I started using LXDE last night, and I’m really liking it. It seems to take a whole ton less memory than Gnome did, and as a result my Intel Atom box runs a lot smoother because it doesn’t have to continuously swap. Anyway, I’ve been customizing some things, and I eventually found myself in plugin development land. LXPanel is the gnome-panel equivalent for LXDE. There doesn’t seem to be a Trash can plugin for it, and I think that’s just [...]
So, I got this Rigol Oscilloscope – I wrote a little instructable about it. One cool feature is the ability to save waveforms to a USB stick. There are many options for the file format, but the default is a WFM file. Now, a true minimalist could just use the CSV option, but the WFM is a binary format that contains a lot more information directly from the scope. I wrote a little C program hosted on github that allows [...]
OOC is cool. Yesterday I started writing some code in it after reading about it on the github blog. Here is the first result: I’m extremely happy with how well this performs. Using the latest ooc Java compiler from the github trunk to handle the each() functions, this compiles down to a bunch of C code, and then is automagically compiled behind the scenes into an ELF Binary! This is totally awesome, and I have to commend nddrylliog and the [...]
This is possibly the best one-liner I’ve ever written: gcc -x c -o /tmp/out – -lgmp
There’s this site that has an equipment exchange I wanted to keep track of. Yet, it’s done with what seems to be a custom php file rather than vbulletin, so none of the usual RSS feeds from the site apply to it. So, I decided to make a scraper/feed-generator to get me the latest version every 5 minutes and generate a nice RSS feed, so I can view it in Google Reader. The volume of posting is low enough that [...]
So, today I was invited to Google Group chat for the first time. This would be really cool on a terminal that’s not equipped with an IM client, since it’s all done through the web with flash and magic. But, since I don’t like having 2 IM clients running at the same time (Pidgin and the Flash one from Google), I decided I needed to rip out the Jabber Group Chat Room name from the invite page. I got some [...]
After obsessing over it today, I decided to write a quick primer on RSA Encryption you can do in your head. It’s pretty simple, and to the point. The numbers are very small. Try it out! I plan to write some code implementing the algorithm. That should be fun.
I was on IRC tonight and someone was having trouble with their NASM homework. I decided to help them by learning NASM and coding up their homework problem for fun. It was pretty cool.
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