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TIP: Horizontal Split Screen in NotePad++

2009-06-17T13:54:00.003-04:00

Apparently it's possible to get horizontal split screens in Notepad++. Check it: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/commun/screenshots/scrsh_rotate.gif

(Thanks cocinerox!)

check this out. it's awesome

2009-04-12T20:22:00.002-04:00

check this out. it's awesome: http://monome.org/

this video makes me want to cry:

Welcome to Monome from sam_square on Vimeo.

these people make synthesizer controllers from computers. very very cool.

delicious thumbnails

2009-03-21T23:05:00.006-04:00

Ever wish you could see thumbnail images of those delicious link feeds? now you can. this handy tool will take a delicious rss feed and add thumbnails to it.

iPhone Programming Tip: How to find the full URL of a file within your Application's Bundle

2008-10-06T17:44:00.004-04:00

How to find the full URL of a file within your Application's Bundle (mainBundle)

This would return the full URL of a file named "Sound2.caf":

CFURLRef   fileURL;
   NSString *path;
   path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Sound2" ofType:@"caf"];
   fileURL = (CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];

Most useful tip on setting up cygwin ever!

2008-09-29T18:45:00.003-04:00

Recently I was trying to figure out some issues I was having with Cygwin. Turned out my Logitech webcam drivers were screwing with Cygwin. Here's the solution: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00180.html

And I quote:

Hello,

This afternoon, for the first time, I began experiencing the

C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap .... ... child_copy: stack write copy failed,...

errors that have been reported on this list before. I am getting these errors on every '#! /bin/bash' script, though I can initially open a bash shell.

I tried changing the heap sizes, and tried rebaseall - neither made a difference.

Earlier today I had installed the drivers for my new Logitech webcam. Suspecting that these might be the problem, I killed all the Logitech processes, restarted all my Cygwin services, restarted Cygwin/X, and lo & behold, all the errors disappeared and everything worked fine.

It'd be great to get these to work together, but not the end of the world if its not possible. Any thoughts?

Thank you Thank you Thank you! That's it exactly. I was wondering why my Cygwin/X stuff started behaving badly. Unfortunately, I had just done a big update, so I blamed that for awhile. But this is definitely it.

And after much experimentation, I think you just need to stop one file from running. I'm not sure what was causing it to run, as it wasn't in any of my startup folder. But if you rename

/program files/common/logitech/LVMVFM/LVPrcSrv.exe

to something else (I called it LVPrcSrv.exe.old), Cygwin/X starts working again, and there is no loss of functionality that I can tell.

-- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Jiggle The Handle, a personal blog http://jiggle.anaze.us

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

bouncing balls

2008-09-05T21:56:00.000-04:00

highly recommended

How do I get a recursive list of files from the command-line?

2008-06-16T11:53:00.001-04:00

This is very useful when trying to figure out what files are on a drive. This will provide you with full paths for all the files in and below the directory you run it from.

How do I get a recursive list of files from the command-line?

Use the DOS "dir /A:-D /B /S" command.

Exporting and Importing Dialup and VPN Connections

2008-05-06T11:17:00.001-04:00

Exporting and Importing Dialup and VPN Connections

The Microsoft "Eolas Patch" is being rolled back!

2008-03-05T12:07:00.001-05:00

I just made a pleasant discovery: Microsoft is rolling back its Eolas-patent patch.

Here is an article about the rollback. It states, among other things, that a new version of Internet Explorer will be released sans "Click Here To Activate" behavior in April of 2008.

In anticipation of this, they have release a preview of what life will be like when they release the next version of IE. This preview can be downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947518.

the quick update

2008-02-18T15:20:00.007-05:00

Choosing RSS feeds is a lifelong pursuit. I'm always on the hunt. I'm also always jettisoning stuff. I can't help it--the second I add new feeds to my roster, they seem to change, or stop producing content or (worse still) increase their output drastically.

