Posted in General, Linux, Technology on August 30th, 2004 No Comments »
D-BUS is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.
I was looking for a better way of doing inter-process communication (IPC) and I stopped to take a look at D-BUS. After playing with it for a few days and seeing it in action via beagle, I decided it […]
Posted in General on August 17th, 2004 1 Comment »
I finally got around to patching the orinoco wireless driver on my laptop, so I threw in my spare Orinoco gold and fired up kismet for the drive home. The ~15 mile drive yielded some interesting results:
Total Networks: 264
Unique SSID: 156
No SSID: 29
Netgear: 9
Linksys: 36
Default: 19
Total Networks with WEP: 122
Total Networks without WEP: 142
% […]
Posted in General, Linux, Technology on August 13th, 2004 1 Comment »
I just spent the better part of a week tracking down bugs in Mono and a custom application of mine (which I’m porting to Mono). I was having a rough time with some code working against a secure server. After reading this, this, and this, it finally works.
Bottom line: If you’re working […]
Posted in General on August 9th, 2004 1 Comment »
I’ve been working on porting some of my code over to run under Mono and Linux. Yesterday, in the middle of a particularly scary class library, I started to encounter some strange behavior I hadn’t seen before. Cookies that should have been returning simply weren’t. After a little digging (and with the […]
Posted in General on August 8th, 2004 1 Comment »
I went looking for Jackson Harper’s original Visual Studio project converter, proj2make. I remember bugging him about it at one point long ago, and even sending in a little patch for it. It looks like it’s now been superseded by proj2make-sharp.
I’ve been recently converting some of my projects over to Mono. Writing […]
