Monthly Archives: January 2015

Here is a step by step guide to set up a new development environment from scratch, to get an Android project up and running in an emulator.

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Adaptec 6805e – Expanding a Logical Device with 4 SSDs

Aside September 28, 2012 Mike Leave a comment

This post is a quick run through on expanding a logical device using Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM). This feature is great for expanding the capacity of your RAID as is an online resize. This means that you do not lose access to your data during the process. On the other hand, it is not powerful enough to expand the array to fewer number of disks. Continue reading Adaptec 6805e – Expanding a Logical Device with 4 SSDs →

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Rogers mobile speed test results with HTC One on LTE

Aside May 20, 2013 Mike Leave a comment

The new HTC One gets 10mbps download and 1.5mbps upload on Rogers network.

Being a Wind Mobile customer for more than a year and a half now, I have always been disappointed with their mobile speed (specifically the upload rate).

Today, I went to Vaughan Mills Mall where they had a display for the HTC One. After talking with the sales person for a few minutes, I convinced him to demonstrate the speed test for Rogers which he was using as a carrier for the new device. Continue reading Rogers mobile speed test results with HTC One on LTE →

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Introduction to command line programming in C++ using Visual Studio 2012

Aside January 8, 2013 Mike Leave a comment

The main issue I have with Visual Studio is the lack of intuition it possesses when creating simple command line programs.

First to create a new console application:

File > New > Project >Visual C++ > Win32 > Console Application

YOUR CODE HERE!

Here is where things get annoying: Continue reading Introduction to command line programming in C++ using Visual Studio 2012 →

C++programming Visual Studio 2012

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Bitcoin: Data Cost

Aside October 3, 2012 Mike Leave a comment

Somehow my blkindex.dat file became corrupt the other day so I got a little nervous as I remember that one .dat file contained all my bitcoins – within a split second I realized this is the wallet.dat file so I quickly backed it up again for added piece of mind. While in the bitcoin data directory I noticed the size of the blkindex.dat file was over 1 gigabyte! And then the blk0001.dat was 2GB, blk0002.dat was another GB! Let’s not forget about debug.log – another gigabyte. Over 5GB to be able to use the currency? And how many people are using the currency? A lot. This is a problem that is inherently created due to the nature of the currency. But what are some possible solutions? Continue reading Bitcoin: Data Cost →