http://www.juicydata.comNotes and news - A technology menagerie.2011-03-04 02:34:11.4785572011-03-04 02:34:11.478557http://www.juicydata.com/BuildOpenSSLForWindowsWithDebugSymbolshttp://www.juicydata.com/BuildOpenSSLForWindowsWithDebugSymbols2011-03-04 02:31:38.157560Building OpenSSL for Windows with debug symbols (.pdb) Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. The INSTALL.W32 file in the root of the OpenSSL distribution tarball outlines the steps for building the basic binaries on Windows very clearly. It alludes to enabling debug symbols, but doesn't provide a blow-by-blow account. Here's how: Run vcvars32.ba...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/LaTimes_2011_Feb21http://www.juicydata.com/LaTimes_2011_Feb212011-02-27 09:20:32.608701LaTimes_2011_Feb21 Back to MainPage. Back to Crosswords LA Times Monday, Feb 21, 2011 Maybe a bit harder than other Mondays, but still a pretty gentle introduction to the week. ARI: Magnate Onassis Aristotle Sokratis Onassis DONHO: Hawaiian who san "Pearly Shells" Died 2007, sang pop and traditional pop from 1959 to 2007, on Reprise Records....daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/LATimes_2011_Feb15http://www.juicydata.com/LATimes_2011_Feb152011-02-27 09:04:34.224655LATimes_2011_Feb15 Back to MainPage. Back to Crosswords LA Times 2011, Feb 15 A few tricky clues. ALAR: Old apple spray Alar was a chemical used to ripen apples for longer before they fell off their tree. ELIOT: "The Naming of the Cats" poet T.S. Eliot View Larger Map LUZON: Largest of the Philippines OSHEA: Milo of Ulysses In the 1967 f...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Crosswordshttp://www.juicydata.com/Crosswords2011-02-27 09:20:49.147454Crosswords Back to MainPage. Links to notes taken whilst solving crosswords. Inkwell XWord Feb 24, 2011 - "Drinking on a Starry Night" Brendan Emmet Quigley Crossword #309 2011 Feb 24 LA Times, Wed 2011 Feb 23 LA Times Monday, Feb 21, 2011 LATimes crossword, 2011 Feb 18th LA times, Feb 17th, 2011 LA Times, Tue 2011 Feb 15th LA times crossword, F...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/LaTimes_2011_Feb23http://www.juicydata.com/LaTimes_2011_Feb232011-02-27 08:38:56.333090LaTimes_2011_Feb23 Back to MainPage. Back to Crosswords. LA Times, Wed 2011 Feb 23 PATSYCLINE: Country singer with the 1961 hit "Crazy" Died at age 30, in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. MCCRAE: Joel who was the first actor to portray Dr. Kildare Dr. Kildare was a ficitonal character in a series of films in the 1930s and '40s, on radio in...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Inkwell_Feb24_2011http://www.juicydata.com/Inkwell_Feb24_20112011-02-26 09:11:47.076460Inkwell_Feb24_2011 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Inkwell XWord Feb 24, 2011 - "Drinking on a Starry Night"Not a bad theme, a bit tricky.Notable clues:SARS: WHO concern of several years agoSKELTER: Half of a Beatles songAMOK: Wild As in run wild. Took me a while to make the connection here :).ONEUPS: Beats in H.O.R.S.E., say FunONNA: "...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/LinkingMfcAndBoostThreadhttp://www.juicydata.com/LinkingMfcAndBoostThread2011-02-28 03:47:47.968604Linking Boost and MFC Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. Linking against Boost can sometimes be tricky, as a minor misconfiguration in your project / makefiles can cause the auto-link mechanism to operate differently than you expect. Here's one example of a failure during link: libboost_thread-vc80-mt-1_40.lib(tss_pe.obj) : error LNK2005: __p...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/BeqCrossword309_2011Feb24http://www.juicydata.com/BeqCrossword309_2011Feb242011-02-26 06:31:39.430331Brendan Emmet Quigley Crossword #309 2011 Feb 24 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Fun to solve. I enjoyed the theme. AVIS: Dollar competitionBALE: 2011 Best Supporting Actor nomineeJIBE: Agree e.g. The report doesn't jibe with other observations.AJA: Steely Dan album whose title is a homophone of a continent Steely Dan are a jazz/rock...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc06http://www.juicydata.com/Misc062011-02-18 15:37:03.132743LA times crossword, Feb 17th 2011 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. LA Times, Feb 17th, 2011FIENNES: He plays Lord Voldemort in Harry potter filmsRANI: Rajah's wife I think this is equivalent to QueenDINA: Merrill in movies Born 1925. "Desk Set", "The Sundowners", "Catch me if you can", etc..PUE: Little, in LilleBAM: Bit of Lagasse l...