System 76 Oryx Pro Host Virtualization
Preview of OS X and Windows 10 virtualized on a June 2018 Oryx Pro laptop in VMWare Player. Your browser does not support the video tag.1920×1080 MP4
Brightness fix on System 76 Oryx Pro
Backlight Fix System 76 Oynx Pro (2018) GTX1060 update 04/22/2023 System76 put out excellent docs on this while I was running another Linux distribution. This works great on my older Oyrx pro. I get working hybrid graphics with keyboard back-light and screen brightness control. Plus all the other System 76 goodies all work. I am […]
Really nice set of free javascript canvas gauges.
https://canvas-gauges.com
Krita and the accidental painting.
It has been a long time since I checked out Krita. I Painted this in Krita 3.1.1 on Mac Yosemite, versions for Windows as well and of course Linux; all are free. The bird took about six hours, give or take, and the program was not shut down for two days. I had one lock […]
Linux like Package Management for Windows and Mac
Package managers for installing open software. These gives you Linux like package management similar to Linux apt, zypper, yum, etc… Windows: https://chocolatey.org/install Mac: http://brew.sh/ Brew GUI https://www.cakebrew.com/
Convert PostScript to PDF from D lang calling GhostScript ps2pdf.
I’m learning D. I know, I am a program language hopper. This code provides working examples of getopts, concurrency, and a process call to convert PostScript to PDF using GhostScript in the D language.
Gambas 3 TreeView and TabStrip Example Code
I sometimes play around with Xojo and PureBasic for quick and simple GUI apps since the interface designers are convenient and the language makes for easy coding. I was checking out Gambas 3 and found it to be fairly good but lacking in a lot of examples. I was messing around with TreeView and TabStrip […]
Install Virtuoso 6.1.6 for use with Python 3 on LinuxMint 18
Install the following from the Software Manager (use apt if you prefer): Virtuoso-opensourceVirtuoso-serverVirtuoso-vad-conductorVirtuoso-vad-isparqlVirtuoso-vsp-startpageVirtuoso-opensource-6.1Virtuoso-opensource-6.1-binVirtuoso-opensource-61-commonUnixodbcLibvirtodbc0 Download zip and Install PyODBC from https://github.com/maparent/pyodbc/tree/v3-virtuoso Unzip, cd into the expended folder, then type: $ sudo python setup.py build install Add the following in the odbc.ini: $ sudo nano /etc/odbc.ini Add the following and save it. [Local Virtuoso]Driver = /usr/lib/odbc/virtodbc_r.soAddress = […]
Windows Authentication from CherryPy served from Apache 2.4/WSGI using Python 3.4 64bit.
Here’s an example with working code and all the modules to get CherryPy running in Apache via WSGI with Windows authentication. Just download and copy Apache24 and coolwhip to the C: drive, add your IP\domain to httpd.conf, and fire up the server. See the read me for more details, installing Apache yourself, and Python libraries […]
Creating a DataMatrix GS1 barcode and saving to postscript, PDF, or image for free in C#.
I’ve been working on an interesting project where I had to learn Pitney Bowes Streamweaver in order to sort/merge and barcode postscript. I have very little knowledge of postscript and no training or knowledge of Streamweaver whatsoever. I rolled my own in C# in order to understand how the product worked for parsing but didn’t […]