Author Archives: Svenn-Arne Dragly

Internal licensing error

What do you say? Is there something wrong with the internal license? Well, just change the name of that client, and we’ll be alright! Continue reading

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Skip the packaging step in Qt Creator 2.0

Qt Creator finally has support for packages, but now it is lacking the support to disable them instead. Continue reading

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Connect to your N900 while developing via usb

Sometimes it feels good to be a bit lazy and let your OS do that boring terminal-typing for you whenever you connect a new device. Continue reading

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Loading wavefront .obj files in Qt’s OpenGL ES

I’ve been looking all over the web for a Qt library for loading files exported from Blender into OpenGL. Since I didn’t find anything I figured I would create a library myself. Even though I didn’t find anything specifically about … Continue reading

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Moving around and going to github

I don’t think you’ll notice, but I’ve just moved this page permanently to dragly.org. There seems to have been some problems getting this site indexed properly when it was hosted on a subdomain of dragly.com. To get the site ut … Continue reading

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How to draw a spring in Inkscape

I’ve been working on some free-body diagrams lately, and in my last paper I needed to draw a spring. Since I didn’t find any simple way to do this, I thought I should give a quick tutorial here. First of … Continue reading

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Why I’m not using Ubuntu One

Recently I’ve had some issues with my previous solution for synchronizing files between my computers. I used to have an SSH server which I placed all my files on, and usually I edited them directly on this server. Whenever needed … Continue reading

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Python deleted my vector values

Sometimes scripting languages can be a real annoyance. Why? Because when you get as much help as you do with for instance Python, you also lose a lot of control. Being used to scripting languages like PHP, I made the … Continue reading

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Getting started with encrypted e-mail using Thunderbird and Enigmail

E-mail encryption is getting more and more important as more information is accessible to your ISP, e-mail provider or even your government. In this tutorial I won’t be going into any of the principles for why you should encrypt your … Continue reading

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Fixing a bug with python-visual in Ubuntu Karmic

I was preparing to do some tasks in my physics course today, and experienced a rather annoying problem when attempting to use the python-visual package in Ubuntu. There seems to be a bug in Ubuntu Karmic which results in the … Continue reading

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