‘man make’

19Mar10

If you Google ‘man make’ the fifth result is How to Make a Man Fall in Love with You – wikiHow. It makes for some interesting reading… but there are many things about the article I just don’t understand. Oh, and never forget: Don’t look like a stalker! Well maybe I dig stalker-chicks? How to […]

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Tags: Google, lol, make

Prune your Mac’s persona

18Mar10

Monolingual – removing the things you Mac needs to run.

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Tags: architectures, disk space, failure, languages, mac, megabytes, Monolingual, open source, universal binaries

Statically linked POSIX threads for win32

11Mar10

Why do I need pthreads statically linked for Window? I am in the odd situation where I am creating a DLL for use in a third-party application where I have no control over the search paths for DLLs (and I can’t put any DLLs in the search paths available) and I need a cross-platform threading […]

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Tags: gcc, mingw, POSIX, pthreads, windows

Sofortbild

10Mar10

If you have a Nikon DSLR and Mac, download Sofortbild. Why wouldn’t you? It’s free! Sofortbild (which means something like “immediate image” in German) connects to you DSLR via wireless or USB and automatically downloads the images to you computer and gives you a large preview (i.e. “tethered shooting”). You can control the most important […]

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Tags: DSLR, HDR, mac, Nikon, photography, Sofortbild

Just one cog in the Twitterlith

09Mar10

I’ve had a Twitter account for a while, but until now I had just been lurking. Now I will be publishing content, albeit indirectly. I’m using twitterfeed.com to aggregate my flickr, LiveJournal and WordPress posts and publish to Twitter only. I’ve set it up to poll the feeds every hour and provide links to the […]

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Tags: flickr, livejournal, meta, twitter, twitterfeed

remastersys

09Mar10

I just tried out remastersys for Ubuntu for the first time. It’s a load of awesome. I needed to create a demo CD with a load of stuff pre-installed (including apache, mysql, custom plugins and a web browser), to show off a new web app. (We don’t want to host it on our servers because […]

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Tags: linux, livecd, remastersys, success, ubuntu

WordPress has failed me already…

09Mar10

Twice! You sunk my battleship. =( The nice WYSIWYG editor crashed Firefox. I don’t really know who is at fault. Bug: You can’t have angled brackets <…> in the title of a post! You have to escape them manually with &lt;…&gt; respectively. The editor is fine, though. Also, why do I have to pay for […]

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Tags: wordpress

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09Mar10

It’s about time I started writing about some of the odd things I come across from day to day… I’ve been meaning to start this for ages, mostly because I’m sure there will be other people coming across the same problems as me and they might just like to know how I did (or didn’t) […]

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Tags: meta, wordpress