Another 2 hours of developing on the application that will change the world of peer-to-peer sharing and the way we use the internet. From now on, you do not need to use a gazillion e-mails to send your photos, no more paying a middle man, just to transfer your wedding Lees verder
In one of my previous posts, I talked about writing a program to transfer huge files (like 10GB or so) from one computer on the internet to another. Without any third party. Now, I have version 0.2 finished. It is very rudimentary and might not work for you out of Lees verder
Making a GUI program for Linux has been a pain in the ass for a long time. When I create an app, I want to be busy with the threads I handle, the algorithms I implement and the protocols I invent (yes, I invent protocols, for whenever I need to Lees verder
Usually, upgrading Ubuntu is relatively painless. It downloads a zillion packages, installs them, asks a few inane questions to which you accept the default options and voilà, you have the new version. And, on my office desktop (yes, we use Ubuntu on desktops at work) it worked perfectly. Not so Lees verder
A friend of mine had a specific problem: he needed to transfer a big file (and with big I mean 10GB) from one side of the country to the other. Time to burn a DVD (in fact, split the file into 3 parts and burn 3 DVDs) and send it, Lees verder
Not really helpful hacks and smart solutions, but links to handy stuff. First, the Linux-Sigma GCC toolchain, for building your own C programs on the PCH. This guy also has builds for other operating systems on his blog. Using it is very easy, just unpack in /usr/local and you have Lees verder
Based on the code found at http://www.designsbyjonathan.com, I created a very simple plugin, that shows only one category on the front page. It is version 0.1, but it works. You will have to insert the numerical value of the category you want in the PHP. When adding a minus sign Lees verder
Well, after a few months, I sat down to start hacking a little on my Popcorn Hour. The Popcorn Hour Networked Media Tank (NMT) is a small media center. You can easily install a hard disk for all your media files, that you can play on your TV. It also Lees verder
Our laptop is making very annoying beeping noises (seem to be coming from the harddisk), and I thought updating the BIOS might fix it. So I ran to the Dell website to get a fresh BIOS. This is a .EXE file, that you have to run from a Windows or Lees verder
A lot of searches that lead to my blog lead to the article “Why does software suck?”. That article is written in Dutch, so not very understandable for most English speaking people that end up there. So, I decided to translate it. And this is the result. Why does software Lees verder