05 September 2010 ~ 12 Comments

Facebook for iPhone – "Places" hangs on "Locating you…"

TweetI decided to see how “Places” stacked up with Foursquare. I reactivated my Facebook account and reinstalled the iPhone app. Went to “Places” and clicked “Check In,” and… nothing. It mentioned something about turning on Location Services. I know I already have that enabled because other apps are using it without problem. Turns out you [...]

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02 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Amazon EC2 – ext3 mkfs takes 30+ minutes?

TweetI’ve been playing around with Amazon EC2 for a new project I’m working on and so far I’m really impressed. One thing I’ve noticed, however, is that it takes forever to create an ext3 filesystem on a new volume. For example, the below command took over 30 minutes to create the filesystem on a 300 [...]

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23 April 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Windows XP guests hang on shutdown in VMware Workstation on Linux

TweetI had this problem with FC11, where I couldn’t properly shut down or suspend the Windows XP VM I run (mostly for Outlook). When I’d shutdown inside the guest, it would mostly do what you’d expect, but then the screen would go blue, then black, and then the only way I could get the thing [...]

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