Having a little of something unique is great, but if the content is really monolithic there's no way I'll end up sticking with it. It is the rare feed that will stay in my reader more than a few weeks before being vetoed. And as I find better feeds, I get more and more picky. Here are my ground rules: Content should be substantive but not lengthy; novel but not jokey; sometimes visual but always accompanied by text; if it is political it can't be preachy. Picking a good mix of feeds is an esthetic gesture and I retain full authorship over my own special blend. A lot of it has to do with texture. I'm a big fan of both pictures and text, although sometimes (certainly the case with almost all flickr feeds) I have to settle for just pictures. The perfect feed produces 1-3 stories every 3 or so days.

Another thing I've discovered in my travels is that not all blogs make good feeds. There's a great new blog here in Providence called Daily Dose. I read it mainly for event listings and was initially irritated by the non-stop barrage of political (read: Obama-related) posts (preaching to the choir, anyway). Anyway, it's really grown on me (check it several times a day). That being said I would hate to have to pore through all of those posts every time I opened up Google Reader. Go figure. (It's a complicated world, you know, what with all this technology.)

Last night, I read a lot last night about I. F. Stone, a man about whom I knew nothing. Check it out. Seems he premised his entire career on the idea that governments lie (and?). He's most famous for exposing a lot of undocumented stuff about the Korean war. I'll probably try and pick up some of his books on half.com.

Links:

Okay, I think that's about it.

David

Aquabee Sketchbook: Untitled Pastel by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-28T02:59:00.000-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook: Untitled Pastel - My grandma used to sit and do pastels for hours and hours. I remember seeing her do this as a small child. It was a medium she was always very fond of. Once, when I was maybe 11 or 12 she gave me a set of pastels for my birthday.

Aquabee Sketch: Man Reclining by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-23T00:59:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook: Reclining Man - I really like this sketch! I especially like the expression on the man's face.

Aquabee Sketch: Child with Book by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-21T11:10:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook: Child with Book - A portrait of a child holding a book (my interpretation) taken from her Aquabee sketchbook. The more I look at these sketches the more I wonder what period they date from. Could probably be determined from the Aquabee design on the cover (when were these made?). Of course that would only tell us when the sketchbook dates from, not when the sketches were made.

Aquabee Sketch: Man by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-07T13:27:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook - A portrait of a man taken from her Aquabee sketchbook.

Aquabee Sketchbook: Seated Woman by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-06T19:08:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook - My grandmother recently passed away. As a something of tribute to her, I will be posting a curated selection of sketches from her oeuvre every few days (so basically forever -- she drew a lot!).

Aquabee Sketchbook: Seated Woman - This one is of a seated woman. She didn't title it, I did.

Grandmother Movie Stills: Man Experiences Trauma

2007-09-03T17:41:00.000-04:00

My grandmother, Eleanor, was a film producer and distributer for 30+ years. As a result, I've now come into a huge number of film stills all ostensibly from b-movies she produced/helped distribute. I will be publishing them here on a weekly basis. The first one shows a man clearly experiencing some sort of trauma. May he recover from what ails him, God willing.

Moving Blogger posts

2007-07-08T20:36:00.000-04:00

I'm in the position of wanting to move a crapload of my old blog posts to either this blog or to my other, rockstar, blog without doing real work. Blogger doesn't offer anything in the way of tools to do this.

Tour De France 2K7

2007-07-08T20:20:00.000-04:00

I've decided that I want to care about the Tour De France this year. I guess some part of it is nostalgia from when I lived in Switzerland--I remember everyone watching it religiously, but of course at that time I wasn't really very into it. I'm not that intent on watching it actively, but I really want to be able to have it on in the background. The problem is, ESPN doesn't seem to be carrying it (at least not on any of the basic cable channels we get). So I've turned to the WEB. Here's what I've found:

Ubilabs has an online map (mapping courtesy of Google Maps) that displays the actual real-time positions of all the cyclists. This is sort of hard to deal with (at least for me), because by the time I'm ready to watch some real-time action, each stage is already over. I'm beginning to see that even if ESPN televise this I wouldn't be watching it. http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/
Yahoo UK! has a nice page with a bunch of different panels including a tracker, live audio, and a breakdown of each stages winners, times, etc. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/

