Dropbox is a great service - you get cloud storage that will sync to any device of yours. However, the Linux client is quite a memory hog: when I tried to sync a folder containing a few megabytes of images to a low-resource VPS, I noticed that the OOM kept killing ...
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A simple Dropbox client in Python
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Python-iptables update
p 25 január 2013It's been a while since I had the time to work on python-iptables - and, unfortunately, time flies. Recent Linux distributions now come with iptables 1.4.x, which uses a somewhat modified API, introducing new callback functions in extensions (
x6_*()). Python-iptables was written for the old API, so anyone ... -
Embedding OSGi into an Android application part 2
cs 14 június 2012So we finished off with a few problems preventing OSGi from operating properly when embedded into an Android application. I crafted a few patches to fix these with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
A normal app has no write access to
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Embedding OSGi into an Android application part 1
p 23 március 2012OSGi is a modular service platform written in Java. Individual components (called bundles) may provide services, and can be deployed or removed without restarting the whole OSGi framework. Knopflerfish is a complete open source implementation of the OSGi R4 v4.2 specifications maintained by Makewave.
The great thing about Android ...
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Nginx and git via HTTP
v 15 január 2012Nginx is a high-performance HTTP server and proxy that has been gaining a lot of traction recently. It's easy to set up, can handle a large number of clients with minimal resources, modular and supports SSL/TLS. Dynamic web content can be served via FastCGI to Nginx.
Git uses ...