H. Mijail's Blog

It's been kinda hard to get Eclipse to work well with big CDT projects (say, the Linux kernel, or even a BuildRoot project including the Linux kernel). The documentation for Eclipse is between non-existent and unhelpful, and I only could find a post that talked specifically about preparing an Eclipse project for the Linux kernel . But that post explains nothing, and does some arbitrary things. So this is the generalization of that.

Couldn't find anything concise, so here's my solution: a sweet short Expect (the CLI variety installed by default in Ubuntu) script to open a telnet session, feed in the user and password, AND continue to an interactive session .

Unos amigos se encontraron con un colinabo recientemente y pidieron ideas sobre qué hacer con ello. Me resultó gracioso, porque la primera vez que vi un colinabo (estando ya en Polonia) me pareció también muy extraño (imagina que te encuentras en el campo algo así pero pintado con spray metálico: yo me mantendría alejado!)

TL;DR: Mail.app wants you to download your messages even if you change manually the account .plist. Forget about it. I wanted to stop Mail.app in OS X 10.10 Yosemite from caching locally my IMAP messages. Once upon a time there was right there in Mail.app an option to do just that, but for the last couple of OS versions the only option shown there is whether to download the attachments or not.

TL;DR: avoid this buggy mess and go with macports & syslog-ng. You'll finish faster and saner. [Updated 2 times] This sounds like should be easy, but OS X is a moving target because of all the infrastructure changes they have been making for the last few OS releases. Yes, there is a syslogd, but it is some half-hollowed out thing and “others” do most of the work. Syslogd does NOT open an UDP socket, launchd does and feeds it to syslogd. Syslogd does NOT (really) receive the UDP packets, a plugin does it. Syslog does NOT parse the UDP message, ASL (Apple System Log?) does. Syslogd does NOT filter the messages and store them into “logs”, ASL does. So why there is a syslogd at all, apart from giving a slight sense of false security? (As in, “c’mon, there’s syslog, can’t be too difficult”). No idea. If I had seen how complicated this was going to get I would have bailed out and used syslog-ng from macports. Anyway. So the first step is to enable UDP reception. The manpage f...

2 years ago I wrote about selecting a mobile internet operator in Poland , and the post seemed to be popular; so here's an update. Once again I am looking for better / cheaper alternatives to T-Mobile's mobile internet, given that my usage is going down.

I wanted to try making (salted) caramel sauce with muscovado sugar, but I couldn’t find any hint if it was even possible; the most I could find was someone supposing that it would be impossible or inedible because the molasses would get burnt, and some recipes that included some part of muscovado sugar into a much bigger quantity of normal caramel. But I wanted only muscovado sugar!, so I decided to try and document the experience.