Monthly Archives: April 2005

Pseudo-reflection

Posted on April 29, 2005 by Eric

I’ve implemented what I call “pseudo-reflection” in Nonpareil. Each processor architecture has a unique C structure defined which represents the architecturally visible register state of a simulated processor, and in order for general-purpose state save/restore and debugging access to be … Continue reading →

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Nonpareil state save using libxml2

Posted on April 28, 2005 by Eric

I’ve written a DTD for an XML Nonpareil state save file format, and code to read and write such files using libxml2. It was very easy. It’s not yet integrated into the main Nonpareil program, because it will need the … Continue reading →

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Finally, a DVD of Quark

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Eric

OK, so it’s not an official studio release, just a DVD someone has assembled from video cassette recordings, but it was still great to see it again after all these years. I watched the pilot episode this evening. I’m not … Continue reading →

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lcdtest is more popular than expected

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Eric

Judging by the Freshmeat stats, lcdtest is way more popular than I ever would have guessed. There must have been some unsatisfied demand for a test pattern generator. Perhaps I’ll build Windows and MacOS X binaries for it as well. … Continue reading →

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Learning to use libxml2

Posted on April 26, 2005 by Eric

Rather than developing another ugly little language to save and restore calculator state in Nonpareil, I decided that I’d try using xml, via the libxml2 library, which I’ve never used before. The last time I wrote any software to do … Continue reading →

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Disk drive failure

Posted on April 25, 2005 by Eric

A 200G drive in one of my RAID systems failed today. Since it was RAID 5, no data was lost. However, the original drive had an actual capacity of 203G, while new ones sold with the identical part number are … Continue reading →

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lcdtest 1.00 has new options and commands

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Eric

On a mailing list, someone pointed out a Windows lcd test program that was useful for adjusting the pixel clock frequency and phase of LCD monitors with analog VGA inputs (vs. DVI). It puts up alternating white and black vertical … Continue reading →

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Video card woes, continued

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Eric

I installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 in a spare partition to see if the supplied X server would solve the Radeon 9200 16-bit/24-bit problem. No dice. Ended up installing a Radeon 9550SE card instead, which works OK.

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New shoes

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Eric

I’m not sure that the Superfeet insoles are going to work out for me. I’ve always used cheaper arch support insoles in the past, and they’ve never caused me any trouble, but the new shoes with the Superfeet insoles are … Continue reading →

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Video card woes, DVI cables

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Eric

The refurb Sapphire Radeon 9200 card arrived yesterday. The card seems to work fine, as far as I can tell. Software is a different matter.

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