual twilight, ripe with agricultural harvests, and more are waiting for intrepid explorers like you to explore them. Journey to the far ends of the cosmos and experience new wonders on your desktop with the second in our series of Starscapes Wallpaper collections. How to Factory Reset Your Android Phone or Tablet When It Won’t Boot Our Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 is Now Available Everywhere How To Boot Your Android Phone or Tablet Into Safe Mode

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Go Ahead, Play with Your Food

<b>The Tyee:</b> "It's an unusual Friday night at Grinder, a small coffee shop in Toronto. There's an alien in someone's cup, hearts in another and someone else sees their face in their mug."

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Classic UFO Identification Chart from March 1967 [Retro Image]

- by Asian Angel

If you love classic sci-fi goodness, then you will definitely enjoy looking through the various ‘alien’ starcraft featured in this classic chart from yesteryear! View the Full-Size Version (914*1280 pixels) UFO Identification Chart – Stargods Blog [via Cheezburger.com] Java is Insecure and Awful, It’s Time to Disable It, and Here’s How What Are the Windows A: and B: Drives Used For? HTG Explains: What is DNS?

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How do display a "mucus spreading" effect in a 2D environment?

- by nathan

Here is an example of such a mucus spreading. The substance is spread around the source (in this example, the source would be the main alien building). The game is starcraft, the purple substance is called creep. How this kind of substance spreading would be achieved in a top down 2D environment? Recalculating the substance progression and regenerate the effect on the fly each frame or rather use a large collection of tiles or something else?

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How do produce a "mucus spreading" effect in a 2D environment?

- by nathan

Here is an example of such a mucus spreading. The substance is spread around the source (in this example, the source would be the main alien building). The game is starcraft, the purple substance is called creep. How this kind of substance spreading would be achieved in a top down 2D environment? Recalculating the substance progression and regenerate the effect on the fly each frame or rather use a large collection of tiles or something else?

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What are the statements in XNA?

- by Katie Hajduk

A hypothetical game called “AlienShooter” needs to be able to work on Windows and on the Xbox. In the Windows version, the keyboard will handle firing at alien spaceships, and this functionality is contained within a method called “KeyboardSupport()”. In the Xbox version of the game, the gamepad will be used for shooting, and this functionality is contained within a method called “GamepadSupport()”. Write the statement(s) that must be added so that the appropriate code is used in the each version of the game.

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A crowded Extra-Solar system

- by TATWORTH

The orbiting Kepler telescope has found another unusual alien solar system. The Kepler telescope monitors star for changes in their brightness. The light resulting curves can be seen at http://www.planethunters.org.Recently an extra-solar system with 4 stars (planets orbiting two of the stars with the other two stars orbiting as a distant binary pair) was discovered using by two "arm-chair" astronomers using the above web site. Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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Netcat (nc) traditional package for RHEL 6.x?

- by HTTP500

I'm trying to use the Percona Apache Monitoring [Cacti] Template for Memcached. They do indeed warn that you can't use the openbsd version of the package and provide a solution for Ubuntu/Debian users, i.e.: You need nc on the server. Some versions of nc accept different command-line options. You can change the options used by configuring the PHP script. If you don’t want to do this for some reason, then you can install a version of nc that conforms to the expectations coded in the script’s default configuration instead. On Debian/Ubuntu, netcat-openbsd does not work, so you need the netcat-traditional package, and you need to switch to /bin/nc.traditional... Since the RHEL 6.x version indeed comes from openbsd (confirmed by rpm -qi nc) how does one go about getting this installed on RHEL/CentOS? Anyone else running these Percona templates on RHEL/CentOS? What did you do? alien the Debian package? Update 1: FWIW, I tried to use GNU netcat by compiling it from source but it doesn't seem to have the exact options required by the Cacti template either (i.e. there is no analogy for -C or -q1 so it seems) Update 2: I alien[ed] the netcat-traditional_1.10-38_amd64.deb package to make a .tgz and it does produce a binary "nc.traditional" and that version has the -q option but no -C Cheers

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Reset rc.d so software starts at boot again

