A friend of mine recently downloaded and tried to build Linrad (http://www.sm5bsz.com/linuxdsp/linrad.htm) but it failed with an error saying that a buffer overflow would occur. He is using Ubuntu 10.04 and the reason for this failure would appear to be ‘gcc’ being strict and be glad it is! The essence of the problem is that [...]
1. June 2010.
Drupal Droppings: variable_get tamed!
A more concise way to use variable_get and improve coding quality at the same time!
11. November 2009.
StumpWM: You *must* add this to .stumpwmrc *now*
I found this today, and all I can say is I like it even more!! I know that it is supposed to be a keyboard-driven thing but just nudging the mouse around makes it easier to get your head around the rest of the system instead of just fighting to remember to shift the focus [...]
11. November 2009.
Self-rescue! What to do if you changed stumpwm prefix key to something dumb!
Having used ratpoison quite a bit in the past on days when I get sick and tired clicking and dragging this window out of the way of that window to make room for the other window, I found StumpWM, a tiling window manager. Amongst certain parts of the hacker community, these are gathering more and [...]
12. October 2009.
Getting JWPlayer To Auto-Play Through An RSS Playlist.
(For the interminably impatient: add “repeat” = “list” or “repeat” = “always” to the flashvars section of the Javascript or the actual Flashvars variable. Job done.) I have recently been tasked with setting up the awesome JWPlayer to play video from multiple sources and CDN providers including Limelight and Octoshape. So I promptly checked out [...]
8. October 2009.
Watching Me Watching You!
How to automate and record screen-grabbing on your Mac for free(!) to build an image sequence of just exactly what you were doing all day…
8. October 2009.
The (2) Golden Rules of Programming
Yup. Whatever else you think you may know or think you may need to know, all you really need to know is the two rules…