http://01welp.co.uk random ramblings from welp Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:42:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems that someone at Apple has turned on _GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING in such a way that it is breaking _GLIBCXX_DEBUG builds. This means that (with some Xcode/GCC/OS X versions) if you try to use strings from the C++ standard library without enabling the _GLIBXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING preprocessor macro, your debug builds will have ... http://01welp.co.uk/2010/02/issues-with-c-strings-in-os-xs-standard-library/ Just before exams started, I experimented with a new note-taking method as part of my revision process. I've since decided to use this method for all of my notes for the foreseeable future. Being deaf, I'm eligible for a DSA (Disabled Students Allowance) grant, which would provide for services such as ... http://01welp.co.uk/2010/02/on-learning-and-being-lazy/ This year, I managed to attend FOSDEM without any mishaps (such as broken legs...) for my third time! For those of you who don't know, FOSDEM stands for Free and Open-source Software Developers' European Meeting - held every February at the ULB in Brussels. This year's event had around 300 ... http://01welp.co.uk/2010/02/the-awesomeness-which-is-fosdem/ I, uuh... successfully broke my ThinkPad T61 the other day. Still not quite sure how I managed that! But the hinge just completely snapped, and I broke the LCD further whilst attempting to take the LCD bezel off. So I was computerless! Well, not quite computerless, but working on the ThinkPad ... http://01welp.co.uk/2010/01/i-got-a-mac/ As I mentioned in my last blog post, I do enjoy my reading, even though it does come at a cost (which I do tend to complain about...). A number of my friends have suggested getting an eBook reader and getting my books in a digital format, which is quite ... http://01welp.co.uk/2009/08/ebooks-vs-real-books/ ... I always seem to pick the expensive hobbies? Seriously. Sailing, skiing and shooting are the three primary sports in which I participate. None of these sports come cheap - both in terms of costs associated with purchasing boats/skis/guns, but in actually doing the sport - you need to pay ... http://01welp.co.uk/2009/08/why-is-it-that/ As most of you probably know, about 2 months ago, I retired from Gentoo. I have been using Fedora as my "distribution of choice" on my laptop since that time, and I have been very impressed with it on the whole. However, there have been a number of niggles which have ... http://01welp.co.uk/2009/06/explaining-my-planned-move-to-a-mac/ The Olympus E-P1 looks absolutely stunning. It's highly likely that I'll be buying one of those come September. The E-P1 does away with the mirror box of D-SLRs, whilst retaining a large Micro Four Thirds sized sensor, which results in a camera which isn't really an SLR, but produces high quality ... http://01welp.co.uk/2009/06/olympus-e-p1-and-my-next-computer/ After upgrading to Fedora 11 (and thus upgrading Firefox to 3.5 Beta 4), I noticed that Firefox was not correctly identifying some of the ICC colour profiles and thus was rendering some of the images incorrectly. According to this wiki page, it should be a simple matter of going to about:config ... http://01welp.co.uk/2009/06/mozilla-firefox-35-beta-4-and-colour-profiles/ As I wrote in my last blog post, I'm currently looking into getting a film rangefinder such as the Bessa R3a. Obviously, such cameras don't come cheap, and I've been looking into ways to make it worth my while (and money!). I uncovered (somehow, whilst browsing around) [this project]. Now, I ... http://01welp.co.uk/2009/06/one-camera-one-year/