2005-04-04
I did a small presentation on the subject of internationalization [http://www.vankuik.nl/bart/docs/i18n_part1.ppt.zip . . . Unicode, the ISO-8859 alphabet soup, the Windows encodings and more are touched upon. The presentation . . .
1K - last updated 2005-04-05 19:45 UTC by 6514
2005-04-09
(Normally entries are in English, but this is applicable to Dutch users only). Om te oefenen voor het . . . Promanent]. Het oefenprogramma is een Windows applicatie. Echter, dit programma lijkt in . . .
2K - last updated 2005-04-10 08:00 UTC by 6514
2005-04-14
I regularly buy a new version of Codeweavers' [http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/ CrossOver . . . Wine] -- a package to run Windows software on Linux. All their code is open source, . . .
2K - last updated 2005-04-14 14:57 UTC by 6514
2005-05-26
Adding search engines to Firefox is so easy that it's embarrassing. As noted before, I'm using [http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ . . . linux boxes are usually set to utf-8, while Windows installations in the Western world use win-1252 . . .
2K - last updated 2005-06-22 17:17 UTC by 6514
2006-10-05 Character set encoding
Today, I received an e-mail from Amazon: From: "Amazon.co.uk" <auto-shipping@amazon.co.uk> Subject: Your . . . to menu View -> Character Encoding -> Western (Windows-1252) (or ISO 8859-1). And the pound sign is . . . didn't caught this because they test on a Windows machine with Outlook or Outlook Express, completely . . . forgetting about Apple's, Linux boxes, and Windows machines which don't have the character set . . . by default set to Windows-1252 but to some other language like Russian. . . .
2K - last updated 2006-10-05 09:12 UTC by bvankuik
2006-10-23 Keeping an eye on logs
When developing, you often want to keep an eye on several logs at a time. ''gnome-terminal'' is ideal . . . profile for logging. You could give these windows/tabs a special background color to set them . . .
2K - last updated 2006-10-23 07:49 UTC by bvankuik
2008-10-16 analyzing a running process
Today I was notified that our custom-developed lab software suite had crashed. Having a look, it turns . . . _id=48, _a=0xbfd419c8) at src/moc_Windows.cpp:248 #18 0x08a14892 in QMetaObject::activate . . .
4K - last updated 2008-10-20 06:32 UTC by 6514
2010-10-08 SpaceWire at SRON
The purpose of SpaceWire (short: SpWi), is a standard to connect pieces of a satellite for data retrieval . . . Dynamic Engineering. The Linux as well as the Windows drivers were unable to get the required speed. . . .
4K - last updated 2010-10-08 08:54 UTC by 6514
2011-09-05 From iPhone to Android
Today, my iPhone 3G lost its reception in the middle of the city, and that wasn't the first time. Since . . . Kies, a program which runs on both OS X and Windows. Except the OS X version only supports four . . . on my Mac, so I can run Kies on a virtualized Windows. For the sake of Google, I repeat: ''if you . . .
3K - last updated 2011-09-08 08:34 UTC by 6514
2014-01-29 tmux and X11
Recently I've been playing around with [http://tmux.sourceforge.net tmux] . For all you neckbeards, that's . . . into and run "tmux -CC attach" and the iTerm2 windows will reopen in the same state they were in . . .
2K - last updated 2014-06-11 11:09 UTC by 6514
2016-04-28 USB speakers
Since ages, I've had these [http://support.logitech.com/en_us/product/v20-notebook-speakers Logitech . . . supported on every OS that I know: Linux, OS X, Windows. Until recently, people would ask me where . . .
2K - last updated 2016-12-07 07:57 UTC by 6514
2016-12-25 Firefox crashes on late 2016 MacBook Pro
I've been using Firefox on a late 2016 MacBook Pro, running macOS 10.12.2. Every time the laptop wakes . . . "When Firefox starts". Set this to "Show my windows and tabs from last time". Then install Hammerspoon, . . .
2K - last updated 2016-12-25 17:18 UTC by 6514
2019-09-16 Objective-C project without storyboard in Xcode 11
Create a new project and open the ViewController.h. Optionally add the following lines to viewDidLoad: . . . UIWindow *window = [UIWindow new]; [window setWindowScene:(UIWindowScene *)scene]; window.rootViewController . . .
2K - last updated 2019-09-16 07:03 UTC by 6514
Adjusting Starfighter
Reading source code is one of those things that I feel that nobody likes, while the advantages are so . . . game! Note: I'm running Linux. If you're running Windows, install Cygwin, which gives you all the GNU . . .
9K - last updated 2007-05-01 13:56 UTC by bvankuik
Another viewpoint on open source software
The other day I had an interesting conversation with a girl who works at a large multinational bank for . . . Isn't it true that Linux looks a lot like Windows? B: ''Well, sometimes it seems that every version . . .
6K - last updated 2005-04-23 20:21 UTC by 6514
Bookmarks to check out sometime
* [http://openejb.codehaus.org/ OpenEJB], with an additional [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/12/ejb_tomcat.html . . . [http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/FAQ_windows.html Running PostgreSQL 8.0 on Windows] * [http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/08/25/220373.aspx . . .
1K - last updated 2006-08-03 14:26 UTC by 6514
Get QEMU running
To get QEMU running, take the following steps: # Download the [http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso . . . results = I ran the BYTEmark benchmark on a Windows 2000 Professional guest inside QEMU on a Linux . . . 329,050,000|| ||FP Emulation || 79.248|| || ||''Windows 2000 Pro guest in QEMU 0.7.0'' || ||Numeric . . .
