I prefer a qwerty keyboard for programming, but to write in my native language (Dutch) I need sometimes accented characters like ë, ï, é, etc, which do not have dedicated keys on a qwerty layout.
A handy way under Linux is to use a "compose key" ([Alt Gr] on my setup), which allows you to compose accented characters by entering the accent (umlaut, accent grave, ...) and the unaccented character separately.
Sometimes, Subversion thinks that a PDF is a text file, instead of binary data. This can hurt during commits or diffs, because Subversion tries to do textual diffs with binary data.
Solution: you can explicitly flag the file as PDF data and Subversion will handle it as binary from then:
svn propset svn:mime-type application/pdf yourPDFfile.pdf
Reminder to self: how to set up a virtual host for localhost webdevelopment on OS X with MAMP
/etc/hosts, e.g.127.0.0.1 foo.localhost
and flush DNS cache with
dscacheutil -flushcache
/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf): add a virtual host entry like<VirtualHost *> ServerName foo.localhost DocumentRoot /Users/eddywally/Sites/foo/localhost-dev/drupal </VirtualHost>
and restart webserver, e.g. with
/Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2/bin/apachectl restart
http://foo.localhost:8888 (don't forget the nonstandard port number, unless you configured MAMP to use standard port 80).
en last but not least wil ik mijn vissen bedanken omdat ze rondzwemmen in mijn aquarium en dat maakt me blij als er een dood is moet ik wel wenen want dat is droevig
Yet another dull "numbers are so uncool" blog entry:
I just committed revision 2345 to my subversion repository. Yay.
Apart from having four consecutive digit, there's nothing special about 2345 actually.
In hexadecimal: 929, pfft
In binary: 100100101001, almost, but no sigar
Prime factorization: 5 x 7 x 67, boooring
bleh
Two days. Two days I'm working to find a bloody number. First I tried with brute force searching. But because that appeared not very feasible, I had to think of a more clever way to find it. Which I did. No brute force exhaustive search, just some matrix multiplication stuff.
And the number is 4212320.
Yay.
By the way: it's the number of unique binary patterns of 5 by 5 pixels, ignoring all copies due to rotations and reflections. Seems a very simple problem, but it was a very tough nut to crack.
It's possible to make Subversion ignore unversioned files, so they don't show up in the status overview and you get a better signal to noise ratio. The command line interface to add ignore rules this is however a bit clunky. First, you need to remember following command:
svn propedit svn:ignore .
(which can be quite confusing, especially with the slightly similar looking but different propset command).
Then you get a file editor where you have to add the rule (make sure you remembered the file name or pattern you want to ignore), save the file and exit the editor.
A bit too much hoops to jump through for something that could be just one command like svn-ignore filename.
I needed the LaTeX code for the sign that is called the "promille" sign in Dutch. It's the sign like the percent sign "%" ("procent" in Dutch), but with two circles at the bottom. Googling for "latex promille" was not very successful, so I thought this would be a good botsnack.
(Googling for "permille" or "(parts) per thousand", yield better results however.)
Anyway, I found two solutions:
\textperthousand from the package textcomp, also provides \textpertenthousand but both only work in text mode, not in math mode.\permil from the package wasysym, works in both text mode as in math mode.That's all folks
Yesterday I had to render a 3d animation for a colleague working on 3D television. He needed a short street-view video with depth map. Because there were some problems with some real world footage he wanted to use, he asked me to create an artificial video in Blender. After I created a simple scene with some models from www.katorlegaz.com, I wanted to render the whole animation overnight on one of the computers in our lab. I had some trouble with getting the command line arguments right and wanted to share this, in case someone else has the same problem.
I first tried
blender -b -a foo.blend
the option -b is for background mode, so I could log out from the computer after I started the job, the options -a is for (according to the command line help):render frames from start to end (inclusive), only works when used after -b I thought this was the bare minimum to get the job done. However, nothing happened but this:
Compiled with Python version 2.5. Checking for installed Python... got it! ERROR: No camera Blender quit
Huh, no camera? There was an active camera, the scene rendered just fine from the UI, I checked my file over and over and everything seemed all right.