Browsing the blog archives for April, 2008

NodeQuota 1.0.3 Released!

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OK, so I’ve released a new version of NodeQuota. You can get it here: NodeQuota. Fixes all the bugs I know about and gives you something usable. Please let me know if you find it useful. I won’t be adding any more features until I get the interface specification from Internode, but I’ll fix bugs if you [...]

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NodeQuota 1.0.1

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NodeQuota is a menu status bar widget that periodically checks your Internode quota and reports how much you’ve used. It’s version 1.0, doesn’t have a great number of features, but I’ll work on adding a bunch more if people like it. Project Page This is more of a quick test of various technologies, mostly Cocoa Bindings and [...]

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First pic of Apple Store in Sydney!

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I work around the corner from the Apple Store in Sydney, and I noticed that at the beginning of this week, they took the cover off the side of the building. So I took my camera with me this morning and took a photo of it! You can see the class fronting, still mostly covered, and [...]

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Acer AL2416W’s magic smoke escaped!

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I bought two Acer AL2416W monitors about 2 years ago when we were in Japan. Great monitors, high resolution, good colour, and they’re pretty cheap – only 100,000 yen new at the time, now they’re down near the $450AU mark. But a few months ago, my wife and I were eating dinner, and there was a [...]

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building gsoap on solaris

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If you’re building gSoap on Solaris 10 (or below) you might run across this “Broken Pipe” issue with GNU bison: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/d287582/gsoap-2.7/gsoap/src’ bison -y  -d -v `test -f ’soapcpp2_yacc.y’ || echo ‘./’`soapcpp2_yacc.y make[4]: *** [soapcpp2_yacc.c] Broken Pipe make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/d287582/gsoap-2.7/gsoap/src’ make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/d287582/gsoap-2.7/gsoap’ make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/d287582/gsoap-2.7/gsoap’ make[1]: *** [all-recursive] [...]

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