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc05http://www.juicydata.com/Misc052011-02-13 14:52:23.131608LATimes crossword notes Feb 8th 2001 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. LATimes crossword Tuesday Feb 8th 2011. MASTHEAD: Newspapers' staff lists The name of a newspaper or magazine printed at the top of the front page. or A section of info in a publication that gives the name, it's offices, copies printed etc.OTIS: Bluesman Redding ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc04http://www.juicydata.com/Misc042011-02-13 13:57:57.232994LA Times notes 2011, Feb 7th Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. LA Times notes, 2011, Feb 7th. JEFF: Bezos of Amazon Founder, president, CEO of AmazonSDS: '60s militant gp Students for a Democratic Society 1962-1969TAPPAN: New Yok's Tappan Zee Bridge Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, over the Hudson river. Tappan = ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc03http://www.juicydata.com/Misc032011-02-13 13:19:12.911834New York Times crossword notes, Aug 11th, 2008. Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. New York Times crossword notes, Aug 11th, 2008. GABE: Comic Kaplan Born 1945. Stand up comedian, poker player and commentator Welcome back, Kotter.ATRA: Gillette razor, with pivoting head.YEN: CravingOUTRE: Bizarre. Outlandish or extravagant. Frome the f...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc02http://www.juicydata.com/Misc022011-02-13 08:02:16.926519New York Times crossword 2006 August 7th Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff.XER: Generation Xer is a thirtysomething these days.COE: Cedar Rapids collegeSELMA: Alabama march city. Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches at the height of the american civil rights movement. March 7, 9 and 21. Only the third made it all the way, the others...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc07http://www.juicydata.com/Misc072011-02-20 02:15:44.003879LA Times crossword, 2011 Feb 18 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff.LATimes crossword, 2011 Feb 18th.GENOA: Paganini's birthplace Genoa is in the Northwest of italy. Main tourist attractions include St Lawrence Cathedral and Piazza De Ferrari. It is home to around 600,000 Genovesi. View Larger Map ALTOS: Los ___: city near San Jose A c...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Misc01http://www.juicydata.com/Misc012011-02-13 06:58:33.907639Misc01 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Notes from the crossword: NYT August 04 IWOJIMA: 1945 battle site with a flag-raising HONORER: One offering kudos JOE: Quarterback Namath Joe Namath: "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie". Retired 1977. Majority of his career with the New York Jets. AMELIA: Amelia Erhart First aviatrix flying solo acr...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/windbg-debug-32-bit-process-on-64-bit-windowshttp://www.juicydata.com/windbg-debug-32-bit-process-on-64-bit-windows2010-11-16 03:45:06.869166WinDbg - Debugging 32-bit Processes on 64-bit Windows Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. If you attach a debugger, or are analyzing a dump from, a 32-bit process running on a 64-bit platform, you might see stacks ending in the dlls wow64cpu / wow64, instead of in your application, or your more familiar OS calls. In WinDbg, you can swap the 'mode...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/get-serial-number-in-command-shellhttp://www.juicydata.com/get-serial-number-in-command-shell2010-11-15 04:49:23.452300Serial number retrieval in DOS or cmd.exe - WMIC Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Short answer: wmic bios get serialnumber Long answer: You can interact with Windows Management Instrumentation from the command line, using the 'wmic' tool. This provides get and set syntax for many system configuration items and counters. Note that WMI nam...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Non-editable-CComboBox-and-CComboBox-styleshttp://www.juicydata.com/Non-editable-CComboBox-and-CComboBox-styles2010-11-10 06:05:50.729775Non-editable CComboBox and CComboBox styles Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. Three distinct styles can be applied (mutual-exclusively) to CComboBox: CBS_SIMPLE CBS_DROPDOWN CBS_DROPDOWNLIST Simple is an always-expanded list, and is editable. Dropdown is also editable, but rolls up and down, expanding vertically on request. Dropdown-li...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/CatchHangingProcessSnapshothttp://www.juicydata.com/CatchHangingProcessSnapshot2010-11-20 13:00:33.703737Catch Hanging Process Snapshot Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. When a process appears to be hanging, the best way to debug it is to attach a debugger (WinDbg in Windows by preference), find the busy or blocked threads (use !runaway, and ~*kv). Then, through inference in the case of deadlocks or an app waiting on handle, or by stepping through...