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Archive for December, 2015

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Double up two Ultimate Ears devices to your Mac (or PC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/16

Two great Ultimate Ears tricks. First pairing them (thanks daleph, see also the video below):

To pair 2 devices without an app:

  1. Pair the FIRST speaker with your mac:
    1. Go to System Preferences > Bluetooth
    2. Press and hold the Bluetooth button until a tone is heard, it should appear as UM BOOM, pair it.
  2. Start playing music
  3. On the device now playing music press and hold the + and the Bluetooth keys until a tone is heard
  4. On the SECOND speaker press the Bluetooth button twice quickly
  5. After a few seconds both speakers will join together

They are only added as an identical pair, NOT Left and Right stereo

HTH

Dale

Source: Re: UE Boom app for Mac – Logitech Forums

Then doing double up in stereo (thanks tomborai and McAllan):

There IS a way… you just gotta find a buddy who has the UE Boom App on either iOS or Android.

Set up STEREO mode and enable “Double Up Lock” just once with the App, ensure it plays proper stereo, then disconnect and power off both speakers.

App no longer needed.

Whenever you desire, power on both speakers around the same time, they will pair within seconds.

Then take your MAC, pair the first speaker only (LEFT), et voila, the speakers have memorized the stereo mode, enjoy!

Sources:

–jeroen

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Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | 4 Comments »

c++ – In which order should floats be added to get the most precise result? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/16

Interesting:

sorting in ascending order (of magnitude) usually improves things

–jeroen

via c++ – In which order should floats be added to get the most precise result? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Algorithms, Development, Floating point handling, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

playDXTR – The World’s Smartest Building Blocks by DXTR Labs, Inc — Kickstarter

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/15

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playdxtr/playdxtr-the-worlds-smartest-building-blocks

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delphi – RAD Studio 2009 Persistent Selection Issue: Bug or Feature? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/15

Bug, also in Delphi 2007:

Just hit Insert twice (which changes the text entry mode between Insert and Overwrite and then back) and your text selection will be back to working normally.

Source: delphi – RAD Studio 2009 Persistent Selection Issue: Bug or Feature? – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

.NET/C#: PasteText command line tool as reverse of Clip.exe

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/15

Quite a while ago I learned about the clip.exe tool.

clip.exe is a nifty tool that allows you to copy console text output to the clipboard. Though shipping with Windows Server 2003, it wasn’t part of Windows XP, but as of Windows Vista it shipped on desktop versions of Windows.

Digging a bit deeper, I found out it was already part of the Windows NT 4 Resource Kit.

So I wrote PasteText:

PasteText: the reverse of clip.exe; pastes Clipboard.GetText() or Clipboard.GetFileDropList() to the standard output.

The full source code is below and in my repository.

There are many examples on the internet about Clipboard.GetText, but there is very little about Clipboard.GetFileDropList. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

SSDs that are HUGE: when will they actually be there? And how much would they cost?

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/14

Close to X-mas, so doing some dreaming of unaffordable things (:

In august, this 2.5 device was sort of announced: PM1633a: a Samsumg 16TB (nah: 15.36TB) SSD.

No news ever since, so I wonder when will they get to the market and how much they would cost.

Just like I’m wondering about a Retina MacBook Pro with 2TB of SSD storage and more than 32 GB RAM (:

–jeroen

Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: SKU numbers for the ThinkPad UltraNav USB keyboards with horizontal Enter key and 6 rows of keys

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/14

IBM/Lenovo stopped producing ThinkPad UltraNav keyboards with 7 rows of keys a while ago. It stopped me from buying ThinkPad machines (together with the screen issues), but I still use the external USB UltraNav keyboards which are harder and harder to get.

So here some SKU/FRU/PN/EAN that seem to have a horizontal enter key and US layout.

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Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards | Leave a Comment »

/etc/netconfig conflict

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/13

Hmm:

Detected 1 file conflict:

File /etc/netconfig
  from install of
     libtirpc3-1.0.1-1.1.x86_64 (Main Repository (OSS))
  conflicts with file from install of
     libtirpc1-0.2.5-1.1.x86_64 (openSUSE-20150508-0)

File conflicts happen when two packages attempt to install files with the same name but different contents. If you continue, conflicting files will be replaced losing the previous content.

Changes: go figure (:

revue:/etc # diff netconfig.201507191158 netconfig
13,14d12
< udp6       tpi_clts      v     inet6    udp     -       -
 udp6       tpi_clts      v     inet6    udp     -       -
> tcp6       tpi_cots_ord  v     inet6    tcp     -       -

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

This week, some ideas to debug and monitor your 6502-based system.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/12

Interesting links to some sites explaining how to build the hardware side, including PCB design and creation: This week, some ideas to debug and monitor your 6502-based system.

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Windows: Some links around SeBatchLogonRight (Logon as Batch job)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/11

I will need this one day when doing some migration of jobs written as cmd scripts that are now ran occasionally by end-users into a scheduled fashion.

–jeroen

via: “Logon as batch job” script – Google Search

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »

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