No Gnus v0.13 is released
It seems to depend on EIEIO ("Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects"), a new CLOS implementation; apparently EIEIO must get installed manually.
EIEIO in turn is part of CEDET ("Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools").
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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? ;-)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
movie: The Next Three Days (2010)
The Next Three Days (2010)
I really enjoyed this movie tonight at the Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. In English of course ;-)
I really enjoyed this movie tonight at the Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. In English of course ;-)
Egyptian Cabinet officially resigns after days of protests – but Mubarak stays in office
read the article at The Jerusalem Post!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
my Adium Skype problem
When I try to let Adium connect to my Skype account, it says this after a while:
Within Skype under Account -> Manage API Clients, I have to check, that Adium is "Allowed to use Skype". That was certainly checked before, and my combination of Adium and Skype was rather useful and in use for a couple of weeks, but I guess, my attempted upgrade to Skype-5 changed that. I am curious, whether Adium also works with Skype-5. (But I still don't like the Skype-5's huge profile icons.)
skype (Skype): ErrorI searched the web for this text, and I found the solution on adiumxtras.com.
Could not connect to Skype process.
Skype not running?
Within Skype under Account -> Manage API Clients, I have to check, that Adium is "Allowed to use Skype". That was certainly checked before, and my combination of Adium and Skype was rather useful and in use for a couple of weeks, but I guess, my attempted upgrade to Skype-5 changed that. I am curious, whether Adium also works with Skype-5. (But I still don't like the Skype-5's huge profile icons.)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
.properties - Java's Property Resource Bundles
.properties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- For Western Europeans it's quite comfortable to be able to edit .properties files in ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1.
- The 1st German .properties file, that I came across, was actually written using '\u00HH' for the German umlauts, with HH being the hexadecimal digits of the Latin-1 encoding of the character.
I looked up the Wikipedia article on Unicode, and I learned that this is a perfectly legal encoding of the Latin-1 character set, i.e. the 1st 256 characters of Latin-1 and Unicode (resp. its "BMP") are the same. - ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
how to burst a PDF document into single pages (etc.)
This command line shows, how to get the output files named your way:
$ pdftk … burst output 'page.%02d.pdf'
Split Select Pages from Multiple PDFs into a New Document:
$ pdftk A=one.pdf B=two.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output combined.pdf
Select a single page into a new document:
Please find more information (like examples, man page, …) on pdftk here!
$ pdftk … burst output 'page.%02d.pdf'
Split Select Pages from Multiple PDFs into a New Document:
$ pdftk A=one.pdf B=two.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output combined.pdf
Select a single page into a new document:
$ pdftk A=one.pdf cat A130 output one.p130.pdf
Please find more information (like examples, man page, …) on pdftk here!
Monday, January 3, 2011
.DS_Store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.DS_Store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From www.greci.cc:
By default, MacOS X will create a .DS_Store file in every folder it accesses, while this is ok in OS X it may be annoying for network shares. To prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes execute this from a Terminal:
From www.greci.cc:
By default, MacOS X will create a .DS_Store file in every folder it accesses, while this is ok in OS X it may be annoying for network shares. To prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes execute this from a Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The SAXON XSLT and XQuery Processor
The SAXON XSLT and XQuery Processor
Downloaded Saxon-HE from the above URL on my Linux box, decided to go for the Java variant, installed saxonhe.jar and "the resources" into /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3.
I wasn't able to browse the documentation below saxon-resources9-3/doc with Chrome-10, so I use Firefox-3.6 for that.
But I also read the documentation here.
This is from "Getting started with Saxon on the Java platform", adapted for my Unix-like platform:
More command lines tries from there:
(to be continued)
Downloaded Saxon-HE from the above URL on my Linux box, decided to go for the Java variant, installed saxonhe.jar and "the resources" into /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3.
I wasn't able to browse the documentation below saxon-resources9-3/doc with Chrome-10, so I use Firefox-3.6 for that.
But I also read the documentation here.
This is from "Getting started with Saxon on the Java platform", adapted for my Unix-like platform:
$ java -cp /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Query -t '-qs:current-date()'Well, no error messages. I like that. Looks like I got all preconditions fulfilled.
More command lines tries from there:
$ cd /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3
$ java -cp /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Transform -t -s:samples/data/books.xml -xsl:samples/styles/books.xsl -o:$HOME/temp.html
$ java -cp /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Query -t -s:samples/data/books.xml -q:samples/query/books-to-html.xq > $HOME/temp.html
(to be continued)
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