Tag Archives: maintenance

Build engineering

Posted on 19.7.2010 by Anteru (Updated on 6.11.2010)

Do you have one-click-builds for your whole project? That’s a good question (so good that you should ask it before you get employed), but if the answer is no, chances are high that your team has not dedicated enough time … Continue reading →

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Cannot connect to WPA-PSK2 protected WLAN on Linux …

Posted on 25.1.2010 by Anteru

The title says it all. I had a machine here with a really old WLAN adapter (Realtek RTL-8185L on a PCMCIA card), and it wouldn’t connect to my local WLAN when using WPA-PSK2. I just checked that WLAN was working … Continue reading →

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Changing XP from retail to OEM …

Posted on 18.1.2010 by Anteru (Updated on 6.9.2011)

Just recently I had to fix a PC with Windows XP. It turned out that the installed version was not “genuine”. Du’h, someone helpful re-installed Windows on the machine, but instead of using the original OEM which came with the … Continue reading →

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Code quality notes

Posted on 26.7.2008 by Anteru

During the last term, I’ve been coding quite a bit again. Read on for some stuff to keep in mind when writing code, and for some things you better avoid. War story one: I was debugging some math class which … Continue reading →

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