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Comment on Update / Solution for broken Android calendar syncing by Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:01:58 +0000

Thank you! Couldn’t figure out why my calendar wasn’t showing everything and this helped me track down the problem: a repeating event entered in Outlook. Deleted it and everything is showing up again.

Come on, Google, fix this!

Comment on Setting primary monitor (with dual monitors) on Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) by z33

z33 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:30:31 +0000

Thanks this set is working

Comment on Update / Solution for broken Android calendar syncing by Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:13:34 +0000

Thanks for the info. It will be fixed in the next OTA.

Comment on mounting large (> 2TB) hfsplus (mac) partitions on linux / ubuntu by tom

tom — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:17:17 +0000

oh, i had to reboot seems to work now.

Comment on mounting large (> 2TB) hfsplus (mac) partitions on linux / ubuntu by tom

tom — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:05:02 +0000

did not really work for me (kernel 3.0.0)

Comment on Android calendar syncing is broken for me! by Update / Solution for broken Android calendar syncing « Vijay Pandurangan's blog

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:45:25 +0000

[...] my last post, I described how Android's calendar syncing was broken for me. I noticed that my calendar on my phone was out of date, and when I manually refreshed, I'd get a [...]

Comment on Python quiz by Gregory Nicholas

Gregory Nicholas — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:11 +0000

i know that you’re going to get screwed using :

def __init__(self, a={}):

that a arg is a going to get globally cached

Comment on Partychat — migrating from Google App Engine to EC2 by Sam Kaufman

Sam Kaufman — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:09:14 +0000

That tl;dr was tl, dr.

Comment on Partychat — migrating from Google App Engine to EC2 by Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:39:20 +0000

FYI Tom, Amazon hasn’t increased their prices yet. In fact, they’ve dropped their prices on multiple occasions.
As vijayp said, it is now much easier to migrate to another cloud provider. This lack of vendor lock in will keep Amazon’s prices in check.

Comment on Partychat — migrating from Google App Engine to EC2 by Dake

Dake — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:46:20 +0000

Do you have any additional arguments to back up this statement “I strongly recommend against running anything more complicated than a toy app on App Engine”

From reading your article.

1 You want to run a free service based on the XMPP API of google.
2 Unfortunately for you the costs are now too high.
3 So you need to implement your own XMPP API.
4 Google doesn’t support sockets.
5 So you end up with EC2.

GAE is not 20x expensive than EC2, it misses the functionality to implement your own XMPP.