Posted by Benjamin Close on May 6, 2011 under OpenSource, Programming | 
This article details a reason libdc1394_video_set_mode/libdc1394_video_set_framerate may not work. Whilst working on an application that makes use of a 1394a/firewire camera I found a strange bug/feature with libdc1394. The problem was dc1394 was being used to the mode of the camera to 800×600 resolution. However, when querying the frame size after dequeuing the frame, the [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Programming |
This article describes a possible reason glTexSubImage2D may be slow. Recently I was working on a piece of code that updated a texture with a camera frame. The application was using the fixed function (non shaders) pipeline of OpenGL. Whilst I didn’t notice it at first, I soon found that the camera image was very [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on February 23, 2011 under FreeDesktop |
Hi Folks, as of today https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ should now no longer give any warnings in a browser. The SSL certificate being provided by StartCom for free. Manythanks to StartCom for their Free SSL certificate service!
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 21, 2011 under OpenSource |
Recently a colleague of mine came to me with a problem he was having with SSL certificates and the web server Apache 2.2. Put simply Apache (httpd) would not start. It was an unusual situation as this server had been running flawlessly for almost 2 years and it was only a recent power outage that [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on December 10, 2010 under Computers |
Tags: 64 bit, 64bit, belkin, converter, MCT, osx 10, philips, serial, unsupported, usb, vista, windows 7
This article details how to use a Belkin FSU409 USB to Serial Converter under Windows Vista/Windows 7 64bit
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 13, 2010 under Computers, Country Living, wireless |
Having moved into our new home, it was time to get internet access up and running. We have no fixed phone line and with us both having mobile phones had no intention to get one. Hence we began looking into what wireless options were available. Eventually we settled on a 3G wireless mobile broad band [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on April 14, 2010 under FreeBSD |
Recently a port audit security advisor was released that indicated an exploit with sudoedit of the security/sudo FreeBSD port. At the time I was running sudo 1.6.9 and being a responsible system administrator, I decided to upgrade sudo to the latest revision of the port (1.7.2p2 at the time). The upgrade went very smoothly, with [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 8, 2010 under FreeBSD, UniSA |
Recently I was working on a php command line program that required access to a serial port. Initially developed under Linux the program was then shifted to it’s permanent location on a FreeBSD server. This is where we first started having problems. Initially we discovered the server didn’t have a native serial port. We fixed [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on November 6, 2009 under FreeDesktop |
Please welcome Gaetan Nadon to the Xorg development team, mentored initially by Peter Hutterer (whot)
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 12, 2009 under ClearChain, Computers |
Recently the server hosting clearchain.com (aka Leo) has been having disk io errors. This has had me quite perplexed. You see Leo is a virtual machine running on redundant hardware as part of an VMWare ESX cluster. Hence whilst I can understand slow performance and delayed access at some times, disk IO’s don’t make sense. [..more..]
