Archives for 2011

• Java 3d in a NetBeans Platform Application

  November 12, 2011

  I had been planning on embedding hugely impressive 3D animations into a NetBeans Platform Application, and I was not going to be disappointed, so I fired up NetBeans and did it anyway. Here’s how.

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• Installing Arch on an Asus U36JC Notebook

  October 20, 2011

  Last weekend, I bought an Asus Pro36s notebook, also known as a U36JC. It weighs less than 1.5 kilos (that’s including batteries) and is somewhat smaller than the Vaio, which is just what I wanted.

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• Outlook territorialism

  September 21, 2011

  Yesterday the Microsoft Office 2003 installation at my work PC was updated to its 2007 incarnation. But when starting the new and shiny Outlook to check my calendar, I was presented this little gem of a dialogue box.

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• Boinc milestone

  September 10, 2011

  Another Boinc milestone for me: 250.000 points.

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• New Horizons Ice Hunters

  June 25, 2011

  Humans are better than computers at identifying Kuiper Belt Objects. Ice Hunters is a web application that lets the visitor identify these distant worlds of ice, thus helping out the scientists.

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• Native look and feel for Swing under Linux

  April 19, 2011

  This one is not really an eye-opener, but I use this blog to record and archive stuff I find out at some point, so here’s a post about getting NetBeans Platform Applications use GTK instead of Metal.

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• NASA is moving on. Finally.

  April 14, 2011

  A few days ago I had a nice discussion in a commenting thread on Wired, in response to an article about how uncertain the future of space flight is, now that the Space Shuttles are being mothballed.

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• Undead robot

  April 14, 2011

  I am clearly a Robot: law-abiding, dedicated and logical as well as stubborn, intractable and cold.

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• Elite

  April 14, 2011

  I received my OCJP in the mail.

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• A decade of cell phones

  April 11, 2011

  I got a new phone. It’s my first real smart phone, it has Android and two CPU cores. I like it.

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• The dist-upgrade button

  April 04, 2011

  A couple of years ago, when someone in my neighbourhood’s Windows XP laptop became frustratingly slow and unstable, I convinced her to install Ubuntu.

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• Recycle fail

  April 01, 2011

  Speaking of inconsistencies, here’s a nice one that brightened up my morning today.

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• Windows 7: still an inconsistent mess

  March 31, 2011

  Since I started at my new job, I have been working on a Windows 7 workstation. I’m forcing myself not to take the easy path and try to deal with it.

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• Deploying EJB3 In Action code examples in NetBeans

  March 25, 2011

  I’m currently learning Enterprise Java Beans 3 using Debu Panda et al.’s book EJB3 in Action. The material is not very hard but there’s lots of stuff to memorize, and the best way to do that is by running the code examples and trying to change it (and break it).

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• Scry and eregi deprecation

  February 09, 2011

  One of the downsides of using software that is not being maintained anymore, is that when dependencies change, its users have to adapt the software.

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• Scripting Scry

  January 12, 2011

  Last night I wrote a small bash script that allows me to publish a collection of pictures on my hard drive to the Scry installation on my server. Here is is.

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• Arch Linux: an end to my distro shuffle!

  January 10, 2011

  For some time now I’ve been meaning to write about Arch, the Linux distribution I’ve been using for almost a year now.

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• Scry

  January 10, 2011

  Scry is the simplest PHP photo album you’ll ever love.

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