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lfhex - 0.42

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:49:12 -0700

Only one change in this version:
- fixed a bug where entering file offsets greater than 0xffffffff would result in changing the cursor to the wrong offset (it would wrap back to the beginning of the file).

lfhex - 0.41

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:57:42 -0700

I have just uploaded a new version of lfhex. You can grab it from the download link.

Changes:
- The binary comparison mode (-c command line option) is re-enabled (Thanks Roy Damman!)
- Fixed a bug if -NDEBUG is used (Thanks Guenther Brunthaler!)

lfhex - 0.4

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:31:27 -0800

It took me a little while longer to get some of the mundane issues sorted out (like changing from QPL to GPL to apease Qt 4.x licensing restrictions). But here it is!

lfhex on Qt 4

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:44:05 -0700

Life has been pretty hectic lately. But I am finally getting around to porting lfhex to Qt 4.0. This is my second 3.x to 4.x port and I have to say that it is a real pain. This one is made more difficult because I am also porting the build system to use qmake. It should be easy, but the source includes Flex/Bison source which only seems remotely supported by qmake.

I expect to finish the port and testing within the week!

Raid Upgrade

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:08:10 -0800

Over the last couple years I have gotten hooked on photography. Digital in particular. If you take a ton of pictures eventually you realize you need a workflow and a way of managing the amount of data you are creating.

Qt Button Size

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:00:03 -0800

Trouble getting your QPushButtons to be the size you really want? read on...

Tonality - 1.4.1

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:37:30 -0800

I just posted a new version of Tonality. Only minor bug fixes and enhancements were added.

mod_security + drupal

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:33:58 -0700

I use PHP embedded in my Drupal content. This can cause problems with mod_security ("Internal server error", number 500).

The problem is that Drupal sends Edit content back to the server via the POST method. If your content has <?php> in it then it will probably get flagged as a security error.

If your hosting provider allows .htaccess overides then you can add lines to get arround the default rules. However, the security considerations are considerable. And as I have been recently reminded, I am not a security expert. Therefore instead of giving recomendations, here is the authoritative reference for mod_security.

QTable alternating colors

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:19:24 -0700

Most modern table widgets are displayed with alternating colors to help visually distinguish between rows.
Qt 4 makes this stoopid simple for you by providing QTableWidget::setAlternatingColors(). However in Qt 3.x you have to roll your own. Read on for discussion and sample implementation.

kccmp - v0.2

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:26:21 -0700

I just uploaded a new version of kccmp. It supports building against Qt 3.x or Qt 4.x. Qt 4.x build also requires libboost_regex.
The default build is configured to be Qt 3.x.

kccmp - kernel config compare v0.1

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:03:46 -0700

kccmp - kernel configuration comparison

kccmp is a simple tool for comparing two linux kernel ".config" files.

Here is a link describing my motivation.

It has the following features:

Displays the configuration variables with different values in a table form.
Displays the configuration variables and values which are found in only one of the compared files.

lfhex build updated (again)

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:22:59 -0700

I just uploaded lfhex-0.3.7.2.tar.gz
This is a fix of a fix for a build issue :(
In 0.3.7.1 I broke the configure script for users who do not have libqt-mt.a/.so on their systems.
0.3.7.2 fixes this.

Qt 4 QTableWidget Tips and Tricks

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:57:23 -0700

How to hide headers
How to set header labels
How to alternate colors for rows
How to set defaults for table items

Kernel Config Comparison

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:54:21 -0700

Somethings that really should be simple turn out to be very complicated for me :)
Like upgrading my Linux kernel. I never seem to get it right the first time. Here are my basic steps:

lfhex build updated

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:30:33 -0700

I just uploaded lfhex v.3.7.1. It is not a feature release. It addresses the following build issues:

Reader::is_open() undefined on SuSE 9.3
Problem linking lfhex if only libqt_mt.so exist (e.g. no libqt.so)