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I was wondering how people managed to install different kind of Android. I was afraid and said to my self "Is it safe?", "Will it brake my phone?". HTC Wildfire S' small memory gives me no other choice but to hack my phone. After searching about "how to root", "how to install custom ROM", etc, I finally can share this experience with you. Since almost all HTC Android phones have their bootloader locked, this tutorial may also work for them.

This tutorial works on Windows XP and Windows 7. It failed on Ubuntu Linux since fastboot for Linux is buggy, at least on my 64-bit Ubuntu.

I'm not satisfied with existing praytimes applications in Android. Nothing matches with Indonesian standard. Actually there is one which matches with Indonesian standard. But sadly, it highly depends on internet connection since it's based on remote HTML javascript. Why doesn't the creator use the java version then?

Suppose we have two different networks (e.g. 192.168.1.1/24 and 192.168.2.0/24) . PC A and printer A is on the same network. Printer A is a network printer (printer that connects directly into network) which PC B wants to use. Meanwhile, PC B is on different network.

To allow communications between PC A and PC B, both PCs require a routing configuration (route add blah blah blah ...) and they are able to be configured like that. Unfortunately, Printer A is not. Therefore, PC B can not print documents into Printer A. Mmm... there's must be a way.

Tired waiting Eclipse plugins to install their artifacts from internet (remote update site) every time you install fresh Eclipse? I was too. I wish all plugins had zipped version so that I don't have to connect to internet. I wish, there were a cache proxy server to cache plugins' artifacts. Sadly, they're just wishes :(

Finally, after googling around about hours I found that, it's better to use Eclipse feature named "dropins" to install any plugins offline. On this tutorial, I'll use Ubuntu. For Windows users, please adapt :D

I've just installed Kubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 on a BenQ notebook. Everything seems going smooth except... the Fn keys for adjusting the brightness. They're just not working! I wonder why BenQ official or community sites never tell about fixing this. I guess, less users of this BenQ product use Ubuntu :D

Git is a really fast distributed version control system. Instead of using Subversion, I'd rather use Git since it is fast, doesn't have scattered versioning information like .svn, and I can commit without being online with central repository.

If we're working with other coders, we need to share our codes. I think the easiest and URL-friendly way is through Apache WebDAV.

I've been searching a way to write testing code for OSGi environment. There are Spring DM and Pax Exam that I found recently. Since Pax Exam supports JUnit 4, I prefer this one. Pax Exam works by create unique OSGi environment for each @Test method and make the test class as one of the OSGi bundle.

As a Java coder (and also some other languages) who envies Ruby concise features, I think Scala language is worth to try. I even eager to try this new language after Twitter popularize its use.

Scala bytecodes + Scala libraries = Java bytecodes

It was long ago I committed for version 6.x-5.0. Actually it's too long. Alhamdulillah since I have my own time now and I've given power and passion by Allah, I'm glad to announce that a new release has come out.

Have you ever been tired to seek changes in your .htaccess Drupal site with the latest version of Drupal? You should have, if you have modified the file for some reason (e.g. changing the memory limit for image processing) and if you don't know how to use patch and diff command lines.