Secure FTP Applet

May 27, 2006

How time flies, it has been nearly an year since we released Rad SFTP version 1.60. There wasn't a new release since then primarily because it works and works well. There are only so many features that you can add...

Moron with Microsoft URL Control

May 25, 2006

Some moron with a User Agent Microsoft URL Control sent more than 7000 hits to radinks.com during a very short period. Apparently this user agent string is the name used the http connection classes in some stupid windows library. Apparently...

Rad Image Viewer 0.92

May 24, 2006

Rad Image Viewer 0.92 has been released. Chanegs from the previous version include: Slide Show. This new feature allows all the images in a selected folder to be displayed as a slideshow with out having to hit the next previous...

Fullscreen mode and keyboard acceleration

May 23, 2006

While working on Rad Image Viewer, I ran into an issue with keyboard acceleration in full screen mode. By setting a keyboard accelerator for a JMenuItem, makes it possible to invoke the action without navigating through the menu. The action...

Macbook.

May 18, 2006

Finally, after long last Apple has released a usable and affordable notebook. Sure the ibook was affordable in comparision to the other macs, heck it's even cheaper than powerbook desktop but heck it was obsolete for a long time. In...

Rad Upload 3

May 17, 2006

The second beta for Rad Upload 3 has been released. There are couple of small changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 but I am happy to say there are no bug fixes because no bugs were reported. The first...

Rad Image

May 16, 2006

Rad Image is a project that would (and should) be categorized as Abandonware. But that is about to change. Rad Image was project that I started off on late 2002 and abondoned in the first quarter of 2003. The primary...

Rad Image Viewer

May 12, 2006

This is the first new release of Rad Image Viewer after january 2003. It includes several improvements. When the image was larger than the view area part of the image would be hidden. This issue has been fixed. The cursor...

Jode

May 11, 2006

Proguard has long been my favourite obfuscator/optimizer. That doesn't mean I have been faithfull. I have cast wishfull eyes at other obfuscators. Now my attention has been attracted by jode. Getting close to Jode is painfull. Ran into trouble straight...

More on D70S on linux

May 10, 2006

Found an article at http://www.math.ntnu.no/~berland/nef/ that explain how you can automate your workflow when shooting Raw with your Nikon D70S. Part of the process includes using neftags2jpg but I had trouble compiling that. neftags2jpg.cc: In function ‘void buildDatum(int, int, int,...

Adwords spam and click fraud.

May 9, 2006

Google doesn't take click fraud and adwords spam sites seriously enough. That's the only conclusion that can be reached from the recent court case. Here are some links: http://www.techspot.com/news/21515-companies-complain-over-googles-settlement-of-click-fraud.html http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=45038 http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060505-093800 http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187001807 All these articles say that click fraud amounts...

Lighttpd

May 8, 2006

I came across lighttpd only because I decided to try out Ruby on Rails. So far I have not had anything good to say about Ruby. And because one shouldn't say anything unless one has something nice to say, I...

dnscache

May 7, 2006

I had an installation of a caching name server on my computer but it disappeared sometime ago. I can't remember the exact reason might have been a hard disk crash. Here I am doing another installation, cause SLT DNS is...

PHP 4.4.1 on apache and the HTTP Put method.

May 5, 2006

Some time ago, I wrote about segmentation faults when attempting to upload a file using the HTTP Put method. That was when I had PHP 4.4.1 installed on apache 2.2. What I didn't notice at the time was that the...

Log Mine 0.03

May 4, 2006

Log Mine version 0.03 has been released. It comes just one week after the release of version 0.02 but a new release is warranted because of significant changes. The most important change is that the guesswork involved in importing the...

Goofing up date and time calculations.

May 2, 2006

No matter how many programming languages I learn (I know quite a few), one thing I will never master is date and time calculations. In times past, I have even called my self the april fool of programming. Name calling...

 

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