I have an Apple Airport Extreme wireless router. Because I have an iPhone (it can’t connect via 802.11n), I had to have my Airport Radio Mode set to “802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)”, which means when the iPhone was connected (and maybe at other times) the Airport was broadcasting at the slower b/g protocol speeds. [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2009 by Kirk Ireson
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How to get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox:
In the url Location Bar, type ‘about:config’.
Then in the filter box, type ‘browser.display.focus_ring_width’.
Set its value from 1 to 0.
Posted on March 8th, 2009 by Kirk Ireson
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Shameless plug for the writings of my grandfather at http://tolstrup.us. You’ll find stories and pictures of him growing up in the midwest in the early part of the 20th century.
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Kirk Ireson
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The Google team about a year ago added IMAP services to gmail. This is a great way to be able to manage your mail from several different places (e.g. client software at work, and web based gmail page on the road) and have everything automatically be in sync.
I’m also a big fan of the open [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
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I can’t use any other browser no matter how fast or cool because I’ve gotten so used to add-ons for firefox!
Here are mine, and in case you’re wondering, I have all these currently installed (Mac OS, is my current OS of choice) and Firefox runs at nearly the same speed as no add-ons:
——— These are INDISPENSIBLE: ———
DownloadStatusbar: [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
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Trying to use the Imagemagick toolbox (for me, installed via MacPorts) sometimes doesn’t work (for example, converting a png image) in Matlab because Matlab for some reason uses the libraries in its path over those given in system call (this is for Mac, but probably for *nix and maybe even Windows).
This is an example call:
[s,w] = [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X, Matlab, Original | 11 Comments »
I have a rev B (Core 2 Duo from Dec, 2006) Apple MacBook Pro laptop running Leopard OS X (version 10.5.2) and have Matlab version 7.5.0.338 (R2007b). I’ve just found that I can NOT use the built-in serial port object, instead, I get the following error:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no rxtxSerial in java.library.path thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver
??? [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
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With a fresh install of MacPorts version 1.6.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, then issuing the command:
sudo port install tcl
returned:
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:35: error: nested redefinition of ‘enum NXByteOrder’
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:35: error: redeclaration of ‘enum NXByteOrder’
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:36: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘NX_UnknownByteOrder’
/usr/include/architecture/byte_order.h:137: error: previous definition of ‘NX_UnknownByteOrder’ was here
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:37: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘NX_LittleEndian’
/usr/include/architecture/byte_order.h:138: error: previous definition of [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
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Newsyland blog starts today.
Yes, the world is treated to yet another blog. I have wanted to have a blog for some time now, to share, give back if you will, things I have learned – some internet wisdom and some of my own discoveries. I spent some time looking at CMS software and wanted to [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2007 by Kirk Ireson
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