Last Saturday, I got up early and decided to whip up something quick yet useful. Roughly two hours later, I had released the first version of “Kanji”. “Kanji” is a simple tool for reviewing Japanese characters or words. It reads in a UTF-8 encoded file and displays the entries within at random, showing a new [...]
I’ve been wanting to use xargs for a practical application for some time. I’ve read many articles that have mentioned it, but it was Ted Dziuba’s Taco Bell Programming which was the tipping point. Here’s the situation: I want to convert my FLAC collection to an MP3 collection so that I can upload my CD [...]
This article consists of notes I’ve written while attempting to get the official nvidia drivers to work on Debian Squeeze with a backported kernel. For the record, on my system I am using kernel version 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64.
This is the first document in what may become a series of docs on cross-platform development using pure C (not C++) along with commonly available libraries. A brief aside about my background for newcomers: I’m experienced with Python and C++ (although admittedly rusty in the latter), and I’ve written straight C as well (in college, [...]
Well, another year has come around, and with it, the New Year’s holiday here in Japan. Just got to enjoy a full week off of work, of which I’ve mostly spent just to unwind. I was planning to do development during this time, but it didn’t really happen – ran into problems with gettextize and [...]