The best looking VLC remote control application for Android. This allows you to control a computer running VLC with it’s http interface enabled. Available on the Market, by Peter Baldwin.

The google music app allows you to store 20,000 songs on the google servers and stream them anytime, as much as you want for free.Available on the Market, by Google.

Although the Android app Plex is not free, the server component is, and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Plex allows you to host your own ‘Netflix’ type service from your own media files on your network.

PocketCloud by Wyse Technology, gives you access to Windows RDP Servers, VNC Servers and VMWare View servers from your tablet. Great for admins. Non-Pro is free but limits amount of saved connections.

The Droid MPD Client HD allows you to control your MPD (music player daemon) over the network. I just wish the author would fix the huge white annoying background for your songs list to something that resembles the VLC app above. When that happens, I will gladly purchase the pro version.

I have previously gotten RIFT working on my Linux system flawlessly using WINE.

He gave me an ISO file, (probably from ill-gotten sources), and I proceeded to install from that.

Using winetricks I installed what all the other sites told me to install:

d3dx9_42
vcrun2008
xact

Then I ran the SkyrimLauncher.exe using WINE. Clicking low settings to start works, and then I click play… Nothing happens. Throws a minor error but nothing big. Ok…

So then I run TESV.exe directly, game loads in a virtual desktop as I had it setup, acting as its full screen (and annoyingly keeping my mouse inside the window). I click new game, and it sits at a black screen with gray fog floating from the bottom with the Skyrim symbol in the center of the screen. Hmm.

Well after poking around with some debug, for a few hours, I realized that the game is actually running from the Z: drive per this wine prefixes setting, and that I needed to tell it “Hey your actually running from the C: drive.”.

I looked quickly but could not find out how to force programs to run from C: in a wine config, so I created a simple command file “skyrim.cmd” file like the batch files of olde’ and inside I put the lines:

C:
CD \Program Files\Skyrim
TESV.exe

I saved the file inside my ~/.wine_skyrim/drive_c folder, and then to run the game I ran:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_skyrim wine cmd.exe /c ~/.wine_skyrim/drive_c/skyrim.cmd

Which actually ran my script, running wine at a Windows Command line, and then changed to the ‘fake’ C: drive, changed directories and ran the program.

The game runs, and then I click play. Boom, I am reading the story and it’s all working. I need to start the tweaking stage with the wine registry Direct3D entries but if anyone else has the black screen with fog try doing what I did.

It’s with regret that we are contacting you today to inform you that the pre-order you placed for the ASUS Transformer Prime Tablet will not be fulfilled on the date initially estimated. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Newegg will receive limited inventory for this tablet.

Within the next 2 business weeks, we will have confirmation of inventory and whether or not we will be able to fulfill your pre-order. Pre-orders will be fulfilled on a first come first serve basis beginning with the earliest pre-order placed. If sufficient inventory is received, your pre-order will convert into an actual sales order and begin the normal order process. In the unlikely event we cannot obtain sufficient inventory, you will receive a Back Order Notification email and your pre-order will be voided.

We understand this may cause some inconvenience. If you are no longer interested in this product, you may void your pre-order online through your account. If you are willing to wait, there is no further action necessary on your part. In that case, once inventory is received we will transfer your pre-order into a sales order, charge your chosen form of payment, and ship your product once inventory is received.

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any further questions regarding this issue, please do not hesitate to contact Newegg Customer Support at (800) 390-1119 or through the internet using our Live Chat option, or Customer Support Email.

Sincerely,

Newegg.com

I placed my pre-order on November 28, 2011. Lets see if we actually get these. It’s nice of them to finally send an email to those who pre-ordered this item, after many people have been emailing them asking for any information on shipments and being kept in the dark.

January 3, 2012 Update:
I have cancelled my pre-order with Newegg and ordered from Office Depot. Three day delivery, in stock. Will be here Thursday, January 5th.

During setup it mentioned a GPS unit, and wanting to learn more about this tried to find out how I could use this as a wireless GPS unit to some mapping software.

The device will install some NMEA ports if you plug it into a Windows machine and let it install some drivers, but I was not able to find out if you could use it wirelessly using this method.

