[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: Richard Dawe
Member since: 2000-06-19 19:34:39
Last Login: 2008-07-18 18:51:44
Homepage: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/
Notes:
I used to work on:
DJGPP: This is more than just a port of the GNU utilites to protected-mode DOS. I maintained a number of ports of GNU tools to DJGPP and was the release manager on the DJGPP 2.04 release for the alpha and first beta.
libsocket: This is a networking library which used Windows's low-level device drivers to provide DJGPP programs with the BSD sockets API.
pakke: This is a package manager for DJGPP, which has made using DJGPP a lot easier (for me, at least!).
Now I'm trying to decide what fresh, new and interesting stuff to find out about and work on.
Slow scrolling in Firefox on Fedora 12 - workaround
After upgrading to Fedora 12, I found that scrolling in Firefox was painfully slow. I'm using the Nouveau driver with a Geforce Go 5700 chip in my old 3.2 GHz Athlon64 laptop. Scrolling seemed to peg the CPU usage at 100% and render the computer unusable for the duration of the (very slow) scrolling.Syndicated 2010-02-05 11:45:12 (Updated 2010-02-05 11:46:09) from richdawe
Mac OS X firewall vs. DHCP
I've been having some issues with Mac OS X not being able to configure itself with DHCP. It looks like the firewall was blocking DHCP responses. Quick solution was to turn off the firewall. Longer-term solution may be that I need to reinstall configd and mDNSResponder from the latest Mac OS X update, so that they are signed correctly, so that the firewall trusts them again.
Looking for a contractor for Professional Services
I work in the Professional Services team at Message Systems, where I have fun designing and developing custom integrations of our e-mail software platform to fulfil the needs and requirements of various clients.
We're looking for someone for a six-month contract in the Bristol area:
From the full job specification:
The Message Systems engineering team is looking for a highly motivated Professional Services Engineer to help build custom solutions on top of our best-of-breed messaging platform. You will work closely with our internationally-renowned engineering team to deliver solutions to our customers.
The projects range from carrier-class deployments to support millions of messages per day to mass-market enterprise appliances used by Fortune 500 companies.
Please see the full job specification for details of how to apply.
Syndicated 2009-05-20 03:12:34 (Updated 2009-05-20 03:15:42) from richdawe
Macbook Pro overheating
It appears reinstalling Mac OS X Leopard has done something to the default fan settings on my work MBP. I've had problems today with the GPU overheating (triggered by several minutes of Spotlight indexing things). I've installed smcFanControl2 and cranked the default fan speed up to 3,000 rpm. This seems to be keeping the GPU temperature under control.
FileVault ate my home directory
Yesterday I upgraded my work Macbook Pro from OS X Tiger 10.4 to Leopad 10.5.6. It was not an entirely smooth experience. After upgrading to Leopard, it all appeared to work fine -- everything seemd intact. I ran the software updates tool, and it downloaded some updates. I needed to reboot.
I use FileVault to encrypt my home directory, to protect all the confidential data on it. When you reboot/shutdown the laptop under OS X 10.4 Tiger, it asks you whether you want it to free up space occupied by deleted files within the encrypted image. You can "Skip" or "Continue".
After installing the updates and rebooting, I elected to "Skip". When the laptop came back up, I could not log in to my account. I rebooted with the OS X 10.5 Leopard install DVD (hint: press Apple-C at start-up to boot off DVD), ran Disk Utility and tried to repair the encrypted .sparseimage in my home directory. No luck.
I ended up re-installing OS X 10.5 Leopard from scratch. Fortunately I had a backup on my Linux box (encrypted with encfs).
Couple of lessons learnt:
Set up an administrator account that does not use FileVault. All the help articles I've seen assume that you can actually log into your Mac under an admin account and run Disk Utility. I wasn't able to because my account was the only administrator account.
Don't use the "Skip" option with FileVault. NB: It appears they removed it in OS X 10.5 Leopard.
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