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Windows 8 SDK

MS Visual C++ 2012 SDK might be already mature enough and lots of libraries are being built with this version these days. Its support for C++11 is also supposedly better so lets try it. This is not a...

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Xubuntu upgrade to 13.10 with troubles

New (X)Ubuntu switched to systemd and it brought new challenges with upgrading. I use Xubuntu fork but this might affect others as well. I can’t turn off or hibernate the computer. Even after logout...

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Elecrow PCB prototyping

Another quick PCB manufacturer review. This time it was an audioohmmeter sent to Elecrow PCB service. Price was $9.90 + $3.72 shipment. I ordered 5 pieces, got 10. Nice! Overall quality looks very...

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MS VC++ 2012 and Windows XP

MS VC++ 2012 is installed, development environment is fine tuned with all necessary libraries, QT and boost are no longer complaining about missing components etc… Then you find out that your...

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Hibernation and turning swap off

Having 16 GB RAM today is nothing extraordinary. Swap seems to be a useless thing. And it perhaps is. Even if you are able somehow fill up those gigs of memory then it is caused probably by some...

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VIM auto save spell checking language

If switching between languages is frequent then having a fixed default spell checking language on every start is not very comfortable. This simple plugin solved my issue: let...

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Linux full disk encryption

Set up reasonably secure encryption without sacrificing too much computing power. I had previously configured only a single encrypted partition but the PAM unlocking caused many troubles. Advantage of...

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Missing icons in Xfce systray

There are 2 plugins for the Xfce panel for systray icons: notification area, indicator plugin. The first one is the right one, the second one is very obsolete. What happened to me was that the...

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Zsh completion with visual hints

Have you ever tried to complete a command that takes longer time? Like a remote server path completion for scp. It takes few moments and after pressing <TAB> you don’t know if there is nothing to...

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Reserve virtual memory

I needed to load a huge amount of data into memory. It had to be a continuous chunk of memory and I could not tell the size from a beginning. C++ std::vector is a good candidate however its downside is...

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