- by natli

I ran the following 2 commands on my VPS box and now it boots without starting any software at all. According to rcconf it's still supposed to start my chosen software (ssh etc.) but it doesn't. update-rc.d vz defaults update-rc.d vzeventd defaults I already tried removing them again with update-rc.d -f vz remove update-rc.d -f vzeventd remove But that didnt't change anything. /etc/rc.local also still correctly lists some scripts I want to run at start-up, but they don't seem to be called either. I expect the top 2 commands to be responsible, but here's everything I did: mkdir /var/openvz-dl cd /var/openvz-dl wget http://download.openvz.org/kernel/branches/rhel6-2.6.32/042stab062.2/vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab062.2.x86_64.rpm wget http://download.openvz.org/kernel/branches/rhel6-2.6.32/042stab062.2/vzkernel-devel-2.6.32-042stab062.2.x86_64.rpm wget http://download.openvz.org/utils/vzctl/4.0/vzctl-4.0-1.x86_64.rpm wget http://download.openvz.org/utils/vzctl/4.0/vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64.rpm wget http://download.openvz.org/utils/ploop/1.5/ploop-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm wget http://download.openvz.org/utils/ploop/1.5/ploop-lib-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm wget http://download.openvz.org/utils/vzquota/3.1/vzquota-3.1-1.x86_64.rpm apt-get install fakeroot alien fakeroot alien --to-deb --scripts --keep-version vz*.rpm ploop*.rpm dpkg -i vz*.deb ploop*.deb --force-overwrite update-rc.d vz defaults update-rc.d vzeventd defaults reboot A huge part of that failed because I was running it on an OpenVZ VPS which has a shared kernel that can't be altered, so I also had to fix the dpkg like so (it was moaning about wanting to install vzkernel with a package not being found); rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/vzkernel* dpkg-reconfigure vzkernel --force dpkg --purge --force-all vzkernel But that didn't fix the boot issue either. How do I make my software start at boot again?

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Linux C++: Linker is outputting strange errors

