I have some kind of a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I like being up to speed on what people I know or once knew are up to and the network site allows to me to conveniently stay in contact with people without any effort on my part. That said, Facebook has a questionable reputation where [...]
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This will be one of those blog entries that I write primarily to document for myself some stuff I found out after some effort, but that might also be useful for others. When developing applications, I primarily use Java, mostly because it will do everything I want and it’s the language I’m most familiar with. [...]
Categorised as: cool stuff, howto, linux
I administrate a remote linux machine of someone I know who now and then needs me to help him out. To find out if applications actually work, I use X forwarding. To do that, the remote box has X forwarding enabled, by having this line in its /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes Then I use: me@localbox:~$ ssh [...]
After upgrading their Ubuntu 9.10 machine to 10.4 (Lucid Lynx), someone in my neighbourhood noticed that Flash had stopped working in Firefox. Googling around didn’t provide me with a solution, but reinstalling the plugin did the trick: # sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer # sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer
The weirdest thing happened while I was programming with my favorite IDE, Netbeans 6.8, today. When I work on big applications, I usually split them in two or three projects (usually model, view, controller). Then I import the projects in the main application project. At some point Netbeans suddenly told me it couldn’t find a [...]
My home router’s DHCP server has the bad habit of ignoring MAC addresses when handing out IPs, which means that every time it is reset for some reason, or a machine’s lease ends, it can get an entirely different IP . Since I have two machines with a wired connection in my network, one of [...]