Author: Marc

FOCUSFactor

If there were a supplement that could increase your brain's performance, who wouldn't be interested? That's why when I heard commercials for FOCUSFactor on the radio, my feelings were a mix of interest and extreme skepticism. I...

Programming

Beej’s guides

Brian "Beej" Hall has written a couple of really useful guides on topics of interest to Unix programmers: Beej's Guide to Unix Interprocess Communication (IPC) - signals, pipes, FIFOs (named pipes), sockets, shared memory,...

GeneralProgramming

The Art of Unix Programming

Online version of Eric Raymond's "The Art of Unix Programming"

General

RRDtool

RRDtool is a useful tool for logging and graphing data that is collected at regular time intervals and kept for a limited amount of time. Whereas with a traditional database, you would need to periodically remove old entries to...

GeneralMac

My first Automator workflow

Something I've been doing quite a bit lately on my Mac is downloading new software in the form .dmg files and copying the .app file in the disk image to my Applications folder. I wanted a nice little shortcut for quickly copying...

LinuxMacWindows

Sudoku for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X

Here's an open source Sudoku game that works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X: Michael Sweet's FLTK-based Sudoku game...

LinuxMac

Playing with the QEMU emulator on Mac OS X

On occasion, it might be nice to run Windows or Linux on my PowerBook, but I don't yet have Virtual PC. So I tried the free QEMU emulator today. According to Free OS Zoo, the best way to run QEMU on the Mac is to use Q, a Cocoa...