Short IT recipes

Sometimes it is necessary to do some simple things, like replacing some words in given file, processing output of the Unix command. To such ...

After more then a week of using Firefox 2.0 on my Intel Mac X 10.4 I can say it is nice, especially spell checking. Nonetheless, it is not s...

In my everyday work I use Sun-Fire-V440 server. The main characteristics of this machine is the fact that it contains four processors, which...

Yesterday by a chance I went to Apple website and I found a sneak peak of Mac X 10.5 (Leopard). I have to admit that it looks impressive; n...

Today I received some audio files in Ogg Vorbis format. I use Mac X 10.4 , so I was very, very surprise that iTunes does not support Ogg f...

I do not know why, but one day my Gimp 2.2.10 on my Mac X changed its language from English to Japaneses. I do not know how it happened, b...

To measure execution time of any program under UNIX (Linux, Mac X, Solaris) one can use time command. For example >time ls >real 0...

This post is continuation of the former post concerning Matlab and Perl work with text files. Former program, reading rectangles.txt file c...

Matlab is a great tool when you work with mathematic related software like image processing (assuming that you have appropriate toolboxes, ...

I have just download Intel iMac version of Firefox 2.0 :-) After maybe two minutes of use, I have to say that one thing about this browser ...