Posted by andy gaskell on Jul 12th, 2008
Ok, so like 99% of my blog entries are about things not working quite the way I think they should and here’s another example. When linking your Passport account to your MSDN Subscription you’re asked to provide your Benefit Access Number. The number they’re looking for is your Technical ID available on Microsoft Parter Program site. Under Requirements & Assets click Assign Contact Roles.
This method didn’t work for me on the day I received my MSDN shipment - I had to wait a couple days for it to work.
Posted by andy gaskell on Jul 9th, 2008
I’ve been trying to install pymedia on a clean install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron and I was wasn’t able to get it to build using the official docs. Fortunately I found a couple of great blog posts. I ended up having to make a couple of changes:
To install the dependencies I used:
sudo apt-get install python-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev liblame-dev libfaad-dev libasound2-dev python-pygame
I had to go to /usr/bin and run this as Michael suggests:
ln -s g++-3.4 g++
Posted by andy gaskell on Jul 9th, 2008
SmartFTP started charging for their Windows FTP client so I decided to look for a suitable truly free replacement (not a lite version or one with nag screens) and FileZilla seems like the best option out there.
Filezilla isn’t quite as pretty as SmartFTP but FileZilla does have a local and remote browser similiar to SmartFTP - super easy to use. I’ve used it to upload and modify files on my host as well as FTP files over to a WinCE device that I’m developing on - so far it’s worked great.
