It turns out that Google has some restrictions on domain names that they will allow to be used with Google Apps. This list was taken from their signup restrictions page.

• Domain availability in our system
• Inappropriate domain names (offensive, false branding, etc.)
• Restricted locations
• Number of domains that you have already registered (this is meant to prevent abuse of our system)
• Involvement in IT decisions for your organization

It seems stupidfoot.com falls into one of those categories, I’m guessing the one that I’ve bolded. I took a guess that Google doesn’t like the word stupid. A quick search for google apps restrictions domain name stupid shows that my guess was correct. I’m not the first person to have a problem with Google’s seemingly arbitrary domain name filtering.  This guy has run into the same problem I did but unlike me he had a friend at Google to get in touch with to help him out.

I’m hoping someone from Google stumbles across this and will get in touch with me and help me work this out. I plan on mashing buttons on the Google Apps site with hopes of finding a contact form that will allow me to get in touch with Google and have an exception made for stupidfoot.com.

dzil cover | grep ‘coverage.html’ | awk {‘print $5′}  | xargs open

and this on Ubuntu.

dzil cover | grep ‘coverage.html’ | awk {‘print $5′}  | xargs -I{} firefox {} &

Every time I tried to upgrade the firmware it would fail. After some searching I found that the firmware updates ship with differential updates. If any of the core files are modified the update will fail in order to prevent mucking something up.

An easy way to figure out what file is causing the upgrade to fail is:

;debugOn
;dumpMessages

You can then search through the file created on the Kindle for the file with a checksum failure.

In my case /etc/sysconfig/iptables was modified. Someone posted a stock copy of the file, once I removed the the single line that was different in mine the update applied without issue.

I found App-perlbrew the other day and have been using it and so far it seems pretty compilable to rvm.

Installing a local copy of Perl is as easy as

$ perlbrew install perl-5.12.2

You can then list your installed versions of perl with

$ perlbrew list
perl-5.12.2
* /usr/bin/perl
$

One thing that bugged me was it didn’t tell me the version of Perl /usr/bin/perl was. The nice thing about open source is the ability to modify it to do what you want, which is exactly what I did.

First using -vmargs settings:
eclipse -clean -showlocation -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx900m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Duser.name="Your full name"

The other one is just by  changing the associated templates in Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Templates -> @author , hardcoding the author’s name.

I wrote some Perl to convert the the lots from the play money format into the real money format.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Cwd;
use File::Find;
 
my $some_dir = "Z:\\HandHistory";
my $startDir = &Cwd::cwd();
find(\&processFile, $some_dir);
exit;
 
sub processFile {
    shift;
    return if not /\.txt$/;
    my $inFileName = $_;
    my $infile = "$startDir/$File::Find::name";
    my $outfile = "$startDir/outHands/$inFileName.$$.converted.txt";
    open (inFILE, "<$infile") or die "can't open in file!: #$infile# ($!)";
    open (outFILE, ">$outfile") or die "can't open out file!:#$outfile# ($!)";
    my @players;
    while(<inFILE>) {
        chomp;
        @players = () if (s/^(PokerStars Game .*\()(\d+)\/(\d*)(\).*)$/\1\$\2.00\/\$\3.00\4/);
        push(@players, $1) if (/^Seat [\d+]: (.*) \(\d+ in chips\)/);
        foreach my $key (@players) {
            my $value = $key;
            $value =~ s/\s+/_/;
            ($value = $1) =~ s/($1)/_\1/ if ($key =~ /^(\d+)$/);
            s/$key/$value/;
        }
        s/([\( ])(\d+)([\) \.])/\1\$\2.00\3/g;
        s/\(Play Money\) //g;
 
        s/^\s+//;
        s/\s+$//;
        print outFILE "$_\n";
    }
    close(inFILE);
    close(outFILE);
}

‘Error from Debugger: Unknown packet reply: “timeout” to environment packet.’

I don’t even know where to start with that error. I’m only getting it on the iPhone 1st gen that was upgraded to beta 5. The same project builds and runs just fine on my 2.2.1 3G.

I just tried another project and it builds and runs just fine on both my beta 5 1st gen and on my 2.2.1 3G.

Anyone else getting this? How did you fix it?

I’m not a fan of CVS so its out. Never used Perforce and Subversion seems to be the easiest to get started with.

I ran svnadmin create SVNrep and the set it up in Xcode and found it gave me Error: 180001. That’s no good. After some googling I found a post by James Murty which describes the problem. It seems Xcode 3.1 isn’t compatible with versions after 1.4. I’m I’m running 1.6.1. svnadmin has a flag –pre-1.5-compatible that will create repositories that are compatible with versions less than 1.5.

After removing the previous SVNrep and running svnadmin –pre-1.5-compatible create SVNrep I now have a SVN repository that Xcode 3.1 can use.