Instead I ran a nmap scan against it and found TCP port 5502 open on the device. Then connect using telnet to that port, found raw NMEA data being streamed real time. After this it was easy, just have a virtual COM port to IP software connect to the device on port 5502.

After the serial port was created, I tried some basic NMEA tools and they seem to work. There are many free and commerical Serial to IP software packages. Combine that with some mapping software that will read from a standard NMEA port and your good to go.

The top most portion of this page: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10825 will help you setup the Google Voice portion on the Google side. Once you see the screen shots on that page, you can then use this configuration, or read up if you have their software to continue.

Just my working configuration files for using a google voice number on your asterisk server.

gtalk.conf

[general]
context=googlein
bindaddr=0.0.0.0
externip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
;stunaddr=mystunserver.com
allowguest=yes

[guest]
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
connection=asterisk
context=googlein

jabber.conf

[general]
debug=no
autoprune=no
autoregister=yes
;collection_nodes=yes
;pubsub_autocreate=yes
;auth_policy=accept
;———————————————-
[trunkname]
type=client
serverhost=talk.google.com
;pubsub_node=pubsub.astjab.org
username=username@gmail.com/Talk
secret=secretpassword
priority=1
port=5222
usetls=yes
usesasl=yes
;buddy=mogorman@astjab.org
;distribute_events=yes
status=Available
statusmessage=”I am an Asterisk Server”
timeout=100
keepalive=yes

Add following block to extensions_custom.conf

[googlein]
exten => _[0-9a-z].,1,Noop(Incoming Google Voice call for ${EXTEN})
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,Set(CALLERID(name)=${CUT(CALLERID(name),@,1)})
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,GotoIf($["${CALLERID(name):0:2}" != "+1"]?notrim)
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,Set(CALLERID(name)=${CALLERID(name):2})
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n(notrim),Set(CALLERID(number)=${CALLERID(name)})
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,Wait(1)
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,Answer
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,Wait(1)
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,SendDTMF(1)
exten => _[0-9a-z].,n,Goto(from-trunk,gv-incoming-${CUT(EXTEN,@,1)},1)
exten => h,1,Macro(hangupcall,)

[gvoice-trunkname]
exten => _X.,1,Dial(Gtalk/username/+${EXTEN}@voice.google.com)
exten => _X.,n,Noop(GVoice Call to ${EXTEN} failed)
exten => h,1,Macro(hangupcall,)

Custom Trunk Configuration:
Trunk Name: GVoice-trunkname
Outbound Callerid: “Name”
Custom Dial String: local/$OUTNUM$@gvoice-trunkname

Outbound Route Configuration:
Use the GVoice trunk.

Incoming Routes DID will be:
gv-incoming-username (without @gmail.com)

Just a few sites to help out anyone doing the same.

http://cptl.org/wp/index.php/2010/03/30/tuning-solid-state-drives-in-linux/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD#Tips_for_Maximizing_SSD_Performance

Along with a new interface, included are:

Kernel
Linux(x86_64)-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5

Elastix
elastix-2.2.0-14
elastix-firstboot-2.2.0-5
elastix-pbx-2.2.0-14
elastix-email_admin-2.2.0-9
elastix-reports-2.2.0-6
elastix-asterisk-sounds-1.2.3-1
elastix-system-2.2.0-14
elastix-my_extension-2.2.0-5
elastix-a2billing-1.8.1-16
elastix-addons-2.2.0-4
elastix-extras-2.0.4-4
elastix-agenda-2.2.0-5
elastix-vtigercrm-5.1.0-8
elastix-im-2.0.4-2
elastix-security-2.2.0-7
elastix-fax-2.2.0-4

RounCubeMail
RoundCubeMail-0.3.1-10

Mail
postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6
cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_6.4

IM
openfire-3.5.1-3

FreePBX
freePBX-2.8.1-7

Asterisk
asterisk-1.8.7.0-0
asterisk-perl-0.10-2
asterisk-addons-1.8.7.0-0

FAX
hylafax-4.3.10-2rhel5
iaxmodem-1.2.0-1.1

DRIVERS
dahdi-2.4.1.2-5
rhino-0.99.4-2.rc1
wanpipe-util-3.5.23-1

About thirty minutes to an hour playing, random crash. Wine gives no informative information, even running winedbg on the rift.exe process.

