Author Archives: Martin Falatic

Building ZXing for Android part 3 – Using Eclipse

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

Several iterations of updates below:

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Building ZXing for Android part 2 – Subversion!

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

Well, that was fast!  I decided to give Subversion a whirl with the ZXing codebase before signing off for the night… and I apparently chose well when I selected TortoiseSVN as my Subversion client for Windows! It went very smoothly! … Continue reading →

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Building ZXing for Android – lessons learned

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

Updated based on feedback from the ZXing team. Tonight I decided to try my hand again at building an Android app – this time, one that should in theory be easy and yet feature-rich enough to learn from.  It was … Continue reading →

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Fun with bootable flash drives!

Posted on April 21, 2009 by

I’ve been fiddling with making bootable flash drives lately, via UBCD4Win for the most part.  It’s actually come in handy a few times in the last month alone and the new v3.50 just came out today!  In the course of … Continue reading →

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Windows Defender apparent false alarm (Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack)

Posted on March 10, 2009 by

I got an alarming popup from Windows Defender tonight: it had detected Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.  That’s pretty worrisome and unexpected!  I looked at the file but it seemed uninteresting.  The only non-comment entries were: 127.0.0.1       localhost ::1             localhost

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Vista SP1, WMP11 and Netflix – a solution

Posted on December 21, 2008 by

I recently upgraded to Windows Vista Business (SP1) from WinXP Pro.  It went relatively well but I was annoyed today when any attempt to use Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” feature from IE 7 caused it to crash! (the “Indiv01.key” error).

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Blog #2: The Quickening

Posted on October 7, 2007 by

Ok, not-so-quick considering the time since I wrote the last one. What all does one write on a blog that’s purposely sanitized so it won’t offend past, present or future employers? Something intended to be neutral and unassuming? Frankly not … Continue reading →

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Why is a mouse when it spins?

Posted on April 5, 2007 by

Hmm… I got my domain here about 8 years ago and as far as web things go I’ve not done a thing with it. I wonder if there’s some sort of award for having the oldest “Under Construction” page?

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