Emulating IRIX on a PC
Once my ex-boss told me, as they started the company back in the ’90s they had to buy a computer, so they took a big bunch of credit and bought an SGI workstation. For that price you could buy a new car back then. As i started my career in 2009 the car industry almost finished the long process of adopting standard Wintel PC-s. I...
Haiku volume shortcuts
AFAIK almost all portable computers (eg. laptops) have volume and brightness control shortcuts, you can find the self-explaining symbols on your keyboard, mostly you have to use them with the Fn key together. The signals will be sent to the EC which will notify some methods in the ACPI tables. The problem is: the most OEM ACPI implementations are utterly garbage. It could be useful...
My porting toolset
This is a short blogpost about the tools and scripts what prooved to be useful during my porting work. Some could be handy for you too. The Silver Searcher Have you ever had to grep hundreds of Mb source code? Then you know how painfully slow it is. But the good news: it doesn’t have to be slow. I’d like to introduce “ag” to you,...
Team Center isn't a team player
Today my CATIA crashed as I tried to save my changes into TeamCenter (PDM). Nothing special, it is just a crashy program - i know it well - so i just opened a new instance, loaded my product, and as I went back to mess with my skeleton, I found something interresting. My skeleton (the base of every geometry) had a new icon what i...
Haiku Statistics
Some months ago I started to learn programming with Python, but i don’t really like the pre-made programming courses, so I thought I’ll be more motivated, if I try to solve a problem, what interesting for me. I slept some, and i came up with the following idea: there are some voices about the death of my favorite project what I’m following in the last...