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What's wrong with MacOS X?

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Submitted by Ulf on Fri, 2007-09-14 14:14.

As posted earlier, I got a MacBook at work and have been trying it out for some time now. Overall I find it very nice and convenient, although the user interface does require some getting used to. However, some of the details can be very frustrating.


ISCAS 2007

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Submitted by Ulf on Fri, 2007-06-29 19:18.
Porzellanmaske

Keyboard Layout US with Umlauts

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Submitted by Ulf on Wed, 2007-06-20 13:35.

Find it at (http://www.schiessle.org/howto/keymap.shtml) http://www.schiessle.org/howto/keymap.php.


Make Monitor "AOC LM2028" work with nVidia Drivers

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Submitted by Ulf on Tue, 2007-06-19 14:10.

At work, I’ve got an AOC LM2028 monitor, which is supposed to do a resolution of 1600x1200. However, using it with a nVidia card, it consistently only shows up with 1280x1024. The solution is very simple, and took me two hours to find:

Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"

Added to the “Device” section.


How to install Feisty Fawn from an old Live-CD

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Submitted by Ulf on Sat, 2007-06-16 07:46.

Use gparted to create a new partition or format an old one.

Open a terminal, and do “sudo -i” to get a superuser shell.

Get and install a current debootstrap package.

Scrap that. A couple frustrated hours later I decided it’s not going to be possible in any meaningful way and got a blank CD from my neighbor. Crap! :-(

Now I think I know how one could do it, but I havn’t tried:

  1. install old version of ubuntu
  2. get the netboot linux kernel and initrd
  3. use grub to boot the netboot image

A Good Year

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Submitted by Ulf on Fri, 2007-06-15 22:57.

I just love this movie. It’s the best movie evar!!


JSR 294 - Superpackages

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Submitted by Ulf on Fri, 2007-06-15 00:53.

JSR 294 is a proposal to add superpackages to the java language. I’ve been observing the discussion on the public mailing list, and I’ve thought about the proposals. Finally I’ve decided to voice my concerns about the current discussion:

The current proposal seems conceptually with its support of nested superpackages overly complex. As I understand it, every superpackage can have a tree-like hierarchical substructure of nested superpackages, which are almost, but not quite superpackages.


Server Changes

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Submitted by Ulf on Fri, 2007-06-15 00:46.

We’ve changed our http server, and while doing that I’ve finally gotten around to producing usage statistics for all the websites, and random-equation has almost 500 Hits per day!

That’s pretty cool, but almost noone ever comments anything. So, go on, say something!


My ICQ Accounts

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Submitted by Ulf on Wed, 2007-06-06 12:16.

Don't laugh!


Qt Memory (Mis-)Management?

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Submitted by Ulf on Tue, 2007-05-29 16:32.

The following is valid C++ Qt code for Qt 3.


#include <qapplication.h>
#include <qpushbutton.h>
#include <qhbox.h>

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
QApplication a( argc, argv );
QPushButton hello2("Dude!", 0);
QHBox box(0);
QPoint point(0, 0);
hello2.reparent(&box, point);
// return a.exec();
}

What does it do?