Month: January 2006

I hate #define macros

I'm working with some C code that is quite well-written but makes a lot of use of some fairly complicated #define macros. Macros are discouraged by the coding guidelines, but they are a necessary evil here. They could've been...

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Wheat and honey bread

Wheat and honey bread, originally uploaded by msabramo. I came home to find that Nicole had made homemade honey wheat bread in our breadmaker....

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Steering wheel stereo remote

Steering wheel stereo remote, originally uploaded by msabramo. I love this little gizmo which I have had for years. It's a remote that mounts on the steering column and controls my Sony car stereo. This is one of those things...

Linux

Fixing a jacked Control-C

I noticed Control-C had stopped working on my Linux box for killing foreground processes. I'm not sure how it happened but somehow my stty intr setting got set to Control-G. Here's how I diagnosed it and fixed it: $ stty speed...

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Traxxas Jato

A few years ago me and a few of my friends bought Nitro-powered RC cars, specifically the HPI Nitro RS4. They were great fun to build and race, even though most races ended with crashes resulting in trips to the hobby store or...

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Lojban

If you've already mastered Klingon and Esperanto and are looking for more weird spoken languages, check out Lojban (ËˆloÊ’ban). Lojban was invented by some cunning linguists to investigate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis while...

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Nice article on VTun

The VTun web site, in my opinion, does a poor job of explaining what VTun is for, but I think this article from Linux Journal does a much better job of explaining VTun and using it with SSH tunnels. I'd like to try out VTun, as...