Linux

No Chinese Fonts on XBMC Eden 11.0

Simple solution. Many posts online points to replacing fonts etc but with Eden, the included Arial has unicode support. You just had a shitty theme with custom non-unicode font. Just go to the skinning section of your theme (skins can change the hierarchy) and change the font from default to Arial. Easy!

Solve XBMC Tearing on Ubuntu 12.04

Definitely not an exhaustive fix but did fix it for me on a Zotac ID80 with Nvidia GT 520m. Disable composite with

sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite

Ctrl-Alt Hotkey Conflict with Virtual Machines

On most virtualisation software like VMWare’s etc, the guest machine’s hotkeys which requires ctrl-alt (such as ctrl-alt-f1 etc for tty change in Linux) can be blocked because ctrl-alt is used to release mouse/keyboard with the VM software. If you…

Free OBD2 Software for Mac

If you just picked up a generic OBD-II — USB interface on eBay and have a Mac, it is true that it is generally more convenient to access these hardware on Windows. Even embedded device developers tend to use Windows to develop against these generic FT232R chip based USB-UART…