[08-07-2015]

NetCat 8.1 participation is now open!

Make sure to join it if you are the fan of NetBeans and you like to do some serious testing! NetCat 8.1


[29-06-2015]

R – adding group value into result of auto.arima

If you want to use arima with data that are divided into groups, you can do something like this. data


[11-06-2015]

And Now for Something Completely Different – Chemicals are releasing new album !! :)

BORN IN THE ECHOES


[21-05-2015]

Final proof that there is a “bigger half” :)

You know that “bigger half” thing. When you divide a cake and the other guy says, “I want that bigger half”. And you probably know that mathematicians freak out when they hear that. But, you know, there is a proof that there is actually a bigger half. If engineer says so, and it works, it […]


[03-05-2015]

Syntax theme and custom name of the first page

I was struggling, recently, with Syntax theme. This is super cool theme if you are focusing on writing. Simple, very plain, no fancy stuff around. Just text. There is, however, one thing I had to change. In the menu (you can find it on the left side of the page), first page is called “Home”. […]


[20-04-2015]

Cleaning Time Machine’s disk

If you get close to the capacity of Time Machine, you can easily solve that by: Note! You will work as root! You may destroy things! shell> su – shell> cd /Volumes/your_time_machine_disk/Backups.backupdb/machine_name # to find what you can delete just use command (make sure you get correct result) shell> find . -maxdepth 1 -type d […]


[18-04-2015]

Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers

Summary: Solid introduction to modern C++ On a day to day basis I work with C++ legacy code. No surprises, just classes and some overloaded operators. Nothing special. I have jumped into Effective Modern C++ as I wanted to know what’s really behind C++11 and C++14. And there’s a lot. I bet, after reading this […]


[07-04-2015]

Teaser № 3


[07-04-2015]

Logitech Performance MX – scroll speed (free scroll) inside OS X

If you plug Logitech Performance MX and enable free scroll option, you will notice that by default it is incredibly fast and speedy. You can alter these settings by: System Preferences -> Logitech Control Center -> Performance MX -> Configure -> Buttons -> Micro Gear Precision Scroll Wheel and choosing NOTE! If you use free […]


[07-04-2015]

Logitech Performance MX mouse – buggy tracking at low speed inside OS X

If you have experienced a buggy behavior of the Logitech Performance mouse inside OS X, do following. 1. Install most recent Logitech Device Manager (3.9.1) 2. In the device settings (Logitech Device Manager) set the Tracking Speed Multiplier like this 3. In Mouse preferences set tracking value like this It solved my issue with buggy […]


[08-03-2015]

Torchlight 2 is 80% off at Steam – don’t miss that!!


[02-02-2015]

Teaser № 2


[23-01-2015]

Teaser № 1


[11-01-2015]

Check whether OS X is in Dark/Light theme

Recently, I was forced to check whether application is in Dark/Light theme (status icon must be either white or black). I have found two solutions. First one boolean isDark = [NSAppearance currentAppearance] name] containsString: NSAppearanceNameVibrantDark] and second one boolean isDark = [[ [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey: “AppleInterfaceStyle”] isEqual: “Dark”] To my surprise, both can give different […]


[09-01-2015]

And Now for Something Completely Different – Type-R

If you are fan of Type-R, as I am, you will probably like this one :) https://www.hondatheotherside.com/


[07-01-2015]

And Now for Something Completely Different – Ann Cotten “Homology, Myself”

You probably know that feeling when you link randomly placed elements and, at some point, something unexpected emerge. This is exactly the case I had with Ann Cotten. So, it started with Gh+ broadcast by Grzegorz Hoffmann. At 8-th of December he was playing Mr. Oizo and some other stuff that was pretty cool. As […]


[19-12-2014]

rxvtimg.C error: ‘PictOpDifference’ was not declared in this scope

If you experience the issue with following error: rxvtimg.C: error: ‘PictOpDifference’ was not declared in this scope you can overcome it by commenting out following part in config.h /* Define to enable xrender support */ /* #undef XRENDER */ Update: Optionally, you can disable transparency by setting following settings in config.h /* Define if you […]


[18-12-2014]

#error Blitz is configured with –enable-threadsafe

#error Blitz is configured with –enable-threadsafe, but no compiler thread support is found. Did you forget, e.g., “–pthread”? This message might be quite confusing, as typically, you will blindly take “–pthread” and pass directly into g++. However, g++ have other option :) -pthread


[01-12-2014]

DDD – compilation fails: strclass.C: In function ‘std::istream& operator>>(std::istream&, string&)’: error: ‘EOF’ was not declared in this scope

If you have an issue while compiling DDD strclass.C: In function ‘std::istream& operator>>(std::istream&, string&)’: strclass.C:1546:35: error: ‘EOF’ was not declared in this scope Go, and thanks this guy http://garricksblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/mid-terms-and-build-errors.html. quote: “It turns out that the constant EOF was not probably declared by including stdio.h. So I went ahead and added that in: homer@homer-desktop:~/MyPrograms/ProgramSourceCode/ddd-3.3.12$ diff ddd/strclass.C […]


[29-11-2014]

Theme, you can fall in love with :)

Recently, while reading Getting started with tmux, I have read about really nice theme -“SOLARIZED”. You can find it here: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized There is a predefined profile for iTerm, so you are good to go straight after downloading it. Highly recomended.