Juhonkoti - Juho Mäkinen’s blog

Hosting virtual machines inside an OpenSolaris box is very easy with VirtualBox. Here’s a quick tutorial how to install an ubuntu into a virtual machine which will take about 30 minutes of your time.

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I had some bad performance problems with my new NAS box running ZFS which resulted terrible video and audio lagging problems in windows when I tried to stream video from zfs share via CIFS to a media player running in windows. Even playing mp3 music files from CIFS share in Winamp resulted with very bad [...]

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I just noticed that I could create iSCSI volumes onto my ZFS pool and share them easily over network to other machines. And I mean easily!

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I recently had a long night debugging this: My application using PHP, Sajax and MySQL truncated messages from the first non-ascii character to the end of the message. For example: if I typed “yö tulee” (finnish sentence means that “night is coming”) only “y” was inserted into the database.
The problem was with Sajax library. Sajax [...]

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We had some problems with importing video from a P2 card to Final Cut Pro. It seems that the P2 contents can not be inside a HFS+ volume. At least that’s the only reasonable common thing which we found as we hammered out heads against the wall for the better part of the day. We [...]

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I’ve successfully created a Python script which can extract username and login password from a mac running OS X tiger (going to test with leopard asap) via firewire using a linux laptop, based on great paper Hit By A Bus: Physical Access Attacks with Firewire by Adam Boileau. Once the attackers Linux laptop is connected to target machine via firewire, the password can be automaticly extracted from memory via firewire in about 10 seconds.

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Daniel (the author of Daily Blogging Tips) inspired me to write about my current desktop setup and in particular the multihead setup I’ve got. Currently I got three TFT displays (see the related image) and I just love it. I do a lot of image processing, programming, video editing and audio multitrack mastering and the three displays help a lot to increase my productivity.

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Problems with my new iPod: 1. Apple didn’t supply my gsm number to TNT, so that the courier could not contact me for delivery. 2) iTunes does not find my iPod (in my Windows XP machine with all updates)…

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I just ordered iPod Nano from Apple Store. I entered my shipping address and gsm number to the forms and payed it by visa. No problems here. But for some reason, the gsm number does not transform correctly from the Apple Stores internal systems to TNT (the courier which apple uses, as confirmed by the [...]

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MacBook is my favourite laptop I’ve ever owned. I use it daily in my school and I carry it from lecture to lecture and I like it’s sleep functionality - I can just close the cover, carry it to other place, open the cover up and it’s ready to roll in a matter of seconds [...]

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I recently installed WPG2 and Gallery2 to my block to manage the photos and images which are related to my blog entries and generally to store the photos taken by me. I found WPG2 quite good, but it lacked a feature I missed: To display random images from an album which is related to a [...]

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