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PCBank PB2700 2560×1440 with Ubuntu 12.4 9 May 2012 | 07:32 am
Suh-weet cheap high resolution monitor, but requires a decent video card. The cheap korean version I bought requires the videocard to do the heavy lifting with respect to driving the screen, thus the ...
Freemind viewer in Confluence 4.2 19 Apr 2012 | 09:09 am
(me: Oh hullo blog, where you been? blog: Sneaking!) Finally Confluence upgraded to a version less than 4 years old, but it broke my embedded freemind viewer. Freemind is a free as in speech and beer ...
whiptail on ubuntu 15 Sep 2010 | 08:44 am
whiptail is a subset of dialog’s functionality on ubuntu, notably, it’s already installed. I used it to wrap some tests which are executed automatically by non-technical people. The major trick for ge...
LibZFS on FreeBSD 11 Jan 2010 | 10:17 am
Hudson, on Solaris, can use ZFS to do things like fast workspace deletion and - much more interestingly - source code control management checkout replication for matrix jobs. Considering we have a job...
On days of the week 7 Jan 2010 | 12:15 pm
A Greek co-worker was telling me how the names of the week in Greek corresponded to the numerical order of the day in the week, rather than obscure references to Norse gods. Sunday is onesday, Monday ...
Linux and the M2NPV-VM 18 Nov 2009 | 02:37 pm
Quick note to record my annoyance. The M2NPV-VM, with the latest firmware (1401), used with a linux kernel more recent than 2.6.18 and KVM_GUEST configured in the kernel will not work with USB. Some d...
Ethernet woes on OS X 6 Sep 2009 | 02:37 pm
Seriously - do an OS update and your ethernet stops working…! Claims the cable isn’t plugged in. (I should point out that this is a Leopard, a point update, and not a Snow Leopard upgrade) But it’s t...
hudsonTracker on OSX 10.5.7 21 Aug 2009 | 09:54 am
When faced with a Java app that won’t start like this: 20/08/09 4:24:27 PM [0x0-0x165b65a].hudsonTracker[97838] [JavaAppLauncher Warning] Java application launched from PPC or bad stub. Relaunching i...
Xcode is a dirty dirty 11 Jun 2009 | 07:26 am
Xcode likes to spray whitespaces around. (Please open source xcode) search for ^\s+(\n) and then \1 for the replace field
Xcode diff selection with Clipboard 30 May 2009 | 07:30 am
Yet another User Script to restore functionality lost from the IDE (at least it’s possible - pbpaste and pbcopy are pretty cool). This kind of thing is useful when you’ve moved code between files and ...
