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After finding Hyper to be just waaaay too slow and clunky (i.e. basically useless) on a MBP 2010 i7 2.66 GHz running OS X 10.13.6, I tried some others, from 9 Alternatives for the Apple’s Mac Terminal App.
Spinrite on OSX
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After seeing a torrent for Spinrite 6 OSX (which never actually downloaded), I wondered if there actually was a OS X version… There isn’t.
However, see
Required:
- spinrite.exe
- PlayOnMac
- VirtualBox
Works on Sierra and High Sierra
White MacBoook – No keyboard connector on PCB
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White Macbook – looking at it externally, could be 06, 07, SR, 08 or 09 – after investigation it turned out to be a A1342, Apple MacBook “Core 2 Duo” 2.26 13″ (Uni/Late 09) Specs
The ribbon cable connector on the PCB is missing, therefore it will not power up. However, there could be power on pads.
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Perl Arrays – without the ads
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From Perl – Arrays, a pathetic and terribly resource hungry web page
MacBook Pro 2011 vs 2012 – RAM and Battery
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Will the RAM from a 2012 13″ 2.9 GHz i7 work in a 2011 13″ 2.7 GHz i7?
Course notes: JavaScript
µTorrent files on OS X
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Where exactly are all of the µTorrent files located?
On Mountain Lion, uTorrent 1.8.7
OpenCV trackbars and OS X
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Notoriously poor coding by the OpenCV group here, with trackbars being barely functional.
The two main issues are:
- Trackbar value is not displayed
- Trackbar ordering is not the same as the order in which they are coded
- In fact is is apparently random, or pseudo-random – it is a logic, but it is not clear what that logic is
Additional issues are:
- Named windows containing only trackbars do not move with
moveWindow() - Named windows containing only trackbars do not resize with
resizeWindow()– check this!!! - Code execution pauses when a trackbar is adjusted
- Performance hits
- When trackbars are in the same window as the image being adjusted
I have seen these issues consistently in Python. I am not sure if they all occur in C++ as I haven’t tested for them (yet).
Version info:
- OS X: High Sierra
- Python 3.7/3.9
- OpenCV:
Awk notes: filtering on timestamps
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Related to this question, How to remove test results during the ramping period from a CSV test result file?
Icons
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Converting (PNG/TIFF and) ICO to ICNS – basically.
Harking back to the serialplot application, see HOWTO: Port serialplot to OS X, I decided to use the provided ICO file, to give the OS X application an icon. Sounds easy, right?
Use imagemagick, or don’t… personally, I wouldn’t bother…
Doing it manually, as I want to avoid using the most annoying Xcode, which makes life way too easy. Let’s set the icon in the most difficult way possible…
