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6GB of RAM in a MacBookPro4,1 | Francis Devereux
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January 11, 2009. 6GB of RAM in a MacBookPro4,1. 8212; frankoid @ 2:53 pm. I have recently been working with VMware Fusion VMs at the same time as running other memory-hungry apps such as IntelliJ IDEA and NeoOffice on my Early 2008 MacBook Pro 15″. Even with 4GB of RAM, the maximum officially supported, the machine would still start paging heavily from time to time. After reading this thread. And it’s working great. Here’s the obligatory System Profiler screenshot:. 10 Comments ». Hello, I have a questi...
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Copy SMSes from Nokia S60 phones to Android phones | Francis Devereux
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June 4, 2011. Copy SMSes from Nokia S60 phones to Android phones. 8212; Tags: android nokia sms. 8212; frankoid @ 8:59 pm. I’ve just written a Python utility to help me copy my SMSes from my N95 to my HTC Desire. I’ve uploaded it to github in case anyone else needs to migrate text messages from a Nokia phone to an Android-based one. Export your messages to CSV using Nokia PC Suite. Convert the CSV to XML using nokia2sbr.py. Copy the XML file to sdcard/SMSBackupRestore/ on your Android’s SD card. I’...
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Running Carbon Emacs.app 22.3 on Snow Leopard | Francis Devereux
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September 6, 2009. Running Carbon Emacs.app 22.3 on Snow Leopard. 8212; frankoid @ 8:09 pm. Here’s how to get the Carbon GUI version of Emacs 22.3 running on Snow Leopard. It won’t compile on Snow Leopard, so you need to compile it on Leopard. A mac running OS X 10.5.8 with Xcode 3.1.x installed. A mac running OS X 10.6.0 with Xcode 3.2 installed. The Emacs sources, emacs-22.3.tar.gz. On the 10.5.8 mac, extract the emacs sources and compile them:. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Build ...
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S60 Remote Control API Weirdness | Francis Devereux
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November 6, 2008. S60 Remote Control API Weirdness. Filed under: Software Development. 8212; frankoid @ 10:24 pm. I have been using Symbian OggPlay (a music player for mobile phones) for quite a while, first on a Nokia N70 and now on an N95. It doesn’t have support for the volume buttons on the N95, so I decided to add it. The N95 has a volume control on the side of the phone, and another one on the remote control in the headphone chord. I used the remote control API. Volume control on headphone remote.
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Data Recovery with ddrescue and the Freezer Trick | Francis Devereux
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October 29, 2008. Data Recovery with ddrescue and the Freezer Trick. 8212; frankoid @ 4:42 pm. Recently one of the hard drives in my Linux server failed. I did have a backup but it wasn’t as recent as I’d like and didn’t include some recent emails that I wanted to keep (it’s my main email machine – I did have copies of the emails on my laptop but merging them with the server backup would have been a bit tricky). So, I ran ddrescue and it managed to read most of my drive. I then froze the drive for ab...
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Hello world! | Francis Devereux
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April 17, 2008. 8212; frankoid @ 7:06 pm. After years of resistance / indifference I’ve finally got a blog. Can you guess why? It’s (hopefully) a pretty original reason… because my Mum told me to! So what am I going to be writing about? Probably mostly technology rants (sorry Mum! But I’ll also write some more personal posts; get in touch if you’d like to see them. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Installing gcc 3.3 on Mac OS X Leopard/Intel | Francis Devereux
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October 29, 2008. Installing gcc 3.3 on Mac OS X Leopard/Intel. 8212; frankoid @ 5:01 pm. In order to build applications that run on Mac OS versions prior to 10.3.9, you need to use gcc 3.3 (see this Apple documentation. Install Xcode 2.5, including the 10.3.9 SDK. Copy gcc3.3.pkg from the Packages/Packages directory in the Xcode Tools disk image to your desktop. Open the copy of gcc3.3.pkg (right click it and choose “Show Package Contents”). Open gcc3.3.pkg/Resources/VolumeCheck in a text editor.
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A Memory Management Idea | Francis Devereux
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May 21, 2008. A Memory Management Idea. Filed under: Operating Systems. 8212; frankoid @ 11:53 am. There is often a trade-off between speed and memory usage. For example, when a web browser loads a new page, it can do a number of things with the old page, including:. Nothing (throw it away). Cache the files that it downloaded from the server. Cache the fully rendered version of the page. Memory management is already a difficult problem, especially in a virtual memory environment; it is difficult for the ...
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Quick Recipe for Building Universal jsvc on OS X 10.5 | Francis Devereux
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February 15, 2010. Quick Recipe for Building Universal jsvc on OS X 10.5. 8212; frankoid @ 4:52 pm. Now that commons-daemon 1.0.2 has been released and included in MacPorts, an easier way of building a universal jsvc is to install MacPorts. Set universal archs to “i386 x86 64” in macports.conf and run “sudo port install commons-daemon universal”. First, get the latest commons-daemon code from svn (the 1.0.1 release won’t work – you need the fix for this. Arch -i386 jsvc jsvc args. Leave a Comment ».
