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C++ Template Wrestling
Had programming fun today with C++ template class method specialisation for some audio processing software.
To go from detecting DTMF (Bell's Touch Tone (TM) telephone dialing system) to also detecting low frequency subaudible sound signals, I had to change quite a few things (sampling rates (35hz audio needs to be listened to longer and slower ( Read more... ) -
Haiku OS Progress
I've finally had enough time (after an unexpected summer of cottage repairs) to upgrade my newish (3 year old first generation Intel i5 processor) PC hardware to max out the RAM and use an SSD for booting. It's half set up, enough to run Haiku and Windows 7 and sometimes both via VirtualBox. Still waiting for Fedora 18 so I can experiment with ( Read more... ) -
Fedora 17 and RTL8139 Network Card Problems
Just in case someone else tries to install Fedora 17 Linux on an Intel 440BX based motherboard with dual 550Mhz Pentium III processors and a Realtek RTL8139 ethernet card, here are some tips for getting it to work ( Read more... ) -
Home Work
One thing about being on sabbatical is that I have time to catch up on old chores. Things like pruning an ewe bush (tree sized now), which I see from the rings was last done about 20 years ago. Some jobs seem small but get bigger, like adding a mail slot to the door. Easy enough, but then the door needs painting. A few days and several hours of ( Read more... ) -
Cloud Ship Traders Finished
We finally finished porting the Artech game engine to the iPad2, my part being the iOS side of things with Dave (our lower level engine guru) taking care of the OpenGL rendering glue. Though of course I end up having to fix things in the OpenGL side when iPad specific problems get revealed (that's how I got a crash course in OpenGL shaders and ( Read more... ) -
Animation Festival 2009
Well, I'm back from almost a week of watching cartoons at the Ottawa International Animation Festival ( Read more... ) -
Annoyingly Cold?
One of my BeOS acquaintances was complaining about cold 45F temperatures keeping him indoors. Ha ( Read more... ) -
Still not Much
Too much theatre and other fun activities, not enough time to write here or elsewhere. About one message every 6 months is my speed :-) -
Not Much Time
Not much time to post, what with work and relatives taking up more time than before. Got to get that BitTorrent client for BeOS updated... -
Yet More Entertainments
Not too much to report - just too much entertainment in the last week. It started with Stones in his Pockets, a play about an American film company filming in Ireland. Of course, they want the hokey stereotypes, while the locals are a lot more modern. But still ordinary folk down on their luck (one had a video store that went bust, another ( Read more... )