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If you receive such an error message from Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014, you might need to reinstall the VBA 7 modules. See http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item/print?siteID=123112&id=21910314&linkID=9242018 for more details. The short story is to shut down Inventor and reinstall the VBA 7 modules using either 3rdParty\x64\VBA\Vba7.MSI or 3rdParty\x86\VBA\Vba7.MSI from the installation media or from C:\Autodesk.

Yesterday I downgraded a student’s laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 7. The student was assigned a legit MS DreamSpark product key in case you were wondering.

I came across this post comparing ZFS to Btrfs. The post is undated and that makes it a bit hard to verify the claims against Btrfs. Although I’m partial towards ZFS, I hope Btrfs catches up. Meanwhile, maybe I should check out Btrfs for myself. Update 2013-12-05: Someone named “sasfater” wrote me an email today […]

I updated my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT virtual machine today. It reached r255120 and it’s running with vtnet as its virtual network interface under VirtualBox 4.2.16. I noticed the vtnet0 interface gained 10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. Previously the interface ran with only 1 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. The actual wire speed depends largely on the physical limitations of […]

Here’s a GNU Bison and GNU Flex version of my MMIX assembly language floating point number preprocessor. The code was developed using GNU Bison version 1.875d and GNU Flex version 2.5. This version allows for entering more complex expressions of floating point numbers involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Extending the grammar to cover trigonometric […]

Here’s the code for a C program I conceived during a rather boring night shift while performing national service some years back. The code was later refined using GNU Bison and GNU Flex for parsing the operand field, yielding the possibility of processing whole expressions involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Instead of specifying IEEE […]

I was looking at some old files and found these files containing MMIX assembly code. The first file is a program for converting angles from a single value to sexagesimal notation, and back. The second file is a program for calculating the area of a triangle. I have more MMIX code dating back at least […]

I’ve put WITH_ICONV=yes in my /etc/src.conf file on a few VMs running stable/9, and yes, I got burned. My beloved server named enterprise running stable/9 was also affected. :-/

Are you missing the down-arrow on the right hand side of the URL address field in Opera? That handy piece of GUI element makes it easy to remove entries from the URL history. According to this forum post, you can enable the down-arrow by visiting opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowDropdownButtonInAddressfield. Simply check the checkbox, hit the Save button, and […]

I’m following this thread with great interest, and I wanted to try bootparttest on one of my own computers.

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Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014: VBA failed to initialize. Please restart Inventor.

Samsung rocks — Dell and HP have something to learn

ZFS vs Btrfs

10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed in VirtualBox 4.2.16

MMIX assembly language floating point number preprocessor – GNU Bison and GNU Flex version

MMIX assembly language floating point number preprocessor – initial C version

dec2dms.mms and tri_area.mms

FreeBSD and WITH_ICONV

Missing the down-arrow on the right hand side of the URL address field in Opera?

bootparttest