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/WinDbg%20as%20the%20default%20debuggerhttp://www.juicydata.com/WinDbg%20as%20the%20default%20debugger2010-04-30 05:25:18.915270WinDbg as the default debugger Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. WinDbg (from Debugging Tools for Windows, from Microsoft), can be installed as the default postmortem debugger by simply running: C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools For Windows> WinDbg -I On a 32 bit Windows XP machine, this affects the following registry changes: [HKEY_LOCAL_M...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Mouse%20gets%20stuck%20in%20VirtualBoxhttp://www.juicydata.com/Mouse%20gets%20stuck%20in%20VirtualBox2010-04-25 01:49:43.776794Mouse gets stuck in VirtualBox Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. Virtualization is really convenient these days, thanks to much tireless work on both the software and hardware fronts. No more messing around with arcane drivers or deep magic, everything mostly just works. Now I can have my cake and eat it: I can run Linux all the time, and run a virt...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MapCapsLockToCtrlhttp://www.juicydata.com/MapCapsLockToCtrl2010-04-22 03:01:55.581798Map Caps-Lock To Ctrl Back to ProgrammingStuff. Back to MainPage. When operating a modern computing appliance, if one wishes to avoid persistently breaking stride to reach for a mouse, in order to coax an arrow towards a desirable state changing location, one finds oneself using the Ctrl (Control, bottom left of keyboard) key regularly. Whilst operating ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/BigLongWordshttp://www.juicydata.com/BigLongWords2010-05-04 07:47:02.117666BigLongWords Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Here's a bunch of words that I've stumbled across and taken a liking to: Bailiwick - a fun term indicating a territory of a bailiff, or a specific area of skill, interest or authority of a person. Used often by Frank Key in the Hooting Yard ResonanceFM radio show and podcast and blog. Cornuco...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Correct%20Styles%20for%20Property%20Sheetshttp://www.juicydata.com/Correct%20Styles%20for%20Property%20Sheets2010-04-21 02:54:59.021602Correct Styles for Property Sheets - avoiding the first-chance exception Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. When writing Property Sheets (CPropertySheet), make sure only the following window styles are specified: DS_CONTROL | DS_3DLOOK | WS_TABSTOP | WS_CHILD | DS_SHELLFONT Also, remove any FONT line from the resource specification. In my ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Quoteshttp://www.juicydata.com/Quotes2010-04-15 00:26:36.195762Quotes Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Some popular soundbytes from the past, far and recent, from scholars, great thinkers, figures of importance and pop-culture. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics." Uncertain origin, attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (British PM, literary writer, (1804 - 1881) and brought to America and re-popularised by Mar...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/PropertySheet%20DoModal%20caveat%20CPropertySheethttp://www.juicydata.com/PropertySheet%20DoModal%20caveat%20CPropertySheet2010-04-09 06:29:26.573810PropertySheet DoModal caveat Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. A little MFC tip this afternoon. This applies to CPropertySheet, and CPropertyPages. Say you've got a property page CMyPage : CPropertyPage, and you want to display it. Easy, of course. Just wrap a default CPropertySheet around it (and any other pages you want to display), and ca...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Chinese%20Gardenshttp://www.juicydata.com/Chinese%20Gardens2010-04-04 05:27:52.956144Chinese Gardens Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. In the west of Singapore, between Jurong and Joo Koon, is a pair of immaculately manicured ornamental parks. These are the Chinese Garden and Japanese Garden, also known as Jurong Gardens. The gardens were designed by the noted Taiwanese architect Professor Yuen-chen Yu and were completed in 1...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/ZeeAvihttp://www.juicydata.com/ZeeAvi2010-04-10 02:53:22.469970Zee Avi - a beautiful voice Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Listen to Zee Avi's NPR Tiny Desk Concert. A cosy performance of three of her favourite songs. Zee Avi hails from Malaysia originally, and in a minor magnificence of the internet, was discovered through you-tube. She was brave, confident and gumptioned enough to make some nice re...