DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Packaging up a Java application on OSX with recent versions of Java
So, I’ve started hacking on a very, very old project of mine that is a Swing-based Java application. I got it running again on OSX but things have changed a lot since I last was doing much coding on it. It used to be that Apple vended Java for OSX, but now Oracle does, and […]
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Excruciatingly slow Swing performance while loading / painting images on a Macbook Pro Retina 13″ under Java 1.8
So, in my previous post I mentioned that I was doing some profiling of a Java Swing application. The application was super slow. An operation that used to take less than a second (basically loading an ImageIcon and painting it) would take about three minutes (I timed it) under Java 1.8.0_31 on OSX 10.9.5. It […]
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Profiling in Java
I’ve recently started doing some manga translation again, but what that means is that I’ve tried to get my GMAO program running on my newer MacBook. Just trying to run the OSX app that I packaged a few years back brought up a dialog box asking me to install the 1.6 JRE. I don’t really […]
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2015 Austin and Dallas trip
At the end of January, I attended the AAAI conference in Austin, TX. Since my father lives in Dallas, it was a great chance to bring the family and take a bit of a vacation. So, we all flew out from Tokyo to Dallas, about a 12 hour flight. That is quite a bit longer […]
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What is my mail server rejecting?
I’ve recently migrated my hosting from one VPS to a new host. It was a lot more work than it should have been. I’ll try to be much better at keeping my host up to date and maintained. At any rate, I finally have my mailserver up and running on the new host. I implemented […]
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2014 Year in Games Review
Snapshot of Games I’ve played from Steam Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall Bastion Divinity Original Sin Wasteland 2 I thought it would be interesting to look at what games I played this year. I don’t mean things like Basketball (which I did play, about once a month with the Amazon JP basketball club) but games on the […]
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A trip to Nikko with the family
Toushougu Shrine Dad, Dave, Lisa, and Alan at Nikko Toushougu Shrine The carved sleeping cat up there is famous for some reason. Alan was enjoying himself, even if I did have to carry him a bit. We saw some of the beautiful fall colors as well. Alan also ran around a lot on his own. […]
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A Business Trip to China
The CCTV building in Beijing. Can you see the air? You normally shouldn’t be able to see air. I really liked the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. The Chinese Army have some hoops set up in the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City is amazing: huge, old, awesome architecture, and better history. Also, crowds! And look […]
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The Magician Trilogy
Lev Grossman’s “The Magician’s Land” was recently released. I really enjoyed the first two books in the trilogy, The Magicians, and The Magician King. I was looking forward to the conclusion of the trilogy quite a bit, and in preparation I re-read the entire series. It is rare for me to go back and re-read […]
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Updating my desktop
The main thing I use my desktop computer for is streaming NBA games via NBA International League Pass. My desktop machine is pretty old, it dates back to at least December 2007 and probably a bit before that, running an Intel Quad Core Q6600 from that time. It has been having a bit of trouble […]
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Family Trip to Ishigaki
Last weekend, the family went for a trip to Ishigaki, Okinawa. I had never been to Okinawa at all before, and was pretty excited for the trip. Our friend Mibe was getting married, so we flew out Saturday, the wedding was Sunday, and then we stayed through Wednesday. Ishigaki is about as far South East […]
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Ugly Japanese fonts in Emacs on OSX
At some point, when I started to use Japanese in Emacs on my Mac (currently emacs verison 24.3.1) Japanese text turned childlike. It is annoying. I tracked down the problem: if I do something like M-x list-fontsets and the M-x describe-fontset with a likely candidate, I see something like: … .. 〿 (#x3000 .. […]
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