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When SSHing to your BUG, you may notice a second or two delay before you get a prompt, even if you're just connecting over the USB ethernet connection from your computer.This typically happens because the SSH daemon (dropbear) on the BUG is trying to do a DNS lookup on your IP address. If it can't find a DNS entry, or can't get to a DNS server, it can take a few seconds before it will...

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If you're doing your Eclipse / Dragonfly BUG app work on a Mac, you will likely be using the USB ethernet connection to your BUG. Whenever the BUG boots, the g_ether module, which provides the USB ethernet, will by default generate a random MAC. OS X tracks network connections by MAC, and so every time you boot your BUG you will need to go through the process of creating a new enX connection for it,...

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Recently most (if not all) BUG components moved from CVS to Subversion. Many recipes got updated to that fact and set to fetch source from new repository. But the problem is that all of them have PV = "1.0" so each change to code require manual rebuilding instead of letting BitBake to notice new version and do new build.What I did in r7123-7125 was changing this. All recipes which fetch from http://svn.buglabs.net/ have now PV...

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Ideas were created in the Test Kitchen during the most recent Open House.  Below you'll see an application idea for a game, a retaliation technique, and a networked closet.   Check back to see further progression!    

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If there's a package you'd like on your BUG, but it isn't provided by default, you can often get the recipe for it from OpenEmbedded and use it to build the package for you. This is pretty easy if you already have the build environment setup for the BUG (see how to on the wiki).First, download OpenEmbedded using the instructions in the Obtaining OpenEmbedded Using GIT section of their Getting Started page. Once you have...

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If you google for "snails in the kitchen", you'll probably find some recipes for various dishes I'm not likely to eat.  That and tips on how to keep slugs out of your cupboards.At Bug Labs, we don't necessarily think that snails in the kitchen are such a bad thing... depending on the context, of course.Let me clarify:  We recently had a little fun and killed a few minutes building a line tracing robotic snail in...

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As you can see, our new BUG Community is up and running. In addition to our main BUGnet site, the community portal is a place for our users and developers to share ideas and experiment. You're most welcome to write about any coding project you've been itching to talk about (once we open the door to every BUGnet user). After receiving a set of key requirements from Peter and Ken, we did a fair bit...

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This site, like all of our rails sites, has a few different deployment targets, depending on what we're trying to do.  For us, the target might be the integration server (where developers give new code a test run after verifying it works on our local development machines), the testing server, or the production server.  We use Capistrano to do our deployments and employ a couple of strategies that allow us to easily deploy to any...

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I have been holding off on doing any OE/Poky work until I was able to use OTE to do it.  Well, I was finally able to use the recipe editor and the console integration to upgrade our OSGi bundles from our old CVS repository to SVN.  And I'm playing around with swfdec from the OE dev branch.  While there are many rough edges it is working well!  I was able to check in recipes, search...

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The Bug Labs staff has been having fun in the test kitchen.  We've learned to solder, fix some BUG boards, and alter the plastics.  Now it's your turn!  Bring your project to the Test Kitchen and set up shop for the day.  The Test Kitchen has open hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, from noon-6.  Email alicia(at)buglabs.net to set up a time!  We welcome any projects and all kinds of collaboration.  Hope to see...

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