I recently found a post on the winehq forums, for RIFT that experienced the same problem, and last night testing found that adding another option to the Direct3D registry tree did indeed fix the problem.

Adding a new string value “StrictDrawOrdering” without quotes and set it to “enabled” again without quotes.

This did slow down my game some, so, I went on to play again with settings and found that I get a very noticeable increase not only in graphics quality and how high I can set them without graphic related slow downs, but also how fast the system was able to load the textures, players, spells around me by using the latest (beta at the time of this writing) nvidia drivers from the ArchLinux AUR.

The links to packages that I used are:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nv/nvidia-beta/nvidia-beta.tar.gz
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nv/nvidia-utils-beta/nvidia-utils-beta.tar.gz
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/lib32-nvidia-utils-beta/lib32-nvidia-utils-beta.tar.gz

You can get the SIP 4.x firmware here, or browse the other firmwares as well. You do not need a username and password to download them.

This site can help as well, to get you updated to a SIP firmware from UNIStim firmware and how to configure your TFTP settings.

I needed some more configuration settings in my TFTP DeviceConfig file so this is what I ended up using.

DNS_DOMAIN archaicbinary.home
SIP_DOMAIN1 archaicbinary.home
SERVER_IP1_1 192.168.XXX.XXX
SERVER_PORT1_1 5060
SERVER_RETRIES1 3
DEF_USER1 6001
ENABLE_SERVICE_PACKAGE YES
ENABLE_3WAY_CALL YES
TRANSFER_TYPE STANDARD
REDIRECT_TYPE RFC3261
FORCE_BANNER YES
BANNER Zharvek
UPDATE_USERS NO
ENABLE_UPDATE YES
ENABLE_PRACK YES
RTP_MIN_PORT 50000
RTP_MAX_PORT 50100
SIP_PING YES
AUTOLOGIN_ENABLE YES
DEF_LANG English
VMAIL *98
VMAIL_DELAY 300
EXP_MODULE_ENABLE YES
ENABLE_BT YES
DST_ENABLED YES
TIMEZONE_OFFSET -18000
# (GMT-10:00) Hawaii -36000
# (GMT-09:00) Alaska -32400
# (GMT-08:00) Pacific time (US and Canada) -28800
# (GMT-07:00) Mountain time (US and Canada) -25200
# (GMT-06:00) Central time (US and Canada) -21600
# (GMT-05:00) Eastern time (US and Canada) -18000
# (GMT-04:00) Atlantic time (US and Canada) -14400
# (GMT-03:00) Brasilia, Buenos Aires -10800
# (GMT+00:00) Greenwich, Dublin, London 0
# (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris 3600
# (GMT+02:00) Athens, Istanbul 7200
# (GMT+03:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg 10800
# (GMT+05:30) Bombay, Calcutta, Madras 18000
# (GMT+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong 28800
# (GMT+09:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Seoul 32400
# (GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney 36000
# (GMT+12:00) Auckland, Wellington 43200
SNTP_ENABLE YES
SNTP_SERVER pool.ntp.org
AUTO_UPDATE YES
AUTO_UPDATE_TIME 3600
# 48600 = 1:30pm
# 3600 = 1:00am
# 28800 = 8:00am 29700
# 54900 = 3:15pm
AUTO_UPDATE_RANGE 1
MAX_INBOX_ENTRIES 50
MAX_OUTBOX_ENTRIES 50
MAX_REJECTREASONS 5
MAX_CALLSUBJECT 5
IM_NOTIFY NO
IM_MODE DISABLED
DEF_DISPLAY_IM NO
MAX_IM_ENTRIES 20
MAX_ADDR_BOOK_ENTRIES 100
ADDR_BOOK_MODE BOTH
RECOVERY_LEVEL 0
ADMIN_PASSWORD 123456789
DISABLE_PRIVACY_UI YES
LOGOUT_WITHOUT_PASSWORD NO
NAT_SIGNALING NONE
NAT_MEDIA NONE
HOLD_TYPE RFC2543