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MultipleJavaVersionsInWindowshttp://www.juicydata.com/MultipleJavaVersionsInWindows2010-03-25 03:44:44.455123Multiple Java Versions In Windows Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. Here's a neat trick for managing multiple installed Javas (JREs or JDKs) on Windows. In your system PATH, use: %JAVA_HOME%\bin Instead of a hardcoded version like PATH=C:\Java\j2re1.4.2_19\bin;OtherPaths. Then, when you want to switch to a different version, just update ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Cannot%20start%20Performance%20Logs%20-%20Solvedhttp://www.juicydata.com/Cannot%20start%20Performance%20Logs%20-%20Solved2010-03-24 08:31:06.026040Cannot start Performance Logs Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Today I was setting up some performance counters, to help debug a strange multi-system problem, and hit a minor cascade of problems. Perfmon's counter setups informed me that it couldn't save my counters, as the associated service couldn't be started. I opened services.msc and f...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/WindowsDebugSymbolshttp://www.juicydata.com/WindowsDebugSymbols2010-02-25 02:46:56.913394Windows Debug Symbols Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. .pdb files for much of Windows are available publically. They're necessary for debugging many problems you'll encounter in windows development. The SymbolStore path is: SRV*DownstreamStore*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Replace Downstream store with the local of your local c...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/AudioBoostInMplayerhttp://www.juicydata.com/AudioBoostInMplayer2009-11-15 03:44:20.333058Audio Boost in mplayer Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. I watch technical lectures from various sources, and often they have very quiet sound. mplayer can boost the volume through software amplification, using one of two methods. Note that if the input was recorded too softly, distortion when using software amplification at high gain is hard to avo...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/NumberOfLoopbackDeviceshttp://www.juicydata.com/NumberOfLoopbackDevices2009-11-15 03:12:33.513478Number of Loop Devices Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. In Debian, the default number of loop devices (/dev/loop#) is limited to 8. i.e. you'll see /dev/loop0 through /dev/loop7, and no more, if you "ls /dev |grep loop". You might need more, for any number of reasons. Loop devices are commonly used for mounting files as devices, e.g. mounting disk...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Cloud%20based%20storage%20rundownhttp://www.juicydata.com/Cloud%20based%20storage%20rundown2009-09-13 02:26:20.603087Cloud based storage rundown Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. This Gizmodo article (How to back up all your stuff for free) has a good list of the major providers of storage on the net. Using this space as a free backup is a great idea, but when you start seeding the clouds with your data, you should consider: Will this service be around n...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/FoodStuffhttp://www.juicydata.com/FoodStuff2009-09-13 01:53:50.691060FoodStuff Back to MainPage. Food is yummy. Eat it. Fun MethodsForPreservingHerbs includes freezing in ice cube trays, ready to drop into a pot, anytime. Back to MainPage.daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MethodsForPreservingHerbshttp://www.juicydata.com/MethodsForPreservingHerbs2009-09-13 02:00:18.648000Fun Methods for Preserving Herbs Back to MainPage. Back to FoodStuff. I'd be very happy if my herb garden looked like this ("secret summer herb garden", by woodleywonderworks, on Flickr), but unfortunately I've just got a few pots of basil, dill and coriander. I always forget about them when I'm in the kitchen, and they end up wasted after a few weeks o...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Identify%20VS2005%20SP1http://www.juicydata.com/Identify%20VS2005%20SP12009-09-24 05:21:00.464186Identify VS2005 SP1 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. I use Visual Studio 2005, Service Pack 1, and occasionally we'll run into small problems due to not everyone using the same compiler. The most innocuous result is different warnings / errors when compiling, and the worst is generally hard-to-reproduce crashes. Here are the build numbers f...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MIT%20architecture%20gets%20Rickrolledhttp://www.juicydata.com/MIT%20architecture%20gets%20Rickrolled2009-09-13 14:49:04.383699MIT architecture gets Rick-rolled Back to MainPage. Back to FunStuff. MIT students turning up for school last Wednesday morning were greeted with a giant real-world rick-roll. See "The Tech, online edition" (following photo from the article). The notes you see on the "great dome" below (I believe it's covered for repairs; the dome is now a cylinder) spo...