Browsing category: 'Miscellaneous'

Simple Telnet - Example Application

OpenGL Console Library for Blackberry Native SDK (Playbook)

 
Over the break, I decided to try my hand at some Blackberry native SDK programming since I recently got a playbook. I looked around the App World and noticed there weren't any telnet/ssh tools available for free (that worked the way I wanted) so I...
Upcoming PhD QE Progress

Upcoming PhD QE Progress

 
So I've been doing my PhD for over two years now, and I haven't posted a reflective "state of the thesis" post in quite some time, so here it is. I have maxed out my 50 pages (not included ToC and references) for some time now, it's just been in the...
Xbox 360 Video Sharing with ushare

uShare autostart – Ubuntu 11.04

 
Previously, I installed ushare easily on Ubuntu following a process similar to this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xbox360Media I've recently become annoyed that ushare hasn't been autostarting in Ubuntu 11.04. I suspect it may have something...
Troublesome RAID HDDs

RAID guides for Ubuntu / Linux

 
Today I found myself with a degraded RAID array after a power outage last night. (Yes I know UPS would be useful..) One drive had failed and I have a RAID 5 with three drives and one drive failed. Additionally, since there was some extra room, for...
Texmaker

Ubuntu 11.04 – Latex

 
Just a quick note to myself really about how to get Latex working the way I want on Ubuntu 11.04 (Texmaker GUI, and some fixes for some errors I was getting). The error that was most troublesome was 'kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t! I can't find...