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I never played with Google Web Fonts before today so I asked Google how to use them in a Blogger blog and found a number of procedures; unfortunately, all of them updated the style of all posts on the blog. If you read the basic web font instructions provided by …

This quote from Why mobile web apps are slow is not at all deep or mysterious, but its understatedness brings about lighthearted remembrance of past foibles with dynamic languages:

If your C program executes in 10ms, then a 50ms JavaScript program would be “near-C” speed. If your C program executes …

So I installed and rebooted and had no network. WAT? I was utterly clueless initially but quickly found some great clues here.

Here were the steps to having usable network access:

• Configure VMWare to use Bridged networking.

  # dladm show-link -o link (displayed e1000g0)
  # ipadm create-if e1000g0
  # ipadm create-addr -T dhcp …

Glibc backtrace() returns nothing without building the caller with -funwind-tables (or one of several related options); httpd, libapr, etc. all need similar for any real use of mod_backtrace. This is of course all related to the calling convention on ARM. (But casual use of gdb on plain builds of httpd …