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/ISS%20films%20Sarychev%20Peak%20volcanic%20eruptionhttp://www.juicydata.com/ISS%20films%20Sarychev%20Peak%20volcanic%20eruption2009-09-12 04:14:23.789867ISS films Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Here's a video taken by the astronauts on the ISS, as they passed over Russia's Kuril Islands on 12th June, 2009. They caught Sarychev Peak, on Matua Island as it was erupting. The hole in the clouds seems to have been neatly carved by a shockwave. This detailed a...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Fighting%20Dirty%20in%20Scrabblehttp://www.juicydata.com/Fighting%20Dirty%20in%20Scrabble2009-09-12 02:23:47.298392Fighting Dirty in Scrabble Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. In this "Ignite" (5 min quick-fire presentation), Mehal Shah talks with energy about winning at Scrabble, how to psyche out your opponent and the fun of bluffing. Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff.daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Vishal%20Vaid%20at%20TEDhttp://www.juicydata.com/Vishal%20Vaid%20at%20TED2009-09-12 01:08:16.126664Vishal Vaid at TED Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Watch this engaing modern Indian musical work by Vishal Vaid and his troupe. It's got elements of traditional and modern, eastern and western. I can feel some Jim Morrison wanting to Break on through in the bass-lines. And Vishal's vocals don't fail for a moment to blend, uplift and enhan...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/How%20to%20get%20the%20UUID%20Of%20Devices%20in%20Ubuntu%20Linuxhttp://www.juicydata.com/How%20to%20get%20the%20UUID%20Of%20Devices%20in%20Ubuntu%20Linux2009-09-05 04:37:22.714082How to get the UUID Of Devices in Ubuntu Linux Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. Quick UUID Intro The Universally Unique IDentifier UUID of a device can be used to pinpoint devices, regardless of their mount-points. You'll see the UUID referenced in the /etc/fstab file of most modern Linux distrubutions. For example, part of my fstab looks like: ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Ubuntu%20Flickering%20in%20Alt-Tabhttp://www.juicydata.com/Ubuntu%20Flickering%20in%20Alt-Tab2009-08-16 02:01:18.664038Ubuntu Flickering in Alt-Tab Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. When using Alt-Tab to switch between tasks on my Ubuntu box, I occaisonally encounter a horrible flicker. This flicker very visibly alternates a fullscreen window between it's content and a black screen. Occasionally this would hang my PC, prompting a reboot. Othertimes it would seem to ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/View%20CHM%20in%20Ubuntuhttp://www.juicydata.com/View%20CHM%20in%20Ubuntu2009-10-23 00:13:32.622320View CHM in Ubuntu Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. Note that this applies to the Debian Linux distro as well. Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format. It was first introduced with the release of Windows 98, and is stil...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Cute%20Becks%20Puppyhttp://www.juicydata.com/Cute%20Becks%20Puppy2009-08-06 11:42:50.070874Cute Becks Puppy Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. This puppy has his priorites right. And cutely so. Go cute puppy, go! Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff.daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Rice%20Paddy%20Artworkhttp://www.juicydata.com/Rice%20Paddy%20Artwork2009-08-06 11:28:31.104934Rice Paddy Artwork Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Japanese rice-farmers are getting artistic. Since the early 90s, some Japanese rice farmers have been experimenting with planting differently coloured rice in patterns to attract tourists, astound friends and relieve boredom. They construct their pattern / planting plan using software, exe...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Conditional%20breakpoints%20in%20WinDBGhttp://www.juicydata.com/Conditional%20breakpoints%20in%20WinDBG2009-12-29 03:20:22.145747Conditional breakpoints in WinDBG Back to MainPage. Back to ProgrammingStuff. I use conditional breakpoints in WinDBG just often enough that I forget the syntax. Here's how I set a conditional breakpoint: bp 0x12345678 ".if @@c++( pPasture->countSheep > 16 ) {} .else { gc } " What does this mean? It means that the debugger will evaluate my condi...