vec2web is a dxf to png (and other format) convertor based on the QCAD libraries. I downloaded and compiled it. However when I ran it the text dimensions were missing. I discovered the reason for this is that vec2web needs to be able to find the fonts and resource in...
I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on a laptop. I installed 9.04 by doing a distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 8.04 and finally to 9.04. I tried to run wine recently and came up against this error: fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone This error seems to...
Update: This has been fixed in Ubuntu 9.04. Excellent! tsclient is a Microsoft Remote Desktop work-a-like for Linux only better (it supports VNC, RDP, XDMCP & ICA) The bug: On Ubuntu versions greater than 8.04 it has a _really_ annoying bug. I call it the "tsclient...
QCAD - Isometric Projections or "The coolest open source app in the universe" I used to do Tech Drawing at school and to do an Isometric Projection required all sorts of construction lines just to render a circle. Here is a sample of an isometric projection in QCAD....
Today I popped out of the office to pick up a Mobile Phone battery for a user. Got a call from another user saying they couldn't log in to our ERP. I was at least half an hour away. That was when I noticed a Free WIFI sign on the McDonald's restuarant window. Got...
The native file format in QCAD is DXF however many online resources provide downloads in DWG file format. For example I was looking for roofing iron profiles and found some in DWG format So how do you convert from DWG to DXF. I tried to download lx-viewer but it has...
"You ask her the time and she tells you how her watch is made"
I have a Weighbridge application at work that runs on top of Paradox databases. When you exit via the GUI say by clicking the cross in the top right or {ALT} {F4} it does the right thing and cleans up after itself as it closes. If you simply say pskill ProcessName...
Bluefish is a really cool "Web Development Studio" I find it's side pane CSS and HTML reference invaluable when trying to code HTML. It has recently been ported to Windows As it installs, everything pretty much works out of the box, but it's Linux heritage shows when...
I use WP-Syntax to highlight my code samples on this blog and I keep having to Google and go to the wp-syntax website to get the correct lang attribute value to put in my <pre lang="blah"></pre> tags So here they are abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada,...