Simo Virokannas

Writings and ramblings

Author: Simo

  • 4 new tracks

    4 new tracks

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    Here’s some new music: Vector Strongly influenced by Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Vector HD1 Tried to capture the classic feeling of Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire. HD1 Bronze Tries to be like the stuff they play in saunas at Impuls+. Bronze Puzzle Older track, found it lying around unfinished. Puzzle

  • Javascript, Base64, PHP, UTF-8

    Javascript, Base64, PHP, UTF-8

    I’m working on a small application that communicates through JavaScript to a PHP script, and usually the data contains text in UTF-8 format to make everything as compatible as possible. The text in UTF-8 format doesn’t go too well into an AJAX call GET URL. So it has to be further encoded with an encoding…

  • Xcode 4.0.2 and 4.1 distributed building

    Xcode 4.0.2 and 4.1 distributed building

    For some reason, the distributed building system in Xcode 4.x seems to be broken. You can search for distcc servers in your network, define them, turn on distributed building, but still it does everything on localhost. If you take a closer look at the build log, it says: setenv DISTCC_HOSTS localhost ..so can’t expect much…

  • OSX Wine Keyboard layout

    OSX Wine Keyboard layout

    This one applies at least to the OSX version of WINE. One good frontend is PlayOnMac, which, despite the name, also runs other software than just games. It is similar to WineBottler in many ways. Now on a Mac, usually your locale is an UTF-8 one. This doesn’t go well with Windows software. So here’s…

  • Dashcode, part I

    Dashcode, part I

    As a regular Xcode user, I used to wonder a lot about Dashcode that comes bundled with it. At a first glance, it seemed like a workshop for osx dashboard widgets – which it is, but recently I learned it is a whole lot more. Sometimes there’s a need to build some small websites for…

  • Disks from PC to Amiga 500

    Disks from PC to Amiga 500

    Building the connection Note! More detailed and better instructions are found at ADF Sender Terminal pages. This page is a simplified version of the instructions found there. Use a normal 25-9 pin null modem cable. Example for the wiring is found here. PC: Download ADF Sender Terminal and install it. You can use ADFST to upload…