Ubuntu has builds of mainline kernels:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds

The real problem, though, is "what's a symbolic link??? I just want my pictures."

Try Code Complete. It's still just reading (as opposed to implementing, which is invaluable), but I get the impression reading is possible during your shift but probably not actual coding. Code Complete will improve your skills as a developer immensely.

I imagine a big part of the speed increase comes from JIT - something that the current Dalvik implementation on Android doesn't do. There is, however, an experimental JIT branch. It would be nice to see how Myriad's stacks up to it. This test claims about a 3x increase in speed by enabling the existing JIT features.

Disney released and has been continuously updating a great 3D game engine: www.panda3d.org

Great, a new way to remove my competition from the app store. Post good reviews on their apps!

There are actually applications on the iphone app store right now that are written in java. With xmlvm a similar strategy to this one compiles java to native code (with an objective-c middle man in the xmlvm case). http://www.xmlvm.org/iphone/

in such a situation. Where's the lie?

The source engine may have the outward appearance of being easy to modify but reality is quite different.

The documentation is cryptic, outdated, incomplete, and often just plain missing.

Thanks for the response! I'll certainly give it another shot; I haven't tried the new version yet.

Also, I apologize if my above post seemed like a flame against your app - overall it's great and you are providing a great service to Android/Google Voice users. Keep up the good work.

To register a phone number with your Google Voice account you have to answer an automated call and enter a touchtone passkey that is provided on the website. If you don't have access to the phone you can't add it to the ring list.

I have a google voice account (transferred over from grandcentral) and in general I didn't find the GV android app to be all that usable. The extra overhead ended up making me miss a lot of calls that I wouldn't otherwise have. Another problem was that dialing out either involved using the GV application which dials your Google Voice number and places the call via their system or making calls from your real number. The former put a 10 - 15 second overhead on making a call and the latter tends to confuse people because they are receiving a call from a different number than the one they (were told to) call.

I ended up giving my real number to anyone that mattered. I still use my Google Voice number for anything online or calls/text messages that I potentially want to screen. It's a great service but it didn't work for me as an every day number.

I haven't done the legwork but it appears that an attack vector exists via the App Store. Applications allow downloading of data files (podcasts, for example).

Simply get your application published and give people some incentive to download it (for free). Once your intended target or target quota has installed download a "media file" that's actually the malicious binary. Then it's just a matter of smashing your own application's stack to run the code.

And I played a lot with him when I was younger. Strat-O-Matic is a blast. It's really evolved with the advent of the internet - they do have a computer version of the game but even more importantly leagues have formed using messageboards and the like. These leagues weren't possible in 1961 and they have some genuinely interesting outcomes for a baseball stat addict.