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Valentine’s Day
I took the winter banner and cleaned up the code and added rotation (and the rotation interacts with the mouse), along with the obvious graphics changes, for Valentine’s Day. BTW, I love you Deb.
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Winter Banner
And now I have a new Winter themed banner. See the code and assets for it in my processing banners git repo here ( https://github.com/jd-boyd/processingjs-banners ). Processing.js can be found here This expands out into working with particles as objects, which I’ve done before, but is stretching further into the processing.js language further than I’ve…
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Printing from Windows 7 to a Mac
Use the MS Publisher Color Printer driver and connect via LPR/LPD.
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Convert flac to mp3: flac -cd track.flack | lame -h – track.mp3
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Frequency
Last year I wrote 26 posts. That is only half the number I’d hoped for (52), especially since some where just one or two lines, but it isn’t as bad as I thought I was doing. I think part of what makes me feel that I neglect this so much is that some are multiple…
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How I like to build for Windows
I’ve seen a growing number of free software Windows programs where the recommended (or only) build procedure is to cross-build from Linux. I really like this idea. The latest I noticed that did this is the Clementine music player (which I’m rather excited about). This is a fork of amaroK, with the KDE parts stripped…
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10
When I upgraded to 11.04, I stuck with the Ubuntu Classic desktop. With 11.10, that didn’t look feasible anymore, so I bit the bullet to try and learn to cope with Unity. After the install, my first issues were: How to add a program to the Dash, specifically rxvt I use the terminal a lot,…
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Stupid Cloud
It seems that some companies are using cloud services to offer features I’ve wanted for a long time, but only tied to a cloud with a monthly or yearly fee. The latest and most irritating is iCloud. I see no reason that an iDevice shouldn’t be able to sync with a Mac by WiFi. Finally,…
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NFSv4
At some point, my Ubuntu desktop started using NFSv4 to connect to my Solaris file server. The visible symptom caused by this switch was all files showing up as owned by 4294967294:4294967294. The fix turned out to be to edit the file /etc/default/nfs-common to change: NEED_STATD= to: NEED_STATD=”no” and: NEED_IDMAPD= to: NEED_IDMAPD=”yes” Also, change the…
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Ubuntu Unity tricks learned today:
a) make a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications for old school programs to show up.b) Middle click on the dock to launch a second copy of an application.c) Alt+` to switch between windows of the same application like on OSX. Now, I still would like to know why everything is so slow. Maybe I should try…