If you owned a personal computer in the 80s and played computer games, you probably played at least one Infocom text-based adventure game like Zork or (my personal favorite) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Known as interactive fiction, or IF, these games used the most powerful computers on the planet for their processing engines [...]
Archive of posts filed under the code category.
Galleon’s weather app is dead
For the past few years I’ve been trying my best to keep Galleon’s weather app running, but it appears the end-of-life for it has arrived.
Another Galleon (local radar) weather fix
It’s been almost three years since I last fixed the local radar image in Galleon’s Weather application. Earlier this week TCF user ajayabb pointed out that just like last time, the image was showing N/A again. I tracked down the bug to a change in weather.com’s HTML page and was able to make a simple [...]
Quick fix for saving Galleon’s music player options
I tend to watch for Galleon-related threads on TCF and came across this one earlier this week. Basically it was reported that after making changes in the Music Player options, those changes would not be saved. I don’t really use the music player options but always enjoy a debugging challenge so decided to check it [...]
Binary birthdays
My little sister will turn 30 next year on 10/10/10, which is pretty cool on a number (no pun intended) of levels, mainly 10 + 10 + 10 = 30. This got me to thinking that being born on the first day of October, I’ve never really had one of those cool birthdays like 01/02/03, [...]
Cookin’ up some Wii homebrew
I saw this post on Lifehacker yesterday about installing homebrew on the Wii without needing to use the Twilight Princess hack and decided, what the heck, let’s give it a try! Wow, talk about amazingly simple. Only minutes after downloading the necessary files, I had the Homebrew Channel running on my Wii. After doing a [...]
Galleon 2.5.5 is out
The new version of Galleon has been officially released. Here are the release notes (items in bold are my own personal contributions): added java parameter to favor IPv4 (should eliminate the need for disabling IPv6 on linux installs) added runlevel 2 to linux Makefile (for distros that use update-rc.d) fixed Movies app so it works [...]
Minor fixes for Galleon’s ToGo app
It’s been a while since I last posted but I’ve been sick for the last week with a really bad chest cold. I actually stayed home from work on Wednesday (taking the rare, for me, sick day), slept pretty much the entire day and still really didn’t feel any better. I’ve still got the cough, [...]
Galleon 2.5.4 is out
John has released Galleon 2.5.4. Here’s what’s new, from the release notes: Fix ToGo looping bug on null recording date (1811137) Added user-selectable range for local radar image (100, 300, 600 miles) in Weather app auto-subdirectory publishing for GoBack, avoids the need to do it yourself and also avoids bugs in TiVo folder navigation in [...]
My enhancement to Galleon’s weather app (officially, this time)
Last month I added a small enhancement to Galleon’s weather app that allowed for a user-selectable range for the radar image (instead of using the default 600-mile one). I published my source code changes and the new jar file here on my blog. Now earlier this month, jtkohl released Galleon 2.5.3 which contained a fix [...]
