Again, I was a bit stuck with my Mac. SmoothMouse was helping with the mouse handling but not fully solving the issues with acceleration. Sometimes, the pointer was just going away. I cannot believe I loose it so often: it just disappears! I often have to bring the pointer to the top left corner two… Poursuivre la lecture From Snow Leopard to Lion: a leap towards the limbo
Groovy and Eclipse incompatible in practice
This week, I tried to get my Groovy+Eclipse setup back and running, because I needed to debug a complex script that was outputting 15-20 line stack traces with a lot of useless information about Groovy internals. Finding the exact error message was taking me several seconds and no matter how hard I was trying to… Poursuivre la lecture Groovy and Eclipse incompatible in practice
Au moins trois autres pièces manquantes
Donald était content des progrès qu’il avait accomplis ces derniers mois. Il était moins tenté par la paresse et arrivait à faire son travail avec moins de fatigue. Pour guérir du mal causé par la démone bleue, il a dû se frotter à un démon noir, résistant à la tentation qu’il lui a infligé de… Poursuivre la lecture Au moins trois autres pièces manquantes
Audio driver conflict causing slow startup
Since at least two months, Windows 8.1 startup is awfully slow. From UEFI boot to login screen, it takes a few seconds, which is perfectly reasonable and what I expect from a Core i7 computer equipped with a SSD. However, after I was typing my password to login, it was taking between 30 to 45… Poursuivre la lecture Audio driver conflict causing slow startup
Contorted CD ripping
On December 24th, I got the Namasté CD from Steve Trottier. I was in Chambly, away from my main computer, so unable to easily rip the disk and I wanted to listen to it on my way to Mauricie or back to Montreal. My parents were not interested in listening to it so I could… Poursuivre la lecture Contorted CD ripping
Recovering Final Cut Express
Yesterday, I tried to get my Final Cut Express setup back on my Mac. It went away when I reinstalled Mac OS X and formatted the hard drive. However, before formatting, I backed up the complete Applications and Library folders, so I had a possibility to get Final Cut Express back by just copying back… Poursuivre la lecture Recovering Final Cut Express
Firefox and Chrome mixing up
Yesterday, when I started Firefox, I noticed that the Chrome’s interface shown up instead. I thought I picked the wrong icon, closed the window and tried to start Firefox again: no more Firefox icon in the start menu. I pressed the Windows key, typed Firefox, picked the Mozilla Firefox result and pressed Enter. I got… Poursuivre la lecture Firefox and Chrome mixing up
Problematic network file transfer
Yesterday, I wanted to transfer a VirtualBox VM from my main computer to my ultrabook, in order to have a basic Ubuntu VM on my secondary machine. That operation happened to be harder than expected. First, I booted my two computers. My main machine is hooked up permanently to my router, but my ultrabook usually… Poursuivre la lecture Problematic network file transfer
The power of i7
Yesterday, I got truly impressed after months of disappointment about performance. I was trying to reinstall Myst IV and have some nostalgic fun with it, but this time, Windows 8.1 decided that it wouldn’t start the autorun program on the DVD. There was no other setup program on the disk, so I had to either… Poursuivre la lecture The power of i7
Ubuntu on my Mac: possible but limited
I read quite a lot of wrong and contradictory information when I searched for feasibility of installing Ubuntu on my 2006 MacBook Pro. Part of the problem is that users don’t all understand the pieces of the puzzle involved to boot a Mac into Ubuntu, but the multitude of variants of MacBook Pro, with varying… Poursuivre la lecture Ubuntu on my Mac: possible but limited