Author Archives: Jeff Fitzsimons
Stripping Vertical Whitespace Using tr
The Translate command, tr, is available on all Unix-y systems, including Cygwin. tr -d will delete the specified characters from a stream. Several handy escape sequences are provided for stripping newlines, carriage returns, and form-feeds: \f – form feed \n … Continue reading
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B.O.B. Yak Plus versus Ibex versus Panniers
Trailers versus Panniers Based upon my online research, the trailer versus pannier debate will rage on forever. Panniers have the advantage of not requiring you to worry about a trailer. Trailers have the advantage of reducing your frontal area (and … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling
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SetThreadLocale and SetThreadUILanguage for Localization on Windows XP and Vista
Simple Localization In classic Windows programming, the quickest way to handle localized resources is to put all languages into the same resource file, then use SetThreadLocale to tell Windows that it should return resources tagged with the specified language identifier. … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Win32
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Autohide Ubuntu Menu in MythTV
When running MythTV under Ubuntu, the top menu (panel) may appear over MythTV’s output. The panel can be set to auto-hide, but even when hidden, several pixels will be displayed to remind you of its presence. Luckily, the number of … Continue reading
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Hauppauge HVR-1800 with MythTV
The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 is a PCI-Express card which has two tuners: one for ATSC/QAM digital video, and one for NTSC analog video. According to the MythTV wiki, only the digital video tuner is currently supported. Hauppauge’s Windows driver, which … Continue reading
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Underlining Characters in a ToolTip
My product, a toolbar for Outlook Express, uses tooltips to display keyboard shortcuts. For some localization work, I needed to display an underlined character within a tooltip. The only hint I could find was a reference to .Net tooltips. Apparently, … Continue reading
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Tartine Bakery in San Francisco
B, T, and I stopped at Tartine Bakery after “Beer Croquet” (which, due to a lack of a croquet set, became merely “Beer” in Dolores Park). I had the bread pudding and a mocha, and both were excellent. The bread … Continue reading
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Worst Spam Ever
It’s not even really spam. I assume it’s an attempt to validate random email addresses by analyzing bounces.
Posted in Funny, Internet
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Entertainment Center Power Consumption
I used my Kill A Watt to measure the power consumption of various items in my entertainment center. PVR Antec case, Biotstar TF-7050M2 motherboard, Hauppauge tuners, 2.5″ Hitachi drive. 80 watts peak at bootup 65 watts nominal Dell 2001FP 20.1″ … Continue reading
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