- by knight666

Alright, here is the output I get: arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld --entry=main -dynamic-linker=/system/bin/linker -rpath-link=/home/oem/android-ndk-r3/build/platforms/android-5/arch-arm/usr/lib -L/home/oem/android-ndk-r3/build/platforms/android-5/arch-arm/usr/lib -nostdlib -lstdc++ -lm -lGLESv1_CM -rpath=/home/oem/android-ndk-r3/build/platforms/android-5/arch-arm/usr/lib -rpath=../../YoghurtGum/lib/Android -L./lib/Android intermediate/Alien.o intermediate/Bullet.o intermediate/Game.o intermediate/Player.o ../../YoghurtGum/bin/YoghurtGum.a -o bin/Galaxians.android intermediate/Game.o: In function `Galaxians::Init()': /media/YoghurtGum/Tests/Galaxians/src/Game.cpp:45: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_cleanup' /media/YoghurtGum/Tests/Galaxians/src/Game.cpp:44: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_cleanup' intermediate/Game.o:(.ARM.extab+0x18): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' intermediate/Game.o: In function `Player::Update()': /media/YoghurtGum/Tests/Galaxians/src/Player.h:41: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_cleanup' intermediate/Game.o:(.ARM.extab.text._ZN6Player6UpdateEv[_ZN6Player6UpdateEv]+0x0): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata._ZTIN10YoghurtGum4GameE[_ZTIN10YoghurtGum4GameE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__class_type_info' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata._ZTI6Player[_ZTI6Player]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata._ZTIN10YoghurtGum6EntityE[_ZTIN10YoghurtGum6EntityE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata._ZTIN10YoghurtGum6ObjectE[_ZTIN10YoghurtGum6ObjectE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__class_type_info' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata._ZTI6Bullet[_ZTI6Bullet]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata._ZTI5Alien[_ZTI5Alien]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' intermediate/Game.o:(.rodata+0x20): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' ../../YoghurtGum/bin/YoghurtGum.a(Sprite.o):(.rodata._ZTIN10YoghurtGum16SpriteDataOpenGLE[_ZTIN10YoghurtGum16SpriteDataOpenGLE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' ../../YoghurtGum/bin/YoghurtGum.a(Sprite.o):(.rodata._ZTIN10YoghurtGum10SpriteDataE[_ZTIN10YoghurtGum10SpriteDataE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__class_type_info' make: *** [bin/Galaxians.android] Fout 1 Here's an error I managed to decipher: intermediate/Game.o: In function `Galaxians::Init()': /media/YoghurtGum/Tests/Galaxians/src/Game.cpp:45: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_cleanup' /media/YoghurtGum/Tests/Galaxians/src/Game.cpp:44: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_cleanup' This is line 43 through 45: Assets::AddSprite(new Sprite("media\\ViperMarkII.bmp"), "ship"); Assets::AddSprite(new Sprite("media\\alien.bmp"), "alien"); Assets::AddSprite(new Sprite("media\\bat_ball.bmp"), "bullet"); So, what seems funny to me is that the first new is fine (line 43), but the second one isn't. What could cause this? intermediate/Game.o: In function `Player::Update()': /media/YoghurtGum/Tests/Galaxians/src/Player.h:41: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_cleanup' Another issue with new: Engine::game->scene_current->AddObject(new Bullet(m_X + 10, m_Y)); I have no idea where to begin with the other issues. These are my makefiles, They're a giant mess because I'm just trying to get it to work. Static library: # ====================================== # # # # YoghurtGum static library # # # # ====================================== # include ../YoghurtGum.mk PROGS = bin/YoghurtGum.a SOURCES = $(wildcard src/*.cpp) #$(YG_PATH_LIB)/libGLESv1_CM.so \ #$(YG_PATH_LIB)/libEGL.so \ YG_LINK_OPTIONS = -shared YG_LIBRARIES = \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libc.a \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libc.so \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libstdc++.a \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libstdc++.so \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libm.a \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libm.so \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libui.so \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/liblog.so \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libGLESv2.so \ $(YG_PATH_LIB)/libcutils.so \ YG_OBJECTS = $(patsubst src/%.cpp, $(YG_INT)/%.o, $(SOURCES)) YG_NDK_PATH_LIB = /home/oem/android-ndk-r3/build/platforms/android-5/arch-arm/usr/lib all: $(PROGS) rebuild: clean $(PROGS) # remove all .o objects from intermediate and all .android objects from bin clean: rm -f $(YG_INT)/*.o $(YG_BIN)/*.a copy: acpy ../$(PROGS) $(PROGS): $(YG_OBJECTS) $(YG_ARCHIVER) -vq $(PROGS) $(YG_NDK_PATH_LIB)/crtbegin_static.o $(YG_NDK_PATH_LIB)/crtend_android.o $^ && \ $(YG_ARCHIVER) -vr $(PROGS) $(YG_LIBRARIES) $(YG_OBJECTS): $(YG_INT)/%.o : $(YG_SRC)/%.cpp $(YG_COMPILER) $(YG_FLAGS) -I $(GLES_INCLUDES) -c $< -o $@ Test game project: # ====================================== # # # # Galaxians # # # # ====================================== # include ../../YoghurtGum.mk PROGS = bin/Galaxians.android YG_COMPILER = arm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++ YG_LINKER = arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld YG_PATH_LIB = ./lib/Android YG_LIBRARIES = ../../YoghurtGum/bin/YoghurtGum.a YG_PROGS = bin/Galaxians.android GLES_INCLUDES = ../../YoghurtGum/src ANDROID_NDK_ROOT = /home/oem/android-ndk-r3 NDK_PLATFORM_VER = 5 YG_NDK_PATH_LIB = $(ANDROID_NDK_ROOT)/build/platforms/android-$(NDK_PLATFORM_VER)/arch-arm/usr/lib YG_LIBS = -nostdlib -lstdc++ -lm -lGLESv1_CM #YG_COMPILE_OPTIONS = -g -rdynamic -Wall -Werror -O2 -w YG_COMPILE_OPTIONS = -g -Wall -Werror -O2 -w YG_LINK_OPTIONS = --entry=main -dynamic-linker=/system/bin/linker -rpath-link=$(YG_NDK_PATH_LIB) -L$(YG_NDK_PATH_LIB) $(YG_LIBS) SOURCES = $(wildcard src/*.cpp) YG_OBJECTS = $(patsubst src/%.cpp, intermediate/%.o, $(SOURCES)) all: $(PROGS) rebuild: clean $(PROGS) clean: rm -f intermediate/*.o bin/*.android $(PROGS): $(YG_OBJECTS) $(YG_LINKER) $(YG_LINK_OPTIONS) -rpath=$(YG_NDK_PATH_LIB) -rpath=../../YoghurtGum/lib/Android -L$(YG_PATH_LIB) $^ $(YG_LIBRARIES) -o $@ $(YG_OBJECTS): intermediate/%.o : src/%.cpp $(YG_COMPILER) $(YG_COMPILE_OPTIONS) -I ../../YoghurtGum/src/GLES -I ../../YoghurtGum/src -c $< -o $@ Any help would be appreciated.