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/ADayOfDeadEndshttp://www.juicydata.com/ADayOfDeadEnds2009-07-21 03:22:11.339845A Day of Dead Ends Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. This morning I was fraught with frustration, foiled in all my forays. Indeed, it was shaping up to be a day of dead ends. Some days are fluid and feel free. Others flow languidly, snaking ever onwards towards sunset. But not today. Today would be littered with enough minor obstacles to ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/ElectroshockTherapyForInternetAddictionhttp://www.juicydata.com/ElectroshockTherapyForInternetAddiction2009-07-16 00:51:05.818649Electroshock Therapy for Internet Addiction Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. You better get your's fast, because it's running out. China is banning the cure-all brain-rebooting wonder-therapy that is electroshock being used to treat Internet addiction. Apparently the treatment wasn't 100% effective, as some patients used the Internet to com...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/AndroidNetbookFromAsushttp://www.juicydata.com/AndroidNetbookFromAsus2009-06-03 07:39:05.106737Android Netbook From Asus Back to MainPage. The newest incarnation of the pioneering Eee PC range of netbooks from Asus may be Android powered. According to Darius Chang on the asia.cnet.com's "Crave" blog, Asus was demonstrating an Eee PC running Android, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, at the Computex tradeshow in Taiwan. Earlier this year, s...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/WorldInformationSocietyDay2009http://www.juicydata.com/WorldInformationSocietyDay20092009-05-18 00:55:52.659096World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2009 Back to MainPage. Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Yesterday (May 17th, 2009) marked this year's World Information Society Day. The main objective of the day is to raise global awareness of societal changes brought about by the Internet and new technologies. The theme of WISD2009 was: "Protecting childr...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Roast%20Vegetable%20Sandwichhttp://www.juicydata.com/Roast%20Vegetable%20Sandwich2009-05-27 00:50:09.014290Roast Vegetable Sandwich Back to MainPage, Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Earlier this week, I was on the verge of casting away an aubergine that had lost it's firm tactility. I was dissuaded (coerced?) by my wife to save it, to roast it. Tonight was the night. On the way home I picked up an onion, a cheap pumpkin-half and some carrots. I started the eggp...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/WinstonChurchillsSpeechesOnlinehttp://www.juicydata.com/WinstonChurchillsSpeechesOnline2009-05-06 14:09:17.838306Sir Winston Churchill's Speeches Online Back to MainPage, back to MiscellaneousStuff 105 of Winston Churchill's speeches and radio broadcasts have been archived, and are in the public domain, at http://www.archive.org/details/Winston_Churchill. Archive.org (The Internet Archive) has a widget so you can listen online, but it also provides links to the audi...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/CppNamespaceAliashttp://www.juicydata.com/CppNamespaceAlias2009-05-02 04:04:11.864418C++: Alias namespaces to reduce code clutter Back to MainPage, back to ProgrammingStuff When using boost, or other big libraries that use namespaces to logically organize themselves, you can quickly find yourself staring at a page awash with namespace specifiers, rather than the core algorithms and ideas you're focusing on. One solution is to issue a numb...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MplayerSubtitleSizehttp://www.juicydata.com/MplayerSubtitleSize2009-04-11 02:43:30.366971mplayer Subtitle Size Back to LinuxStuff. Back to MainPage. The default subtitle font size was too large for my liking. To try out different sizes, try: mplayer -subtitle-text-scale 3 -sub movie.srt movie.avi Increase or decrease the value 3 until you're happy with the result. Save this in your mplayer's default configuration by adding the followi...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/7zipForUbuntuhttp://www.juicydata.com/7zipForUbuntu2009-04-06 01:07:59.2193077zip For Ubuntu Back to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. 7zip is made available in Ubuntu through the p7zip-full package. To install: sudo apt-get install p7zip-full You might want to grab p7zip-rar as well, to enable this linux port of 7z to work with rar compressed files. The command line usage of 7z is quite similar to other compression tools. To...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/RichardPyleExploresReefCliffshttp://www.juicydata.com/RichardPyleExploresReefCliffs2009-02-28 10:17:17.826315Richard Pyle explores reef cliffs Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Back to MainPage. In his TED2009 talk, Richard Pyle talks about the relatively unexplored reef cliffs, between around 200ft (60m) and 500ft (150m) feet below the ocean's surface. Using a modified custom closed-circuit rebreathing setup, his team has started to explore this region, and has ident...