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Archive for February, 2008
Clock speed in VMware on Notebooks
28 Feb 2008Today I had a problem with my Ubuntu system running in a VMware Workstation on my notebook. First I noticed that every key I pressed occurred multiple times. Then the screensaver appeared very often after a short period of time. I looked for the reason and found out that the clock of the guest system [...]
I am a Guitar Hero (fan)
28 Feb 2008I am a huge fan of Guitar Hero. When I played it the first time some weeks ago all I could say for minutes was “Yeah! … Cool! … Yeah! … Wow!”. It has been a long time since a computer game surprised me in that kind of way. The version of Guitar Hero I [...]
New FindBugs version available
26 Feb 2008The final version of FindBugs 1.3.2 was released. I add FindBugs to every Eclipse installation because it is a very useful tool for finding possible problems in my code. The new version 1.3.2 includes a new view listing all bugs in a project by priority. See this blog post for more details.
VIM screencasts
19 Feb 2008Aaron postet two screencasts on his blog showing how to use VIM. I really love VIM – I thought about installing the viPlugin for my favorite IDE Eclipse some months ago. Now these videos made me think again – I think I will give it a try. Checkout the two casts: VIM Screencast 1 – [...]
EA BlackBerry Games site online
In: Blackberry|Fun
19 Feb 2008At CES Electronic Arts announced that they will produce games for BlackBerry devices. Now their site EA mobile is online. They are providing this special link for the Game Skate. Call it from your BlackBerry browser and download this (in my opinion) brilliant new kind of BlackBerry game. I already spent some time with it [...]
121 BlackBerry Tips
In: Blackberry
18 Feb 2008Amy sent me a cool link with a lot of useful BlackBerry tips. Check out The Power User’s BlackBerry Guide: 121 CrackBerry Tips, Hacks and Resources!
Mail server setup for Debian etch
13 Feb 2008I am running my own mail server now for over five years. There are a lot of good free email services out there but I am not satisfied with their spam filters. I am getting about 300 spam mails a day and with my current solution only one of them makes it into my inbox [...]
Using Apache FOP with Cooktop
In: Java
12 Feb 2008In one of my projects we use XSTL transformation and Apache FOP to generate PDF files from XML documents. I am using Cooktop as my favorite free XML/XSLT development and test environment for a long time now. A colleague made me aware that it is possible to make Cooktop use custom XSLT engines for transformation. [...]
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- tompson: Hi Roman, my main class is a groovy class [...]
- Roman Gonzales: Hey quick question: your main class is a java class that calls the groovy classes or is your main [...]
- Nathan Rodriguez: i am only using free virus scanners like avast and avira but they seem to be great tools though:;` [...]
- sim4000: Yay, it works. Thank you! [...]
- Ewan Matthews: there would be a great demand for mobile browsers in the coming years that is for sure.;'- [...]
- Create executable jar package with dependencies
- Issues with Mylyn and JIRA 4.1
- Equals and HashCode and Hibernate
- Using twhirl with StatusNet
- Problems connecting with jconsole to linux jvm
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express and facebook app
- Error code 1920 when installing VMware converter
- tightvnc messes up keyboard layout after Ubuntu upgrade
- The old Bold and the new Bold
- Windows Media player streaming problem
tOMPSON's tweets
- first time restoring new MacBook from a Time Capsule backup worked great! Time Machine FTW #fb
- Being a BlackBerry fan with an iPad I can not understand how people could live that long with an iPhone without multitasking #fb
- Can't wait for the iOS update for de iPad #fb
- Wow, The new official twitter client for the iPad os brilliant - though I think it violates some style guides #fb
- just uninstalled the Google Wave Notifier from Chrome - LOL
- I favorited a YouTube video -- Ed Byrne slates Alanis Morissette http://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg?a
- I'm at Il Teatro Antica Trattoria (Hamerlingerstr 46, Linz). http://4sq.com/7ccwyW
- so the spare parts for my wife's MacBook cost 1000 EUR and a new one the same? wtf #fb
- Livestream of Apple keynote works great so far, no bandwidth problem, looks great on the iPad #fb
- RT @timr: new post: More report options: Today we released a new version of timr including the long awaited feature ... http://bit.ly/9QqNgy