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SQL Server, how to join a table in a "rotated" format (returning columns instead of rows)?

- by Joshua Carmody

Sorry for the lame title, my descriptive skills are poor today. In a nutshell, I have a query similar to the following: SELECT P.LAST_NAME, P.FIRST_NAME, D.DEMO_GROUP FROM PERSON P JOIN PERSON_DEMOGRAPHIC PD ON PD.PERSON_ID = P.PERSON_ID JOIN DEMOGRAPHIC D ON D.DEMOGRAPHIC_ID = PD.DEMOGRAPHIC_ID This returns output like this: LAST_NAME FIRST_NAME DEMO_GROUP --------------------------------------------- Johnson Bob Male Smith Jane Female Smith Jane Teacher Beeblebrox Zaphod Male Beeblebrox Zaphod Alien Beeblebrox Zaphid Politician I would prefer the output be similar to the following: LAST_NAME FIRST_NAME Male Female Teacher Alien Politician --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johnson Bob 1 0 0 0 0 Smith Jane 0 1 1 0 0 Beeblebrox Zaphod 1 0 0 1 1 The number of rows in the DEMOGRAPHIC table varies, so I can't say with certainty how many columns I need. The query needs to be flexible. Yes, it would be trivial to do this in code. But this query is one piece of a complicated set of stored procedures, views, and reporting services, many of which are outside my sphere of influence. I need to produce this output inside the database to avoid breaking the system. Any ideas? This is MS SQL Server 2005, by the way. Thanks.

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Using LINQ to isolate a particular obect from a list of objects

- by dezkev

Hello All, I am trying my hand at making an invaders clone. there are 30 aliens arranged in a 5x 6 matrix on screen. I need to give the bottom most alien the ability to fire a shot. I am using LINQ to group the aliens into 5 groups based on Location.X and then sort the groups descending.I then need to choose one of the groups ( that gives me 5 groups) and select the First alien in the group and use it;s coordinate to fire a shot. My code below ,well ,works , but aliens in ANY row are merrily firing shots- not just the bottom most. Pl look at my code below and tell me whats wrong. (r = an instance of the Random class, all aliens are in a list called invaders). { var query = (from inv in invaders group inv by inv.Location.X into invgroup orderby invgroup.Key descending select invgroup).ToList(); var invfirst = query[r.Next(query.Count)].First(); invaderShots.Add(new Shot( new Point(invfirst.Area.X + invfirst.Area.Width / 2, invfirst.Area.Y + invfirst.Area.Height + 5), displayrect, Shot.Direction.Down)); }

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How can I set up Retrospect on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit?

- by David

Problem Retrospect is a backup system that my organization uses, but I can not find support for my Ubuntu 10.04 64bit desktop. What I have tried (but did not work) download the Redhat version and attempt to convert to deb wget http://download.dantz.com/archives/Linux_Client-7_6_100.rpm sudo alien Linux_Client-7_6_100.rpm The Restrospect user forum has this thread, which provides an i386 .deb file for installing Retrospect Question Is there a way to install this on my system?