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/OmgMangroomerBackHairShaverhttp://www.juicydata.com/OmgMangroomerBackHairShaver2009-02-28 02:59:00.214537Mangroomer Electric Back-Hair Shaver Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Back to MainPage. While searching for a manly beard Trimmer on Amazon, I came across the Mangroomer Electric Back Hair Shaver. Now that's a niche I never thought I'd see filled. Well done Mangroomer Enterprises LLC. Featuring a telescoping handle, the Mangroomer claims that one's ante...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MapCapsLockToEscapehttp://www.juicydata.com/MapCapsLockToEscape2010-04-22 07:57:36.257138How to map the Caps Lock key to Escape Back to ProgrammingStuff. Back to MainPage. I very rarely use Caps Lock, yet I'm reaching for Escape hundreds of times per day. Alas, this is the lot of a vim user. By remapping Caps Lock to Escape, I can switch modes in vim without leaving the home keys. Here's how. In Linux, add these lines to ~/.Xmodmap (crea...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/CallToPracticalWisdomByBarrySchwartzhttp://www.juicydata.com/CallToPracticalWisdomByBarrySchwartz2009-02-28 02:51:53.306056A Call to Build and Practice Wisdom, Barry Schwartz Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Back to MainPage. In his 2009 TED talk (http://ted.org/), Barry speaks powerfully for developing wisdom and for publicly appreciating moral and ethical heroes. He suggests that we should strive towards becoming moral exemplars. He reminds us that practical wisdom is the virt...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MplayerSlowToInithttp://www.juicydata.com/MplayerSlowToInit2009-03-01 02:57:13.968226mplayer is slow to startup Back to LinuxStuff. Back to MainPage. [Solved] mplayer version 1.0rc2-4.3.2 has trouble disabling the screensaver in my configuration. This led to a 5-10 second pause before playback started. I'm running 64bit Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex. The first solution is to disable this feature (to disable screensaver disabling). Add this to...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/DaemonTheBookhttp://www.juicydata.com/DaemonTheBook2009-02-28 02:53:02.669447Daemon Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Back to MainPage. Daniel Suarez talks about his book 'Daemon' with Googleians. I enjoy seeing ex-coders and tech workers succeeding in their alternate career paths, Daniel Suarez is no exception. He was a systems consultant, before publishing Daemon. Now he's working on the sequel. This presentation would mean more i...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/BornDigitalGoogleDcTalkshttp://www.juicydata.com/BornDigitalGoogleDcTalks2009-02-28 02:53:44.749082Born Digital - Google D.C. Talks Back to MiscellaneousStuff. Back to MainPage. "Born Digital" is a book by Professor John Palfrey written for parents and teachers of kids growing in the internet age. It talks about people born after 1980, people who have never used a rotary-dial telephone. The panel discusses how the current generation of kids are using...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/09Feb_MySQLLecturesOnGoogleVideoshttp://www.juicydata.com/09Feb_MySQLLecturesOnGoogleVideos2009-02-13 07:42:14.960793MySQL Lectures On Google VideosBack to ProgrammingStuff, Back to MainPage. These three lectures on MySQL are interesting and useful:An Overview of the MySQL Engine and its Latest Features: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6510132373772175248&hl=enPerformance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2524524540025172...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/TeachingKidsToMakehttp://www.juicydata.com/TeachingKidsToMake2009-02-28 02:57:42.659783Teaching Kids To Make Back to MainPage, MiscellaneousStuff. In his TED2009 talk, and in a comic-style illustrated piece entitled 'Tinkering School', Gever Tulley shares his work teaching kids through hands-on design and implementation, using power-tools under supervision to build their ideas. Link: http://www.tinkeringschool.com/blog/2009/ted-2009/ Power...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/09Feb_CollidingSatelliteshttp://www.juicydata.com/09Feb_CollidingSatellites2009-02-12 09:06:21.318128Colliding SatellitesBack to MiscellaneousStuff, back to MainPage. Someone earlier today remarked to me that you shouldn't worry about the sky falling on our heads. How wrong they were. A satellite owned and operated by Iridium Satellite LLC (used for global communications) and an allegedly defunct 16yr old Russian (probably ex-military) satellite collided,...