HP Pavilion a1600n Drivers

2007-01-22T22:03:00.000-05:00

I just got myself an HP Pavilion a1600n Media Center PC. I formatted, got rid of the "recovery partition" and installed Windows XP. Finding the drivers for was a real pain. Basically the thing to remember is that most of the motherboard's components were made by NVIDIA. After installing Windows XP, I realized that I had essentially screwed up in installing a 32-bit OS when a perfectly 64-bit version of XP exists. So I had to find all the drivers again...in 64-bit version. Here's what I found:

64-bit

GeForce 6150 LE (Graphics) driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_93.71.html

ForceWare Release 90
Version: 93.71
Release Date: November 2, 2006
WHQL Certified
File is named: 93.71_forceware_winxp64_english_whql.exe
nForce 430/410 driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_winxp64_8.26_11.09.html

Version: 8.26 for nForce 430 (MCP51), 410
Version: 11.09 for 430 (MCP61), 405, 400
Release Date: January 5, 2007
WHQL Certified
File is named: 8.26_11.09_nforce_winxp64_english.exe

RealTek sound drivers: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...GetDown=false

Windows 2000, Windows XP/2003(32/64 bits) Driver only (Executable file)

A CSS-based Paint program

2006-09-30T23:51:00.000-04:00

And here is the css-based paint program I considered making in the previous post.

David

I wish there were a website where graphic design could be done online

2006-09-23T17:26:00.000-04:00

I wish there were a website where graphic design could be done online. Something that takes advantage of what HTML 4.0 already offers us in the way of graphical elements.

div's and...well I guess even just div's would be totally amazing. Like a sort of a div

painter. Something with a smooth, intuitive interface. Not just additive but something where you could take the divs and re-size them. Wouldn't that be something. And I guess text, right? You could do text-boxes within canvas. And the fonts at your disposal would be...anything that is on your machine. Of course, we could work with .eot's as well so that some fonts would be preloaded. When you were done you'd have the option of getting the html or...err...taking a screenshot. Of course, when CSS 3.0 comes out, I expect the whole world will change.

Right now, I'm listening to Ulrich Schnauss's masterpiece, A Strangely Isolated Place. I can't say enough about this record.

David

Eolas Patch Test

2006-08-24T17:48:00.000-04:00

If your browser is affected by the so-called Internet Explorer Eolas patch, a gray box should appear around the following flash movie.

Talk about ripping off last.fm

2006-08-17T17:40:00.000-04:00

Look here. Google has a new feature in Google Talk that allows you to send Google info on what you're currently listening to. Sucks that they didn't just buy last.fm.

2006-06-17T14:47:00.000-04:00

Slowly—on saturdays, mondays and wednesdays—I'm creating what I hope will be the definitive catalog of my grandmother's work. I've started a new flickr page which I will continue uploading to and updating. I'm gradually poring over the reams of letters, lists, and slides that she kept detailing sizes and years for all of the works.

2006-05-21T23:55:00.000-04:00

I've been using Synapse Orion for like six years now. Since version 2.5 or something. And now it's on version 6. It's really pretty well put together. For loop-based music stuff I haven't found anything I like better. And yet...

Apparently it doesn't handle Hyper-Threading in Intel chips very well. I've been trying to remix my now 150+ pieces of Orion moodmusic music at 24/96 with better monitors, but my system can't handle the load. It should be able to, of course. It's a P4 2.8Ghz I can run all the same VSTi's and plug-ins in Cubase with no problems. But alas, it seems to be dedicating only half the CPU to Orion. Look at the Task Manager screen to the left, you'll see that the "virtual" processor on the right is getting all the load while the one on the left is untouched. Very frustrating. Suffice it to say I don't think it would handle true multiple processors any differently.
If I go into the bios and turn of Hyper-Threading it performs significantly better, though still not quite as well as Cubase with the same plug-ins.