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Author Archives: Martin Falatic
Ah, Maker Faire! BeagleBone, HexBright, etc.
I had a great time at Maker Faire this weekend! I picked up a few items which I’ll quickly summarize here: First, I snagged a BeagleBone Black kit. I haven’t had a chance to open it up yet but it … Continue reading
Windows and the Case of the Unexpectedly Incorrect Desktop Icon
Tonight I moved my installation of Eclipse to another folder. I made sure to update the registry accordingly… this is where NirSoft’s free RegScanner utility came in handy: it’s something like Agent Ransack (another awesome free utility) for registries. I found all the … Continue reading
Github: long-time user, first-time contributor!
> I’ve finally posted some hobby code to Github! < In this case, an Arduino project I’ve been dabbling with for a few weeks now… I’ve successfully combined a Wii nunchuck controller and a long RGB LED strip (WS2811-based) using an Arduino … Continue reading
Memristor simulation with LTspice – a practical example!
Lately I’ve been getting back into the EE groove with some random electronics projects (such as an Arduino-based LED strip driver). I’ve also been dabbling with different circuit simulators like Micro-Cap (which I used back in college but which is … Continue reading
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Exporting passwords from multiple Chrome profiles (to LastPass, ChromePass, et. al.)
Update 1 at the end. Note: this post applies to multiple utilities with this use case, such as NirSoft’s ChromePass and LastPass. This also applies only to Windows (though it may have similarities to workarounds for other OSes). Finally, BEWARE: this involves carefully … Continue reading
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Elementary! MySQL did it, in the CPU, with the the leap second!
I awoke to an alert from a small Ubuntu 12.04 server I have on Linode: lots of CPU usage this morning,which is odd since I haven’t logged in for a while. Hmm. Looked at the CPU graph first, and the … Continue reading
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Android, Eclipse, XML files and weird error messages
More than once, I’ve gotten the following weird problem when looking at an XML layout for Android in Eclipse: Failed to parse file C:\Eclipse_workspace\ButtonTest2\res\drawable\arrow_1.xml Exception details are logged in Window > Show View > Error Log The error itself isn’t … Continue reading
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Thoughts on mobile app crash detection and recovery
As I work on updates to my app, I’m happy to see it’s working quite well. However, inevitably there will be some boundary case that causes an exception, and as I add features (and more importantly, persistent settings) an addition … Continue reading
Android, Honeycomb and the missing menu button…
I’ve been giving some thought to the loss of the menu button (replaced – in a way – by the action bar) in Honeycomb lately and I have to say it’s a damned peculiar choice. The argument is that by … Continue reading
Building the Android emulator for Windows
Today I’ve been investigating an argument parsing bug in Android’s emulator on Windows (a bug that may affect all platforms). The version I’m seeing the bug was in the Android SDK r12 version of the emulator [Yep, r13′s out – … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, build, Cygwin, emulator, Git, MinGW, qemu, Windows
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Windows: hybrid sleep and hibernation
With the latest Windows (Vista and 7) you can select “Hybrid Sleep” as a suspend mode. In essence, it provides the fast restart of your usual sleep mode with the durability of hibernation: it writes the system state to disk … Continue reading
Pinging with Python
2011-10-12 update: Brought in more changes from Jens Diemer’s new repository for the Python 2 version of this project. 2011-09-12 update: The version here is for Python 3.x as described below. Jens Diemer posted an updated version of this to … Continue reading
New (old?) Twitter password stealer making the rounds…
If you click a Twitter link and it sends you to a Twitter login page, beware… look closely at the address bar and ensure you’re actually at Twitter’s login page and not a thieving imposter’s page! Recently a friend on … Continue reading
Moved to a new webhost as well as a new VPS host!
I have two online hosting systems I routinely use: one is a VPS that I use for things like secure proxy (mostly to secure insecure wireless connections) and otherwise keeping my sysadmin skills fresh. The other is a more typical … Continue reading
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Tagged HostGator, Hosting Matters, Linode, shared hosting, Slicehost, VPS
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