Fink FAQ: installing a few "unstable" packages from "fink"
I don't exactly remember, when I configured fink to also install "unstable" packages, but now I think, that created a terrible mess on my computer. I ran "fink configure" today, and disabled the installation of "unstable" packages there. I hope, fink will work much smoother from now on. No more md5sum mismatches …
Monday, February 28, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
No Gnus v0.13 is released
Monday, February 21, 2011
movie: Unknown (2011) - IMDb
Unknown (2011) - IMDb
The location of the thriller is Berlin; the main characters are played by Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
The way from the Adlon hotel to the Tegel airport does not go through Oberbaumbrücke, where the car dumps into the rive – but then: who minds this?
The location of the thriller is Berlin; the main characters are played by Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
The way from the Adlon hotel to the Tegel airport does not go through Oberbaumbrücke, where the car dumps into the rive – but then: who minds this?
RVM: Ruby Version Manager
http://rvm.io (!!! worth having a look there for the most up-to-date installation procedure !!!)
Allows you to work very well with more than one ruby installation, just like App::perlbrew for perl.
The rvm command is implemented through a lot of bash functions.
The PragProg ruby3 and the jruby book both talk about rvm, and it looks, as if rvm is really quite helpful, if you deal with more than one ruby interpreter.
I installed rvm locally on an openSUSE-11.3 system and also remotely (git-based), and also on Mac OS X 10.6.6 (not git-based (yet)).
Update 2011-02-22:
Output from my $HOME/.bashrc disturbed the smooth execution of rvm, I had to remove that output (although I really liked that).
Update 2011-07-15 – how to upgrade:
$ rvm get stable
$ rvm reload
$ rvm list known
$ rvm list
$ rvm install jruby-1.6.99999
$ rvm install ruby-1.9.99999
$ rvm all do gem install xml-simple
$ …
Update 2012-01-… – trouble with "get head"!!!
Allows you to work very well with more than one ruby installation, just like App::perlbrew for perl.
The rvm command is implemented through a lot of bash functions.
The PragProg ruby3 and the jruby book both talk about rvm, and it looks, as if rvm is really quite helpful, if you deal with more than one ruby interpreter.
I installed rvm locally on an openSUSE-11.3 system and also remotely (git-based), and also on Mac OS X 10.6.6 (not git-based (yet)).
Update 2011-02-22:
Output from my $HOME/.bashrc disturbed the smooth execution of rvm, I had to remove that output (although I really liked that).
Update 2011-07-15 – how to upgrade:
$ rvm get stable
$ rvm reload
$ rvm list known
$ rvm list
$ rvm install jruby-1.6.99999
$ rvm install ruby-1.9.99999
$ rvm all do gem install xml-simple
$ …
Update 2012-01-… – trouble with "get head"!!!
$ rvm get head # looks broken, avoid it for the time being!
This really caused me a lot of grief and fear.
$ rvm get stable # better for me
Update 2013-09-30
(Nowadays) before running rvm, you need to run some initialisation code:
source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
This really caused me a lot of grief and fear.
$ rvm get stable # better for me
Update 2013-09-30
(Nowadays) before running rvm, you need to run some initialisation code:
source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
installing Chromium snapshots
snapshots on build.chromium.org
Execute the provided $CHROMIUM_INSTALL_DIR/chrome-wrapper instead of the binary executable, it will create necessary symlinks to system libraries.
After unpacking the zipped snapshot file on my openSUSE Linux system, privileges were wrong:
files and directories were only readable, writable, and executable for the owner, which was root;
As a very quick solution I made "myself" the owner :
$ chown -R myself $CHROMIUM_INSTALL_DIR
Of course there are better solutions than this, e.g. like this one:
$ cd $CHROMIUM_INSTALL_DIR
$ chmod -R a+r .
$ find . | while read f; do ! test -L "$f" && test -x "$f" && chmod --changes a+x "$f"; done
Execute the provided $CHROMIUM_INSTALL_DIR/chrome-wrapper instead of the binary executable, it will create necessary symlinks to system libraries.
After unpacking the zipped snapshot file on my openSUSE Linux system, privileges were wrong:
files and directories were only readable, writable, and executable for the owner, which was root;
As a very quick solution I made "myself" the owner :
$ chown -R myself $CHROMIUM_INSTALL_DIR
Of course there are better solutions than this, e.g. like this one:
$ cd $CHROMIUM_INSTALL_DIR
$ chmod -R a+r .
$ find . | while read f; do ! test -L "$f" && test -x "$f" && chmod --changes a+x "$f"; done
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
xpdf: Error (...): Missing 'endstream'
There are a few PDF documents around here, that I can read with Acrobat Reader w/o problems, but xpdf and its companions moan. I guess, that's because they got modified and a little destroyed using Acrobat X Pro.
I used pdftk to get rid of that problem: first output/uncompress, than output/compress again:
$ pdftk x.pdf output \
x.uncompressed.pdf uncompress
$ pdftk x.uncompressed.pdf output \
x.recompressed.pdf compress
I used pdftk to get rid of that problem: first output/uncompress, than output/compress again:
$ pdftk x.pdf output \
x.uncompressed.pdf uncompress
$ pdftk x.uncompressed.pdf output \
x.recompressed.pdf compress
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
"pdftohtml" vs. DRM
A project of mine involves extracting strings and other details from PDF files using "pdftohtml -xml".
A plain "pdftohtml -xml" refuses to read PDF files with set copy-protection bits set. But if you add "-nodrm" on the command line, it reads them anyway, but it mentions the problem on STDERR.
Monday, February 7, 2011
XSLT Questions and Answers - FAQ.
XSLT Questions and Answers - FAQ.
very nice, very helpful!!
helped me to create "<![CDATA[…]]" into XML output, which isn't trivial to do.
very nice, very helpful!!
helped me to create "<![CDATA[…]]" into XML output, which isn't trivial to do.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
APRESS.COM : TDG to JasperReports
APRESS.COM : The Definitive Guide to JasperReports : 9781590599273
ordered it as used book via amazon,
got it as companion e-book from apress.
ordered it as used book via amazon,
got it as companion e-book from apress.
APRESS.COM : TDG to iReport
APRESS.COM : The Definitive Guide to iReport : 9781590599280
got it as companion e-book from apress,
what happened to the paper back actually? ;-)
got it as companion e-book from apress,
what happened to the paper back actually? ;-)
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