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So I have been writing this little play thing, kinda like a os in the cloud…..or not. you be the judge. Go check it out at Feekes.net/os. Be nice, its on a really slow slow connection.

Im building a new toy. An iPhone Simulator for Android. This is not just an image put on your screen, it is an html5 simulation of the iPhone home screen. Right now it does nothing, but hey, its cool. Im building some of the apps tonight, like the calculator (dumb but easy), and the phone dialer. We will see how it goes.

UPDATE:

I have the spring in the springboard home, fun to play with, and the preliminaries for the dialer. I know that the animations for launching apps is not there, but hang tight, it will be. Video Preview iPhoneSim

Update 2:

I have the calculator app finished, and have dialer functions working. Just need to find a way to dial directly instead of invoking the android dialer.

Download it here.

Well, judging from the image you already know what this is going to say. This is what I want to change this year.

Eat Healthier: This is something I need to do. I have high blood pressure and I’m over weight, hrmmm, no brainier. I will go ahead and throw in exercise in there for good measure. If I am to go for it, might as well go big.

Write More: I recently saw an article on AnAndTech wanting more columnist. I thought to myself, I would love to do that. In order to do something like that I need to write more. Doesn’t have  to be about tech, but just more. The only way I will get better is by doing, and im sure anyone reading this gets tired of the pasted content, and the hrmmm’s and ughhh’s. Write more, and get better.

Do the Podcast: A couple of years ago now I started a podcast called NerdNews Weekly, the weekly only lasted 3 weeks and it died. I want to revive it in video form. I have all the equipment and no more excuses, time to just do it. Might not start off weekly, but I want to bring it back.

Get Organized: This just effects everything about me, I am an unorganized person. I will start off with my worklife, them move into my personal which will bleed into my OpenSource/Web life. Time to get organized and start giving back to the community more.

There you have it, what to expect from me this year. Hope I’m up for it.

Chris…

Made mine at http://www.skinit.com/ get ya one if ya like.

Oh, click the image for the full thing.

Well, today I shut down my server to install a new NIC, and upon powering up, the power supply any motherboard died. Just for those wondering it was a Dual Core Opteron 1.8ghz in a Asus M2N-LR socket AM2 motherboard with a 360 Watt Silverthorn power supply. So needless to say, until I order a new board my XMPP, local DNS, Print Server, File Server, Media Center, and my PHP Development will remain at a halt. Don’t we just love servers.

Over the past two days I have received over 2000 emails, all from one sender. You might ask yourself, why don’t you just block this sender? I would, but I am required to be a member of this mailing list. The mailing list is the Fedora FreeMedia Mailing List. It sends out every ticket request, and update to everyone on the list. I can see where this was useful long ago, but this has got to stop. We at the Fedora Project need to at the bare minimum have two mailing list for this program, one for discussions, and one for tickets. Make the discussions required, and the tickets not. I’m sure most everyone on that mailing list is like me and have come complacent and just flat ignore the emails that come from this address, they don’t go to my blackberry anymore, that was a disaster. Give me one of your blackberry email addresses and let me send 2000 messages to it. It becomes very, very, VERY unresponsive and useless. Also, syncing on IMAP the deletion of 2000 messages takes a really long time.

The point, we don’t all need to see every action that takes place in the trac system sent out in an email. Lets just be responsible and check the trac system daily, I and most already do.

Fedora Document Management Login

Well, its Thursday and my wife has to do homework for her masters program. I think I will continue working on my little pet project, Fedora Document Management. PHP and MySQL based, this web based application will feature document revisions, document templates, document sharing with permissions, document locking, and some other things not thought of yet. Of course there will be a way to authenticate with LDAP before you ask. If you are a PHP programmer and would like to help, just use the contact form at the top, or heck, leave a comment, or even email me at cfikes@fedoraprohect.org.

This is just fantastic!!! The FreeMedia Program with the Fedora Project has had over 300 media request just over the course of today. WAY TO GO GUYS! I will start sending out my media tomorrow. I am so glad to see the interest in this new release booming. This is truly the best Fedora release yet.

Request your FreeMedia here.

Just check out the Fedora Project here.