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This machine drives wooden poles into the ground, then the operator puts a concrete pole on top of the wooden pole and drive it too into the ground. This makes quite alot of noice. It goes something like BANG BANG BANG BANG… for about eight hours a day. The photo has been taken from my office window. Needless to say – I’m very fond of this machine.
PS. Another nice feature is that it produces a lot of dust so my car now has a yellow-ish colour tone.
>This weekend my DM500-T has finally debuted as my own little media centre. It was given the highly important task of recording the F1 race and store the TS file on my little file server. The file server is a little Debian box built around a slow VIA Mini-ITX card with passive cooling. All that I need to do before it is allowed in the living room is to replace a fan in the chassis with a quite one and get some rubber suspensions for the harddrive.
Installing Debian worked like a charm – starting from the minimal network installation CD, downloading what I needed and configuring Samba to handle the file sharing. All I need to do is to install acpid to make it possible to turn the box off – it does not have a keyboard. Apparently using ssh, logging in and running shutdown was not a wife compatible solution :-)
The only thing that I’m looking for to make the Dreambox setup complete is a good slideshow software for the DM500. Any tips are welcome!
Finally, this was kind of funny.
>I’ve just updated my page listing GCC error messages with a whole bunch of new messages. Lots and lots thanks to Diederik from Codingdomain. He just send me a mail with a whole list of error messages and solutions.
>According to US patent 7028023 it looks like everyone using QLinkedList are violating a patent. Let’s have some of those in Europe as well *irony*. I’m making a donation to FSFE.
>The F1 season has finally started with a nice race. Hamilton proved to be quick, Kovi was a bit of a disappointment, as was the breakdown of Kubica’s car. The results could had been even better than they where (for a BMW fan, that is). A fourth for Heidfeld, with a good part of the race in second place was really good. Hopefully we’ll see both cars there or even further ahead next time.
>When creating plug-ins for Qt Designer you always run into the task of implementing a plug-in class. This can be tedious as you pretty much add your class name to a template. Now, thanks to some php-magic, you just have to enter your class name and press a button to get the code. Try it yourself: the Qt Designer Plug-in Generator.
Note! This is beta (alpha) software – not very tested – use it at your own risk.
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Last week I had my car on service and was given a fairly new Skoda Fabia as a replacement car for the day. I live in Sweden, so I had the car fitted with spiked tires, just in case. As you might already be aware – these tires adds some extra noise, compared to ordinary friction tires or summer tires. Anyway – I just could not understand why the car was fitted with a stereo. Especially as I had to rev it over 4000 rpm to get a decent high-way speed.
But all is not bad – having to rev means having to shift alot and that makes the driving more challenging. To sum thing up, it is slow, noisy and requires quite alot of shifting – but also kind of fun in that regard. It felt good to get my own car back.
>I’ve just updated my list of GCC errors and their solutions with three more entries:
Enjoy!
>I ran into something peculiar today when using the Model/View classes in Qt 4.2 – probably something related to TaskTracker issue 143383. To demonstrate, let’s start with a minimal model that can be reset from a public method:
class MyStringListModel : public QStringListModel
{
public:
MyStringListModel( const QStringList &items ) : QStringListModel( items, 0 ) {}
void resetModel() { reset(); }
};
I start by initializing the model and viewing it through a QListView:
QListView listView;
QStringList items;
items << "Kalle" << "Olle" << "Albert" << "Sven" << "Anders" << "Markus";
MyStringListModel model( items );
listView.setModel( &model );
Then I set the current index and select it – this is equvalent to picking it with the mouse (that was how I ran into the issue):
listView.selectionModel()->setCurrentIndex(
model.index( 3, 0, QModelIndex() ),
QItemSelectionModel::SelectCurrent );
This gives us the following state:
listView.selectionModel()->hasSelection() == true
listView.selectionModel()->selectedIndexes().count() == 1
listView.selectionModel()->currentIndex().isValue == true
Now, I reset the model:
model.resetModel();
The situation changes to:
listView.selectionModel()->hasSelection() == true
listView.selectionModel()->selectedIndexes().count() == 0
listView.selectionModel()->currentIndex().isValue == false
The same thing happens when using select instead of setCurrentIndex. When using the following line…
listView.selectionModel()->select(
model.index( 3, 0, QModelIndex() ),
QItemSelectionModel::SelectCurrent );
… you get the following:
listView.selectionModel()->hasSelection() == true
listView.selectionModel()->selectedIndexes().count() == 1
listView.selectionModel()->currentIndex().isValue == false
And after resetting the model it looks like this:
listView.selectionModel()->hasSelection() == true
listView.selectionModel()->selectedIndexes().count() == 0
listView.selectionModel()->currentIndex().isValue == false
The TaskTracker entry says that the bug is fixed, so this is likely to have been fixed in the Qt 4.3 snapshots. If you’re using an earlier release it looks as if the selectedIndexes().count() is a better way to determine if something is selected.
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I visited the BitSim headquarters yesterday and got a chance to see the spring in Stockholm. It was nice to notice that it is slightly warmer in Gothenburg – but still far too cold for my taste – around 8 dgC.
It it would have been raining it would have been dangerously close to the Swedish standard temperature. It is 12 dgC. Combined with rain this is the Swedish standard weather. It is called just that because it could be chistmas eve or midsummer. It is is 12 dgC and raining you cannot tell.
Now it may sound as if Sweden is permanently cold and rainy. That is quite far from the truth. I’ve seen beautiful winterdays in the north with temperatures close to -35 dgC. In the summer we can reach around 30 dgC some days – and that is a bit too hot for my taste. I prefer around 25-27 dgC if I can be picky :-)
Anyway, enough about the weather. Stockholm was nice as always and it is always fun to visit the headquarters. This time I got a chance to have a closer look at the Badger demo – it was really cool. Live video, alphablended graphics and nearly no CPU load – it impressed the geek in me :-)