2K - last updated 2005-05-16 06:31 UTC by 6514
Internationalization
== WARNING WORK IN PROGRESS == == "Geïrriteerd" == Are you a West-European software developer who: # . . . standard is the ISO-8859 family and its Windows equivalents. This ISO standard is an 8-bit . . . sign and some French stuff. Then there's the Windows encodings. There are equivalents: ISO-8859-1 . . . becomes Windows-1252 a.k.a. ''cp1251'' a.k.a. WinLatin1. The . . . windows encodings contain extra characters like smart/curly . . .
10K - last updated 2005-12-04 15:35 UTC by 6514
JDeveloper on Linux
Here I'm listing some news, tips, problems and issues I found while running JDeveloper on Linux. For . . . Close off JDeveloper on your Linux box * Find a Windows machine with a complete Designer installation . . . Linux! The OJVM was previously only available on Windows. I've tried it and the debugger is much more . . .
15K - last updated 2006-01-30 14:56 UTC by 6514
Linux on the Desktop
== Linux on the desktop for an Oracle consultant == Larry painted a powerful present and future for Linux, . . . that make a replacement (not an addition) to Windows difficult. This article tries to point out . . . Linux machine. This can be done using Wine, a Windows emulator. Wine can of course be downloaded . . . IE-specific JavaScript or require exotic (read Windows-only) plugins. A good (or rather, bad) example . . . Also, Webforms is a Java applet but requires a Windows-only plugin to load it (JInitiator). CodeWeavers . . .
6K - last updated 2005-04-19 13:33 UTC by 6514
MySQL
= Installation = Install as usual for your distribution. For Debian, this means: $ sudo apt-get install . . . innodb_file_per_table This triggers a bug on Windows, so be careful. = Printing in hex = To print . . .
8K - last updated 2023-01-30 09:45 UTC by bartvk
Parsing and transforming RDF files in PLSQL
When you say 'XML', you'd probably also say 'Java' -- until now, because a stock Oracle database installation . . . 54 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT 4.0)'); 55 l_resp := utl_http.get_response(l_req); . . .
15K - last updated 2005-03-19 06:57 UTC by 6514
Queuing Mechanisms
= Queuing Mechanisms = Even though I read it cover to cover, I regularly reread chapters of [http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ . . . your environment consists of several platforms (Windows, Unix, Java, Oracle, maybe some IBM stuff) . . .
6K - last updated 2014-02-07 13:28 UTC by 6514
Random Linux Stuff
= Swap caps lock and Escape on the console = If you run Debian, add the following line to /etc/console-tools/remap: . . . uubp > uubp.html = Mounting shares = To mount a Windows share, create a directory ''share'' in your . . .
4K - last updated 2007-05-03 07:47 UTC by bvankuik
Samba
Creating a Samba share that's writeable by everyone: # groupadd smbguest # useradd -g smbguest -d /dev/null . . . /share read only = no Then mount the share under Windows as \\ip.address.to.server\public On Linux, . . .
1K - last updated 2008-06-02 18:31 UTC by 6514
Screen
When you're ssh'ing to a specific remote server regularly, [http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html . . . are some security implications. = Presetting windows = A useful feature of GNU Screen is to be able . . . to preset a number of windows and give them names. To do this, create a file . . . the bottom of the terminal screen. To show all windows in a status bar, add the following line: caption . . .
7K - last updated 2009-05-26 14:24 UTC by 6514
System administration links
* http://www.dracoware.com/ = Control panels, Windows and Linux = * http://www.cubepanel.com/ * http://www.thezpanel.com/ . . .
1K - last updated 2005-11-09 07:32 UTC by 6514
Tracking Issues
Have you ever logged a bug against an (open source) piece of software? Were you happy with the results? . . . attached documents and tested on both Windows and Linux. One and a half year later, the bug . . .
5K - last updated 2005-10-11 10:18 UTC by 6514
Trust Mobile Spycam 100
I got hold of a Trust Mobile Spycam 100, see also http://www.trust.com/12541. Of course, a driver for . . . Michel Xhaard suggested the [[trust100.inf]] Windows driver inf file might be useful. For an interpretation . . .
3K - last updated 2005-03-16 12:07 UTC by 6514
Using Screen
= THIS IS AN OLD VERSION = PLEASE CHECK THE MORE RECENT PAGE: [[Screen]]. When you're ssh'ing to a specific . . . are some security implications. = Presetting windows = A useful feature of screen is to be able . . . to preset a number of windows and give them names. To do this, create a file . . . a particular window. = Caption = To show all windows in a status bar, add the following line: caption . . .
6K - last updated 2009-05-20 09:04 UTC by 6514
Windows
= Essential software = [[winscp2.exe]] [[putty.exe]] [[pscp.exe]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/ . . . elsewhere. Another common memory usage metric in Windows can be obtained from Perfmon (perfmon.msc, . . . = Start Regedit, find HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ Winlogon, Change the value . . . Running Windows with . . . = After installation = A newly-installed Windows PC is basically useless. The usual suspects . . .
3K - last updated 2010-02-17 21:00 UTC by 6514
Windows driver inf file
application/octet-stream
35K - last updated 2005-03-12 17:24 UTC by 6514
trust100.inf Windows driver inf file
application/octet-stream
35K - last updated 2005-03-12 17:25 UTC by 6514
vankuik.nl
= Latest weblog entries = <journal 5> = Weblog Archive = [[Weblog_entries_2024]] [[Weblog_entries_2023]] . . . System administration: * [[Linux]] * [[Windows]] * [[OS_X]] * [[Xen]] Others: * [[ImageMagick]] . . .
4K - last updated 2024-04-16 10:29 UTC by bartvk
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