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Antenna Aligner part 2: Finding the right direction

- by Chris George

Last time I managed to get "my first app(tm)" built, published and running on my iPhone. This was really cool, a piece of my code running on my very own device. Ok, so I'm easily pleased! The next challenge was actually trying to determine what it was I wanted this app to do, and how to do it. Reverting back to good old paper and pen, I started sketching out designs for the app. I knew I wanted it to get a list of transmitters, then clicking on a transmitter would display a compass type view, with an arrow pointing the right way. I figured there would not be much point in continuing until I know I could do the graphical part of the project, i.e. the rotating compass, so armed with that reasoning (plus the fact I just wanted to get on and code!), I once again dived into visual studio. Using my friend (google) I found some example code for getting the compass data from the phone using the PhoneGap framework. // onSuccess: Get the current heading // function onSuccess(heading) { alert('Heading: ' + heading); } navigator.compass.getCurrentHeading(onSuccess, onError); Using the ripple mobile emulator this showed that it was successfully getting the compass heading. But it didn't work when uploaded to my phone. It turns out that the examples I had been looking at were for PhoneGap 1.0, and Nomad uses PhoneGap 1.4.1. In 1.4.1, getCurrentHeading provides a compass object to onSuccess, not just a numeric value, so the code now looks like // onSuccess: Get the current magnetic heading // function onSuccess(heading) { alert('Heading: ' + heading.magneticHeading); }; navigator.compass.getCurrentHeading(onSuccess, onError); So the lesson learnt from this... read the documentation for the version you are actually using! This does, however, lead to compatibility problems with ripple as it only supports 1.0 which is a real pain. I hope that the ripple system is updated sometime soon.

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Antenna Aligner part 2: Finding the right direction

- by Chris George

Last time I managed to get "my first app(tm)" built, published and running on my iPhone. This was really cool, a piece of my code running on my very own device. Ok, so I'm easily pleased! The next challenge was actually trying to determine what it was I wanted this app to do, and how to do it. Reverting back to good old paper and pen, I started sketching out designs for the app. I knew I wanted it to get a list of transmitters, then clicking on a transmitter would display a compass type view, with an arrow pointing the right way. I figured there would not be much point in continuing until I know I could do the graphical part of the project, i.e. the rotating compass, so armed with that reasoning (plus the fact I just wanted to get on and code!), I once again dived into visual studio. Using my friend (google) I found some example code for getting the compass data from the phone using the PhoneGap framework. // onSuccess: Get the current heading // function onSuccess(heading) { alert('Heading: ' + heading); } navigator.compass.getCurrentHeading(onSuccess, onError); Using the ripple mobile emulator this showed that it was successfully getting the compass heading. But it didn't work when uploaded to my phone. It turns out that the examples I had been looking at were for PhoneGap 1.0, and Nomad uses PhoneGap 1.4.1. In 1.4.1, getCurrentHeading provides a compass object to onSuccess, not just a numeric value, so the code now looks like // onSuccess: Get the current magnetic heading // function onSuccess(heading) { alert('Heading: ' + heading.magneticHeading); }; navigator.compass.getCurrentHeading(onSuccess, onError); So the lesson learnt from this... read the documentation for the version you are actually using! This does, however, lead to compatibility problems with ripple as it only supports 1.0 which is a real pain. I hope that the ripple system is updated sometime soon.

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The 20 Best How-To Geek Linux Articles of 2010

- by The Geek

We might be known for our Windows articles, but in 2010 we sure posted a lot of really in-depth articles covering Linux. Here’s the 20 best articles that we covered this year, covering everything from how to tweak your setup to how to use Linux to fix Windows. Want even more? You should make sure to check out the top 20 How-To Geek Explains topics of 2010, the 50 Windows Registry hacks that make Windows better, or the best 50 Windows articles for 2010 Latest Features How-To Geek ETC The 20 Best How-To Geek Explainer Topics for 2010 How to Disable Caps Lock Key in Windows 7 or Vista How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Is Your Desktop Printer More Expensive Than Printing Services? 20 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know Enjoy Christmas Beyond the Holiday with Christmas Eve Crisis Parrotfish Extends the Number of Services Accessible in Twitter Previews Winter Sunset by a Mountain Stream Wallpaper Add Sleek Style to Your Desktop with the Aston Martin Theme for Windows 7 Awesome WebGL Demo – Flight of the Navigator from Mozilla Sunrise on the Alien Desert Planet Wallpaper

