Martin Falatic’s Techno Blog

I noticed this article at Lifehacker today about how much data today’s photocopiers retain.  It may seem like sensationalist journalism but it’s actually quite interesting and worrisome.  People are growing accustomed to the idea of securing personal data, not giving out account number via email, using passwords, that sort of thing, but one doesn’t usually [...]

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Update 1: This procedure works on the zxing-1.4.zip source base.  I’m trying to figure out why it doesn’t want to work easily with the most current SVN code (e.g., rev 1217 or 1220).  I thought it was just some preloading weirdness that caused the Java Stack Overflow errors, then I thought it was Subversion related, [...]

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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! Here’s the details:

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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 far from the simple experiment it ought to have been, so I’m sharing my experience to [...]

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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 this I’ve learned a couple of useful things that might be worthwhile to others working [...]

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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).
I did some searching… turns out there are lots of complaints out there about this sort of [...]

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