Some people like to say the internet is forever. Unfortunately, it’s not. I recently needed to track down a 256 color Windows system palettes from the Windows 95/98 era. In less than 20 years, the internet has all but forgotten what the color palette might have been. This is my best attempt at reconstructing it [...]
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Windows 8-bit 256 color palette
December 16, 2011 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
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JAVA Diamond Square Generator
October 27, 2010 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
For a proof-of-concept GLSL shader I’ve been working on, I needed a random Diamond Square texture as input; a little bit of work yielded me this JAVA applet, which I then was able to easily fine-tune for my needs: Source Code: (Download)
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Magic Triangle w/Kerberos in OS X 10.6
September 23, 2010 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
I was recently handed the task of integrating Mac OS X 10.6 into our so-called Magic Triangle authentication environment. To make things more interesting, Macs here are treated as UNIX workstations, and thus not bound to AD. A quick search on Google yielded a long discussion on Kerberos support (or not) in Mac OS X [...]
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Distributing a single screen saver for 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6
June 5, 2010 by Mathew Eis. 2 Comments
In an earlier post, I discussed some Xcode settings that would simplify creating a Universal Binary screensaver that would run on all three versions of Mac OS X. Since that post, I’ve run into some problems and had some feedback, and discovered additional possible problems and solutions. First off, there are a confusing number of [...]
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ClockBox 1.0 Released
April 16, 2010 by Mathew Eis. 4 Comments
ClockBox 1.0 has been released. To celebrate this, I’ll be giving away free registrations to the first 10 “Beta Testers” to try it out and give me their thoughts and any suggestions for improvement. To be eligible, you must leave your feedback in a comment below, and include the type of Mac you’re running, and [...]