I notice that I have a tendency to set out to write multi-part (“to be continued next week”) blog posts and then move on to something else and never come back and write the next part. Now that I have finished the upgrade to EP Office I am happily back working on my Linux partition,… Continue reading Wacky UAC – Part Deux
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Third Season Screenshots
Some screenshots from the the 3 season DVDs. Enjoy.
Spaces in Paths are Evil!
This comes as no surprise to anyone who has wrestled with this problem. While trying to make sure that the EP Simulator program builds and runs on Windows, I ran into trouble using absolute paths in my qmake *.pro files. Qmake is a tool from Qt Software that generates a Makefile that builds the program.… Continue reading Spaces in Paths are Evil!
Wacky UAC – Part I
During our current work on upgrading EP Office, I ran smack into the wackiness that is Vista UAC (User Access Control). If you use Vista at all, you know what that is. You start a program, everything seems to freeze for an inordinate period of time, then, the screen goes gray, and the dreaded UAC… Continue reading Wacky UAC – Part I
Emacs 23 and Fun with Org Mode
I installed Emacs version 23 the other day on my machines. Nice anti-aliased fonts and quicker startup times — plus a lot of things that should be defaults (like transient-mark-mode) but weren’t and which you were forced to put into your .emacs file under earlier versions are now defaults. Meanwhile, not quite related, but not… Continue reading Emacs 23 and Fun with Org Mode
Philip Jose Farmer
One of my favorites authors, Philip Jose Farmer, passed away this past February, at age 91. I still remember back to the 1960s sitting in the car after going out shopping with my parents in Jenkintown, PA, reading the first chapter of the first World of Tiers books, The Maker of Universes, in a green-covered… Continue reading Philip Jose Farmer
Some Useful Emacs Commands
I have been using Emacs for editing source code, and have found that I can do things faster and faster the more I use the program. If I then go and use an IDE such as the new Qt Creator (which has vi but not emacs key bindings as an option) I am incredibly frustrated… Continue reading Some Useful Emacs Commands
The Great Depression 2.0
I think the current economic crisis was predictable and inevitable, it was only the exact timing that was tricky to determine ahead of time — similar to the situation in California where seismologists say that a big earthquake is coming, but no one knows when it will happen. Over the years there have been some… Continue reading The Great Depression 2.0
The Reavers by George MacDonald Fraser
As noted in an earlier post, this was George MacDonald Fraser’s last book. Â Fraser is best known for the wonderful Flashman novels, recounting the adventures of Victorian era swag Harry Flashman, who was, certainly not by his bidding, involved in nearly every conflict of the 19th century. Besides the Flashman novels, Fraser wrote several other… Continue reading The Reavers by George MacDonald Fraser
Triple Booting on SuperSluggo
I’ve been maintaining EP Office on my Panasonic Toughbook laptop Krell, which dual boots Windows XP and OpenSuse 11.0. SuperSluggo, my main desktop dual boots OpenSuse 10.3 and Windows Vista. Unfortunately all my development tools for EP Office are older versions, such as InstallShield Express 4.0, and won’t run on Vista. So it was time… Continue reading Triple Booting on SuperSluggo