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annoying things in GIT

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:27 +0100

git does not display moves per default.

Workaround:



git config alias.lof "log --follow"

Formatting Dates in JExcel

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:24:50 +0100

Jexcel has an annoying Feature: It exports Dates always as UTC.

They have published some kind of workaround for reading Excelfiles, but it does not work for Writing Excel files.

My workaround:



TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();

int offset = tz.getOffset(date.getTime());

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();

cal.setTime(date);

cal.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, offset);

DateTime datetime = new DateTime(j,i, cal.getTime());

WritableCellFormat cf = new WritableCellFormat(df);

datetime.setCellFormat(cf);

Useful Thunderbird Addons

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:24:28 +0100

* Display Mail User Agent
* Enigmail
* Lightning
* SmartTemplate

On Kubuntu:
* Theme Font & Size Changer

Things not working in Ubuntu oneirc

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:57:54 +0100

* Upgrading the flashplugin. Solution: deinstall the flashplugin before doing a system upgrade

* Nvidia-Twinview + unity. Solution: Don't use unity
* Migrating .kde from 4.6 to 4.7: So far none, i made a new user
* Booting is hanging for 2minutes if there is no network connection.
Solution: So far none.

Resume: Don't upgrade now

Modifying Keyboard layouts on Ubuntu

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:03:29 +0100

1. Modify the layouts in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
2. Delete xkm files in /var/lib/xkb/*
3. Call setxkbmap

All the tutorials on the internet don't mention the xkm files, so it took me some time time to find out, why my changes were not applied.

jboss5 + seam on FreeBSD

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:49:29 +0100

Install jboss5 port
ln -sf /var/jboss5 /usr/local/share/jboss5/server

edit /etc/rc.conf:

jboss5_enable="YES"
jboss5_jvm_opts="-server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m \
-Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true \
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 \
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 \
-Djava.awt.headless=true"

Notice the jboss.bind.address and java.awt.headless=true (to prevent annoying warnings about missing X11).

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf:
```
kern.ps_arg_cache_limit=1024
```
Necessary for the shutdown script to work
Add
```
jboss.home=/usr/local/share/jboss5
```
to seam's build.properties
...to be continued

New tool discovered: pftop

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:52:41 +0100

Long time no blog...

Today i discovered a nifty litte tool: pftop written by Can Erkin Acar lets you monitor network connections on your pf firewall.

MT 5.02

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:59:19 +0100

I am considering dropping maintainership, since i will not have much time the next months.

MT 5.01

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:34:20 +0100

Another major release of Movable Type. This is the obligatory testposting.

The webfrontend seems to look more clear, but it feels again very slow and bloaty.

Bustraveling in Turkey

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:20:50 +0100

I recently traveled a week in Turkey by bus. Here are my experiences:

Metro: Traveld Kapıkule/Edirne-Istanbul, Kapıkule/Edirne-Bursa. Sales Office Experience: . At the Metro Haskovo Counter they speak understandable Turkish and are also very friendly. At the Edirne Counter (Metro Volkan) personal was very stressed and unfriendly. Avoid travelling to or from Edirne with Metro anyway, the bus stops somewhere on the highway, if it stops (In my case it didn't which resulted in some adventourus hitchhiking to Haskovo).

Ulusoy: Traveled Bursa-Ankara. Sales Office Bursa was friendly, but the Conductor was not very friendly and threw his garbage out into the nature. Ulusoy uses its own otogar in Ankara, which is not really convenient.

Kamil Koc: Traveled Ankara-Canakkale. Not the fastes but the most luxurious bus with personal TV stations and a big plus for the head phones.

Canakkale Truva/Soma Seyahat: Traveled Canakkale-Edirne: Unprofessional counter personal. Suicidal driver. I am lucky i survived.

MT 4.31 released

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:07:11 +0100

If everything works, port will be upgraded in a few minutes.

Movable Type 2.61 released

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:27:18 +0100

Fighting for (battery) power

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:24:17 +0100

Alexander Motin describes in this useful post how to save power on FreeBSD laptops.

It makes me want a FreeBSD laptop again....

MT 4.25 released.

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:00:07 +0100

Testentry. If it works, the FreeBSD port will be upgraded soon.

last.fm wants my $$$

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:24:30 +0100

Since i am not living in de/uk/US last.fm wants to force me to subscribe again.

Probably i will spend some minutes on trying to get the last.fm proxy working on my server.

But because most of the users with similar or interesting taste don't live in the three markets and the music catalogue will probably also focus on the three big markets. I guess last.fm will be boring in the future.

Looking for alternatives now...