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[haXe] Failed to load library : std.ndll

February 18th, 2010

If, like me, you just started playing around with haXe and you might get the following error when including an external Flash resource:

Uncaught exception – load.c(232) : Failed to load library : std.ndll (std.ndll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

The solution is simple, you just need to install neko and neko-dev:

sudo apt-get install neko neko-dev

Now simply run the setup:

sudo haxelib setup

Happy haXe-ing!

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Scary Privacy Quotes

February 10th, 2010

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

- Google CEO Eric Schmidt

“…doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of thing that a lot of companies would do. But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner’s mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it.

- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment… It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.

But at any rate they could plug into your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”

- George Orwell, 1984

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Google Buzz: A Privacy Disaster

February 10th, 2010

As someone who is no friend to Facebook, I was quite interested to hear that Google will be stepping into the social networking world with their newest product: Google Buzz. The introductory video looked good enough showing a slick, simple interface, easy message, photo and video posting and an good time to be had by all. Perhaps, I thought, this means Facebook’s hegemony over the social networking sphere was coming to a close. Anything is better than Facebook’s blatant disregard for privacy right? Wrong. Read more…

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Lower-case all URLs with Apache mod_rewrite

February 5th, 2010

Search engines, like Google, will index URLs on your site in a case-sensitive fashion, so www.yoursite.com/iamtest shows up as a different page than www.yoursite.com/iAmTest. This has negative consequences for your search rankings as these different URLs will be interpreted as duplicate content. Read more…

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