"Computers" archive
Wednesday 20 November
- Qt 4.8.5 timers and high CPU usage on Linux (15:52) - I am using the QBasicTimer class in my application for a number of QObject timers. It's supposed to be the most efficient timer class Qt offers in terms of overhead (as per the documentation), but I noticed fairly high CPU...
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Saturday 9 June
- First Taste of Pi (16:28) - So after tracking the online buzz about the Raspberry Pi for a long time, I finally got my hands on one. It was a bit finicky to get set up. To keep costs and power consumption of the device down,...
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Thursday 3 July
- Aquamacs 1.4 and style modes (16:52) - My editor of choice for software development is Aquamacs. It's a Mac OS X version of Emacs that retains all the flexibility and power of Emacs but is a native Mac application that supports standard OS X shortcuts, look and...
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Tuesday 4 March
- FTP via curl through a SOCKS proxy on OS X (21:52) - I was trying to figure out why curl wasn't able to FTP (in passive mode) through my local SOCKS proxy on OS X. I had configured the .curlrc correctly, and by all rights it should have worked. As it turns...
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Thursday 21 February
- MFC applications and stringstream under Visual Studio 2003 (15:21) - I am trying to write a simple class which is to be shared between MFC-based and non-MFC (i.e. Win32/CRT) based applications using Visual Studio 2003. I am trying to make the code as portable and generic as possible. In general...
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Monday 16 October
- Interesting iTunes Buffering Problem (17:23) - I use iTunes to share my music library across various computers around my house. I also often access my library remotely using a combination of ssh (tunneling daap) and Network Beacon (to advertise the daap service). I have my iTunes...
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Tuesday 12 September
- Ubuntu Fonts Problem (Broken By Update?) (05:31) - So I booted up my Ubuntu Linux box (running Dapper Drake) for the first time in a few weeks, and was informed that several updates were available. I've had no problems with any updates up to this point, so I...
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Wednesday 23 August
- My MacBook Review (04:55) - The Apple MacBook has been out for many months now and there are dozens of reviews available, but I wanted to throw mine out there, too. In order to try and add some value, I'm going assume you have read...
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Tuesday 22 August
- VNC Viewer For Mac OS X (05:09) - With my PowerPC Mac (running OS X 10.3.9), I have been very happy using VNCViewer, which can be downloaded here: http://homepage.mac.com/kedoin/VNC/VNCViewer/ However, the performance on OS X Tiger (10.4.x) is poor, and it's even worse if you have an Intel...
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Saturday 12 August
- iTunes Not Writing ID3 Tags (03:48) - I'm seeing an interesting problem with iTunes on my Intel Mac Mini (OS X 10.4.7, iTunes 6.0.x). When I rip a CD, it doesn't seem to write the track information out to ID3 tags within the ripped MP3 files. It...
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Monday 5 December
- Strange Interactions (00:16) - After a lot of banging my head against a wall, I solved an interesting problem I had been seeing when accessing music on my computer remotely. Google wasn't much help in solving it, so I figured I'd mention it on...
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Saturday 30 July
- Web Browsing For Power Users (Part 2) (04:13) - In the last installment I wrote about Firefox and the AdBlock plugin. Those two combined are enough for most people. But there are those of us who demand more. We want to be able to customize our browsing experience to...
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Monday 20 June
- Web Browsing For Power Users (Part 1) (16:54) - Almost anyone who uses the web regularly can tell you about sites that have become so overloaded with ads, pop-ups, etc. that the actual content gets buried. Often those sites are providing useful information, but it's difficult to wade through...
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Thursday 7 April
- Cookie Crumbs On Your Computer (02:36) - Apparently Macromedia Flash Player (which you probably have installed) keeps a separate set of "cookies" from your browser. Sneaky sites can put stuff into that cookie jar, and cleaning out your browser (manually or via anti-spyware tools) won't always remove...
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Tuesday 22 March
- A Mac Mini Review (12:17) - I originally wrote this a couple weeks ago, hoping to enter it in the Mac Mini review contest on Engadget, but I got sick that week and didn't get to finish it. The computer industry moves fast, but I think...
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- Welcome to My Little Underground.... (03:59) - Here we go, the first test post on my blog. I'm looking forward to spouting off about my favorite subjects....
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