I was just booting up my Mac to take some nice pretty screenshots of my cluster install process, and I realised that NoMachine’s client for OS X does not even properly support Intel CPU’s -.-”
Anyways, unlike Adobe porting Creative Suite to Linux, at least NoMachine are actually working on it.
Ever since I have started using KDE with Linux/FreeBSD as my desktop replacing Windows, there has been just one thing that has really annoyed me about both of these desktops, and that is using Kodak cameras.
Yes – I know, such a simple device, but you will be amazed at how many headaches it used to cause. Photo transfers would litrally take 20 minutes with the “KDE way” using the kioslave camera:/.
Finally there is a better way!
With the help of this site, I have found out that there is an even faster way to get my files, and it literally has saved me 30-60 minutes copying all the photos of my camera.
Instead of using the provided kioslave with KDE (and the new Kubuntu 9.04, which by the way is great!) I, for the first time in the new version of Kubuntu needed to use the console.
gphoto2 --auto-detect
This command got me a list of all the camera's that I had plugged into my system.
Model Port ---------------------------------------------------------- USB PTP Class Camera usb:
After I knew what the port was, I could literally mount the camera as part of my filesystem using this command:
gphotofs --port=usb: ~/camera
and bam! just copy the files from /home/tim/camera into the Documents folder and 300MB of photo’s were transfered in less then three minutes.
Fantastic! This is so much faster then the KDE way, I can not prove to you how happy I am that this speed bottleneck is now solved.
Every time I go to my Inbox every morning; I seem to have three or four questions waiting for me regarding MyBanco. Starting from the most asked question, and going down to questions I seem to get less often, I thought I might answer a few of those questions so that I will never have to type out the same repetitive answer again.
How can i download MyBanco 2009.1?
MyBanco 2009.1 is not yet released, I know that the site is a bit out of date, and that the release is way over due, all I can say is hold your horses and go download the latest release, which you will see on the very same download page that talks about MyBanco 2009.1, http://mybanco.org/download.html
Is this for real? Is MyBanco really meant in production environment of real banks?
Well, yes. This is the aim of the game. The application is not yet fully feature rich, so don’t expect Citi Bank to start using it just yet, but with enough programmers hands, it will become an application that can be used in production environments, not just for small community banks but also larger national banks.
I can’t install MyBanko. I do not use XAMPP. I use real web server. I can’t found where to write the MySQL server address on page 3 ?!?
Firstly, do your research. XAMPP is just a nice and easy way to get a webserver with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on Windows without little work at all. It is a real server, just as much as a LAMP server is. I don’t know what you mean about MySQL, all you need to do is create a database with acceptable permissions (say with phpMyAdmin — which XAMPP also comes with…) and enter those login details into the installation script for MyBanco. The install application for MyBanco will come up when you go to the domain for MyBanco for the first time.
Is it possible to install with the following url: http://localhost/mybanco? Because, with the original installation method I have to sacrifice other websites.
No, it is not possible. The internet banking module is built to run off it’s own domain/subdomain. The easiest way to do it is to just create a virtual hosts configuration in Apache, where you have something like http://mybanco.localhost 
The reason this is here is to make MyBanco comply with PCI DSS (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/), which are rules created by the major credit card issuers on the subject of how machines must handle credit card information. https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss_download.html
PCI DSS Requirement 2.2.1 specifies ‘Implement only one primary function per server.’, which basically means that the internet banking interface must be on a separate server then say the backend server or the MySQL server. Of course, for testing it is OK for this to not be the case, but for the reason that there are rules to worry about, making it run the way you want in a testing environment has not really been a big concern.
PCI DSS Requirement 6.3.2 requires that test/production environments must be seperate, and it is recommended to have the same config. between both environments, yet another reason not to implement what you are saying.
MyBanco throws some errors even at installation. Step 4, i.e. stop after sql writing and gave no clue for me. And, also some undefined variables message after that.
If you encounter errors, please copy and paste them so I can fix them.
I manage a banking program at a community college. We are setting up a model branch for students to practice retail banking operations in a simulated environment and would like to use your retail banking solution. Does an extensive amount of programming need to be done before we can use the software. We only need the basics -nothing fancy. How exactly do I download it and get it to run? What hardware/operating system/database platform etc. do we need to run it? We will have about 5 – 25 work stations running it.
At the moment, MyBanco does not perform any lending functions, this is it’s only downfall. To get it running is very easy, if you look around the MyBanco website at this link http://www.mybanco.org/about-us.html you will see that there is a link to this blog post: http://timg.ws/2009/01/26/installing-mybanco-with-xampp-on-windows/ It describes all that needs to be done to install MyBanco on a Windows system.
