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Verilog plugin for Eclipse

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:35:52 +0000

If you are going to develop Verilog/VHDL code using eclipse I’ve got good news for you. Veditor provides a nice environment to work with Verilog. To install it click Help->Install new software. The repository URL is at: http://veditor.sourceforge.net/update Be sure to uncheck Group items by category, otherwise Veditor won’t show up.

Manage VMware virtual machines from the command line

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:40:41 +0000

To control VMware Workstation Virtual Machines from the command line use the vmrun utility. For instance, to stop a running virtual machine use this command: # vmrun stop myvm.vmx For a comprehensive guide on vmrun take a look at this document.

Send mail from the command line on Mac OSX

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:55:45 +0000

I’ll be using my Gmail account to send mail. The first step is to configure the local Postfix server as a relay. Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf: sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf Search for a “relayhost=” line and add the following after it: relayhost = smtp.gmail.com:587 smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = smtp_sasl_local_domain = yourdomain.com #smtpd_sasl_application_name = smtpd [...]

Mac OSX Preview, merge, crop, delete, add blank PDF pages

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:34:54 +0000

To merge and/or remove PDF pages we need the sidebar so press the sidebar button (see first figure). You can switch from thumbnails to table of contents from the button located at the bottom right corner (see second figure). Merge PDFs. Open the first PDF and then just drag & drop the second PDF to [...]

Dictionary Tooltip, on-the-fly word translations while reading web pages

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:00:08 +0000

Dictionary Tooltip is a Firefox Addon that displays on-the-fly word translations in a small tooltip on the same page you’re reading. Working with Dictionary Tooltip is very easy. You just have to double-click on a word and you instantly get the definition for that word (or its translation to another language). Dictionary Tooltip comes with [...]

Visual Studio Doxygen Latex and encoding problems

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:06:30 +0000

Today I tried to extract documentation from source code programmed in Visual Studio using doxygen. The Latex document didn’t compile correctly because of encoding problems. Googling for a solution I’ve discovered that Visual Studio may include some strange characters in the saved files. To fix the files I’d recommend using an Hexadecimal Editor. In my [...]

Google announces Google Chrome OS

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:17:03 +0000

Google announces Google Chrome OS.

Save disk space on Mac OSX Leopard

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:14:27 +0000

How to save a great amount of disk space on Mac Leopard with Xslimmer.

Video streaming with VLC

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:20:24 +0000

This post explains how to stream video with VLC from the console.

WordPress Complete Backup Solution

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:05:23 +0000

How to backup your WordPress installation (database + files). Also how to restore the backup.