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Draftshttp://www.juicydata.com/Drafts2009-11-20 04:06:02.729510Drafts Nothing to see here. Hoop dreams King of Kong (Fistful of Quarters) Deep Water LTE webinars: http://business.motorola.com/Webinars/Long_Term_Evolution/LTE-Webinar/index.htm ATIS: http://www.atis.org/infosync.shtml Agilent: http://www.techonline.com/learning/webinar/201801263 http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/wcIndex.cgi?sessio...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/AuditoriumTheGamehttp://www.juicydata.com/AuditoriumTheGame2009-03-01 02:54:47.662107Auditorium Back to MainPage. Back to FunStuff. You can play the preview of Auditorium at: http://playauditorium.com/. Auditorium is a fun new game from Cipher Prime, created by Dain Saint and William Stallwood. Around 15 levels are available to play in the preview. Auditorium is pleasing aurally and visually. To advance through levels, you need to fill ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MiscellaneousStuffhttp://www.juicydata.com/MiscellaneousStuff2011-02-26 09:12:28.150042Miscellaneous Stuff Back to MainPage. Inkwell XWord Feb 24, 2011 - "Drinking on a Starry Night" Brendan Emmet Quigley Crossword #309 2011 Feb 24 LATimes crossword, 2011 Feb 18th LA times, Feb 17th, 2011 LA times crossword, Feb 8th, 2011 LA Times notes, 2011, Feb 7th, 2011 New York Times crossword notes, Aug 11th, 2008 Notes from the NYT crossword ...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/LinuxStuffhttp://www.juicydata.com/LinuxStuff2010-04-25 01:51:47.471658Linux Stuff Back to MainPage. Every now and then I encounter minor problems with my Linux system. When I think the problem may be generic, I'll post the problem and solution to help others. I'll may also write about Linux applications, and relay interesting Open Source news. Mouse gets stuck in VirtualBox - Solution to your mouse cursor bumping into a...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Homehttp://www.juicydata.com/Home2009-01-25 07:23:35.055438daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/UsefulLinkshttp://www.juicydata.com/UsefulLinks2009-01-28 04:50:36.627331Useful LinksBack to MainPage. Programming links C++ STL http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/ Debugging WinDBG WinDbg A-ZWindows Debuggers: Part 1: A WinDbg Tutorial Tools Filezilla server download: here. Client here. Putty ssh for windows: here Launchy (program launcher): here. WinDirStat: here. Games Auditorium: here. Media links Films AFI's 100 Ye...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/FunStuffhttp://www.juicydata.com/FunStuff2009-09-13 14:48:12.606825FunStuff Back to MainPage. MIT reiifies rickrolling. Students prank their peers, rick rolling all who gaze upon the great dome. Watch Mehal Shah talk about Fighting Dirty in Scrabble, in a 5 min "Ignite" talk. I previously intended to write game, book, music and movie reviews. That hasn't happened so far. But I won't naysay the future. That is to sa...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/FoodStuffshttp://www.juicydata.com/FoodStuffs2009-09-13 01:54:58.566160Food Stuffs Back to MainPage. See also FoodStuff. Fun MethodsForPreservingHerbs includes freezing in ice cube trays, ready to drop into a pot, anytime. Back to MainPage.daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/ProgrammingStuffhttp://www.juicydata.com/ProgrammingStuff2011-03-04 02:33:57.846264Programming Stuff Back to MainPage. BuildOpenSSLForWindowsWithDebugSymbols - Step by step instructions on producing .pdbs along with the OpenSSL binaries. LinkingMfcAndBoostThread - Discusses some problems and resolutions encountered and found when using the great Boost C++ libraries. Debugging 32-bit processes on 64-bit Windows - Using a function from...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/Ubuntu8.10NotSavingStaticIpSettingshttp://www.juicydata.com/Ubuntu8.10NotSavingStaticIpSettings2009-01-27 05:44:57.464070Ubuntu 8.10 Not Saving Static Ip SettingsBack to MainPage. Back to LinuxStuff. As I've got a small home network, with statically configured port-forwarding settings, I find it convenient to use a static IP address for my desktop.Unfortunately, everytime I reboot, my network settings are forgotten, and the default, DHCP driven automatic network configuration...daily0.8http://www.juicydata.com/MainPagehttp://www.juicydata.com/MainPage2011-03-04 02:34:11.478557Juicy Data Newest notes in JuicyData: BuildOpenSSLForWindowsWithDebugSymbols - Step by step instructions on producing .pdbs along with the OpenSSL binaries. LinkingMfcAndBoostThread - Discusses some problems and resolutions encountered and found when using the great Boost C++ libraries. 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