You can download MyBanco from here: http://timg.ws/downloads/mybanco/ No fancy hardware is required, a basic Core2Duo machine, which costs less then $2,000 will be able to handle not 25 work stations, but 250!
MyBanco is very fast. No programming will need to be done, unless you want to offer loan support.
My development environment is CentOS 5. Running a library that is two and a half years old really sucks on a new Linux box, especially because I had to install three compat libraries.
The software is called “webpay”, and the actual library itself is distributed as a binary library; which would be alright apart from the fact that this is a library that is meant to financial transactions, and I want to be able to trust that this library is the actual library that I am meant to use. When you go to download the file from St. George, there is no way to validate the file, no signed GPG files – not even an sha1sum.
What was even worse, is that the webpay client refused to work in the Virtuozzo container.
rt_sigaction(SIGPROF, {0x81c0ce0, [PROF], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0xf09dc8}, {SIG_DFL}, 
= 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [PROF], NULL, = 0
open("test.blue", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0777, st_size=4891, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7eb3000
read(3, "", 4096) = 0
brk(0x9ae9000) = 0x9ae9000
I would like it if it “just worked”, or even better – that libwebpayclient.so came with source, so we could actually compile the library ourselves, and debug the problem further. Even though the library is from a bank, I would have no problem sending back improved code to the bank, especially if it improved the way that my software worked.
Damn banks.
<Ashley> Kayla came up with something so funny… you know when you take photos from up above you, they’re ‘myspace’ photos? well, she reckons that when you take photos with the camera looking up at you, they’re ‘Facebook’ photos xD
So, I thought I might like to tell you all that I am working the life of the working man now. I recently (on Thursday) started work at my first real full-time job at Digital Pacific.
It seems like a pretty good place, and even though it means moving from my current place in residence, which is Newcastle to Sydney, around two and a half hours away; working there really is worth it. All the people there are great, and my job is lots of fun.
So, I have not really been working on many projects for quiet some time, so today is actually the first day that I started working on some of my new upcomming releases.
Just can’t wait to find a place to live in Sydney
I have always wanted to be able to write my own software to run a stock exchange, but I have never been able to get a full grasp on how the whole stock exchange system worked. I always had been left with many questions.
The market determines arbitrarily the price that shares are sold to the buyer for. Say you’ve got a range of prices that different people are willing to buy shares for. The first guy selling shares will go to the guy paying the highest price. The one coming after will have to sell to someone who’s only willing to pay less.
Say you’ve got a range of prices that different people are willing to buy shares for. The first guy selling shares will go to the guy paying the highest price. The one coming after will have to sell to someone who’s only willing to pay less. Brokers only automate this process.
If you are buying shares, you’ll want to buy cheap first.
Say for example, you have two people. Person one has 1,000 shares for sale for $1.50 /each and person two has 1,000 shares for sale @ $1 /each. If I wanted to buy 1,500 shares, the price I would pay would be:
((500*1.5)+(1000*1))/1500
=1.16666666666666666667
=1.1667
So my buying price per share would not be $1 or $1.50, rather it would be $1.17 each.
How would I go about recording buy prices, so I can make funky graphs like Yahoo Finance / Google Finance does? Basically, I would record all transactions that occur, like the purchage above that I did for $1.17 a share, and then have the computer work out the average price of all transactions done in every say, 1 hour. Once I have all these averages, I just plot those numbers on the graph.
How would I go about automating buying shares if no one is selling anything? Well, there is margin buying, which is buying shares with money that you don’t have. Also, there is short selling, where you are selling for money shares that you don’t have, but there is not really an economic concept for buying shares that don’t exist. There is no real to implement on a small scale anything like margin buying or short selling.
special thanks goto Ari Rahikkala
On the 12th of September, I turned 18. This would be one reason for me slacking off in terms of number of posts. Thanks to everyone who sent me a happy birthday email
Will post a little about what I did for my birthday as time goes on, I am somewhat disapointed that I didn’t take pictures.
I just hate it when terms get thrown around incorrectly. One of the two words that really annoy me when they are said incorrectly is piracy. Piracy is when you are on the sea, and steal things from other ships.
Spread the word: Download the SVG file. Filesharing.svg
What ShareSource looked like back in the day, when it had “only” 200 projects. This is back on the old origional ShareSource software that I wrote for me and webs. The new software is alot faster.
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