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Friday Fun: Splash Back

- by Asian Angel

The best part of the week has finally arrived, so why not take a few minutes to have some quick fun? In this week’s game you get to play with alien goo as you work to clear the game board and reach as high a level as possible Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Upgrade Windows 7 Easily (And Understand Whether You Should) The How-To Geek Guide to Audio Editing: Basic Noise Removal Install a Wii Game Loader for Easy Backups and Fast Load Times The Best of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in 2011 The Worst of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in 2011 HTG Projects: How to Create Your Own Custom Papercraft Toy Calvin and Hobbes Mix It Up in this Fight Club Parody [Video] Choose from 124 Awesome HTML5 Games to Play at Mozilla Labs Game On Gallery Google Translate for Android Updates to Include Conversation Mode and More Move Your Photoshop Scratch Disk for Improved Performance Winter Storm Clouds on the Horizon Wallpaper Existential Angry Birds [Video]

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Why is there still so much offer for Perl programmers?

- by user491444

A quick search on monster.com on different scripting languages resulted on Perl having much more job opportunities than Python and Ruby (in Europe, I didn't check for the rest of the world), and since I'm just a newbie programmer I was wondering why is this? I've read everywhere that Python and Ruby are much better languages, and much more organized. Having coded in python and php myself, Perl's code seems so alien to me. Anyways, sorry for my poor English, it's my second language, and this is not a critique on the Perl language, I was just wondering whether it's a good idea to learn it at this point or not.

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The 50 Best How-To Geek Windows Articles of 2010

- by The Geek

Even though we cover plenty of other topics, Windows has always been a primary focus around here, and we’ve got one of the largest collections of Windows-related how-to articles anywhere. Here’s the fifty best Windows articles that we wrote in 2010. Want even more? You should make sure to check out our top 20 How-To Geek Explains topics of 2010, or the 50 Windows Registry hacks that make Windows better Latest Features How-To Geek ETC The 20 Best How-To Geek Explainer Topics for 2010 How to Disable Caps Lock Key in Windows 7 or Vista How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Is Your Desktop Printer More Expensive Than Printing Services? 20 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know Awesome WebGL Demo – Flight of the Navigator from Mozilla Sunrise on the Alien Desert Planet Wallpaper Add Falling Snow to Webpages with the Snowfall Extension for Opera [Browser Fun] Automatically Keep Up With the Latest Releases from Mozilla Labs in Firefox 4.0 A Look Back at 2010 Through Infographics Monitor the Weather with the Weather Forecast Extension for Opera

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HTG Explains: The Linux Directory Structure Explained

- by Chris Hoffman

If you’re coming from Windows, the Linux file system structure can seem particularly alien. The C:\ drive and drive letters are gone, replaced by a / and cryptic-sounding directories, most of which have three letter names. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the structure of file systems on Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. However, Linux file systems also contain some directories that aren’t yet defined by the standard. How to Make Your Laptop Choose a Wired Connection Instead of Wireless HTG Explains: What Is Two-Factor Authentication and Should I Be Using It? HTG Explains: What Is Windows RT and What Does It Mean To Me?

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How to override the new limited keyboard repeat rate limit?

- by Olivier Pons

I may be an alien around here, but here's my problem: the speed limit on old Ubuntu releases (= before 11) was very very fast. It was really great for me. Now, on Ubuntu 11, they may have thought: "who will ever want that speed? Nobody! So let's put the maximum speed to a lower limit". It's so stupid that they tried to narrow down the speed to some other famous OS. If Linux is more powerful, why remove some of its power? I don't get that. So is there any way to override that speed limit and get my keyboard as fast as it is on other previous versions?

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PHP developer wanting to learn python

- by dclowd9901

I'm pretty familiar at this point with PHP (Javascript, too), up to the point of OOP in PHP, and am looking to branch out my knowledge. I'm looking at Python next, but a lot of it is a bit alien to me as a PHP developer. I'm less concerned about learning the language itself. I'm positive there's plenty of good resources, documentation and libraries to help me get the code down. I'm less sure about the technical aspects of how to set up a dev environment, unit testing and other more mundane details that are very important, aid in rapid development, but aren't as widely covered. Are there any good resources out there for this?

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