Compact Theme Update
Compact theme just got more compact, now it switches to 16x16 icons which saves quite a bit of space for the buttons. More info here.
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Clearlooks Compact Gnome Theme
I have been using Ubuntu for quite a while now, but one thing I really dislike is that all the themes are huge space wasters compared to Windows XP. This finally got me angry enough to create a customized version of the Clearlooks theme that tries to be very compact but still maintain its beautiful look. I like the result quite a lot, I have been using this theme for more than two weeks now and it works great. It is especially nice for intense applications like Eclipse. [Read More] -
New Release of XDCC-Fetch
XDCC-Fetch is a nice little application written in Ruby that is able to download from XDCC bots on IRC. I have updated it to work with fox 1.6, so this should work with the recent Ruby version. [Read More] -
New Release of Dice-RPG
I was bored today so I have updated my little program Dice-RPG to work with fox 1.6. [Read More] -
Howto Change Ubuntu Forced fsck
In Ubuntu 7.10 the boot hard disk is checked every 20 boots. I have to boot my laptop quite often, so about once a week booting takes more than 10 minutes. This clearly sucks. Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix this. With tune2fs it is possible to change the interval from mount-times to timed interval: [Read More] -
Optimized pow() approximation for Java, C / C++, and C#
I have already written about approximations of e^x, log(x) and pow(a, b) in my post Optimized Exponential Functions for Java. Now I have more
In particular, the pow() function is now even faster, simpler, and more accurate. Without further ado, I proudly give you the brand new approximation:
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Climbing the Donnerkogel Klettersteig
I just came home from a fabulous Klettersteig (I don’t know an English name for this, maybe “fixed rope route”), namely the Donnerkogel. This was a fabulous day, excellent weather, and we had a lot of fun. Here are some impressions: [Read More] -
Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison
Linux has an abundance of excellent terminal applications. Interestingly, I could not find any decent comparison of their text display performance. Since I use the command line a lot, I want text output that is as fast as possible. When you compile a large project, you don’t want the console output to be the limiting factor. [Read More] -
Javadoc Search Engine Updated
The Javadoc Search Engine now searches JDK 7 too: [Read More] -
Ajax Dojo Comet Tutorial
EDIT: This tutorial is for an old version of dojo / comet, and it will not work in a recent version! [Read More] -
Java Developer Kit (JDK) Search Engine
Thanks to Google Co-op I have just created a new search engine that searches the JDK documentation. It is quite convenient because you can use the labels to choose which version you like to see: [Read More] -
Top 10 Posts of 2007
Over the last year I have gotten quite a lot of traffic, so I think it is time to create a top ten list of the most successful articles since then. [Read More] -
Project Development Phases
The 6 stages of every project are: [Read More] -
Erlang Syntax Highlighting
I have written a language definition file for GtkSourceView to get a nice syntax highlighting for Erlang with applications that use this component, e.g. Gnome’s standard editor gedit. [Read More] -
How to Install Anything in Ubuntu Condensed
This is a very condensed excerpt of the excellent article How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu. [Read More] -
RFind - Quickly Find Files
RFind is a little application that indexes the filenames of a given directory, and allows to quickly search this index with regular expressions. [Read More] -
TextAnalyzer in Python
I have just found out that somebody has translated my textanalyzer from Ruby into Python. It also contains some improvements like stopwords. The core algorithm is still the same. Get it at kelpheavyweaponry.com. -
e — New Release of Extract Any Archive
Extract Any Archive just got better: When you extract multiple archives at once, e.g. with [Read More] -
Exponential Functions: Benchmarks, 8 Times Faster Math.pow()
I have updated the code for the Math.pow() approximation, now it is 11 times faster on my Pentium IV. Read Optimized Exponential Functions for Java for more information. Now I can also give you some benchmarks: [Read More] -
Optimized Exponential Functions for Java
Usually microoptimization is only done in C or C++, but it works quite well in Java too. For a project I needed very fast log() and exp() calculations, and Java’s Math.log() and Math.exp() just doesn’t cut it. After a bit of research I have found the following approximations that are good enough for me: [Read More]