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TotalFinder: Essential OSX Apps
Dec 23rd
There’s a number of small apps that are essential on my OSX Laptop. Along with a good launcher (the topic for another blog post maybe) is a Finder Add-on. While there’s a number of these available, the one I’ve found to like the most is TotalFinder. While the greatest feature of TotalFinder isn’t really a
LTSpice for Mac OSX
Jul 13th
After numerous requests from fellow engineering students with Macs, I created a winebottled version of LTSPice. This allows you to run LTSpice in OS X without having to boot a Windows VM (via Fusion, Parallels or whatever). The winebottle includes all the necessary binaries for Wine so it should work out of the box, so
Kinect Notes
May 23rd
Currently Under Development…Eventually a repository for my Kinect notes and progress. After getting the OpenKinect Driver working on OS X, the point cloud demo shows me looking like this:
Deterministic Human Behavior: Trying to Find Free Will
Apr 13th
*** This was a research paper I submitted for a college English course. None of the original text formatting carried over automatically and I’ve done my best to try and get it to how it was; however, I’m too lazy to go through and do all the underlining, italicizing, etc. I’ll eventually gets this
Absolute Position MIDI Controller for Controlling Tempo
Feb 3rd
In the last post I discussed the advantages and pitfalls of using ‘Midi Clock’ to control a sequencer or other device. I came to the conclusion that this would be the most desirable solution as it would allow for the simultaneous control of multiple devices (all with their clocks sync’ed) and support the greatest number
Controller Requirements and MIDI Protocol Info
Jul 8th
While delving into integrating an Ableton Live setup into my normal DJ routine, I’ve encountered a few issues that seem to be limiting a seamless transition from Ableton to vinyl and back. Mixing a record into an already playing ableton set is of no issue as this is the same as mixing a record into
L2/L3 Load Balancing with a Cisco L3 Switch
Oct 27th
Thanks to Tony Kapela for a cool load balancing technique that can be executed on a Cisco L3 Switch. The specific switch in this example is a Cisco 3550 running IOS version c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-35.SE. This should work on most current routing platforms (apparently including l3 switches). The 3550 edge switch, to which the webserver is directly