Random technical stuff

I've been looking fairly closely at the coordinate system of VCL.

Let me count the ways, in no particular order and in no way exhaustive: OutputDevice is the base class for printing, windowing and PDFs.

The OutputDevice class is what we use for rendering a whole host of different things, and other classes inherit from it to do their rendering.

For a long time now I have noticed that OutputDevice is a class that is tightly coupled to drawing primitives such a pixels, lines, rectangles, etc.

On the 9th February, unbeknownst to me, my wife accidentally typed in the wrong password several times into Netflix.

If you want to turn on verbose logging for Windows Update and the Microsoft Installer, then you could follow KB 2545723 - How to Enable Microsoft Installer logging and Verbose logging to gather additional troubleshooting Information... or if you are masoc…

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This isn't going to be very long really.

Here's a spot of non-sudo fun on OS X, figured out after reading the following Hacker News story from the OS X git security flaw update article written by the always amazing Rachel (which is in turn a follow up to this article).

Li Haoyi has written an excellent blog post entitled "Diving Into Other People's Code" about diving into an unfamilar codebase (HN discussion here).

The LibreOffice codebase is, to be frank, messy.

I have committed a code change to the LibreOffice tree to allow developers to specify what modules they want Doxygen to index.

Update: So this was discussed on IRC, and it turns out I've got this all entirely wrong.

A few days ago, I filed bug 96826 ("Typewriter attribute not given enough weight when finding font based on attributes") against LibreOffice.

Karabiner allows you to disable ctrl+left click on OS X.

I use OS X as my primary operating system, but still need to use Windows so I've installed Windows 8.1 as a VirtualBox Virtual Machine.

I've just joined the OSI as a member - in AUD it is about $50, but it's well worth it!

I have been looking at the VCL in LibreOffice, which is its cross-platform widget and window library.

After reviewing the component diagram on the LibreOffice wiki, the following will make the VCL module in LibreOffice: make sal salhelper store cppuhelper cppu xmlreader registry unoidl dtrans \ binaryurp dtrans animations jvmfwk jvmaccess javaunohelp…

I find it absurd that Google+ doesn't recognize certain names.

To run NUnit, you need to add the following to the NUnit.exe.config file: Under C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.5.9\bin\net-2.0\nunit.exe.config (replace version with whatever you have installed) add the following: <startup> <!

A note to the NSW government.

Sadly, my greatest claim to fame is that I invented the [citation needed] tag.

As it turns out, with a sufficiently dense input text, a Markov Chain generator is actually reasonably easy to implement.