Zwong

I just spend something like two hours trying to checkout the jSchedule code from my SVN repository without success. I´m at university in front of a WinXP machine.
This was the error message:

svn: Can't open file 'G:\\workspace\\jSchedule\\src\\jschedule\\main\\constraints\\.svn\\tmp\\text-base\\Con.java.svn-base'

Well, after some time I found out that for some f***ing reason it is not possible to create files called “con.*” on windows. Too bad, that my class was called “Con.java”….

The explanation is here.

Another week is over and here’s another release of your friendly note taking application Conboy. As usual the details are available here.

New features are:

• Support for the fullscreen button
• Creating nested bullet lists is now possible
• Increasing and decreasing the depth of bullets is working
• Pressing enter at the end of a list item creates a new list item on the same level
• There are now 3 different bullet characters for different levels
• When opening a note, it is automatically scrolled to the cursor position
• It’s now possible to first select a text style and then write using this style
• Automatic creation of bullet lists if line starts with a dash (-) or asterix (*)
• Cleaned up the user interface
• Added text sizes “small”, “normal”, “large” and “huge” to the list of text styles

I hope to have a somewhat feature complete version with 0.5. This is without syncing. Then once that’s done I will consider it 1.0. Hope that’s soon

I just finished version 0.2 of Conboy. Details and discussion can be found on here.

I still have to work out one official description which I can use on all pages where I have to write release notes. ATM my working draft is this:

Conboy is a note taking application. It is designed to be easy to use – yet powerful. It can read and write the Tomboy file format to be compatible with Tomboy on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Well, not perfect, but for today it’ll do.

Here is a quick list of changes and some screenshots:

• Reading, writing and displaying of all Tomboy notes is now possible
• Added support for UTF-8 reading and writing
• Added a nice menu
• Added keyboard shortcuts
• On startup the last edited note is shown automatically
• The list of all notes is now sorted by change date
• Many internal refactoring

After a good week of coding I just released Conboy 0.1. Conboy is a note taking application that can read and write Tomboy files. There is still a lot to do, but the basics are working.
More details and the discussion can be found on internettablettalk.

While digging around old stuff I found a small project which was part of one of our computer science lectures during summer 2005. The project was done by two friends of mine and me.

The task was to get serialization to a JVM that does not support reflection (which normally is needed to do serialization). These types of JVMs can be found on mobile or embedded devices with very limited resources.

Our solution was to develop a preprocessor using static meta programming with OpenJava (now OJ). Basically this preprocessor adds a serialize() and a deserialize() method to all serializable classes which then take care of the actual serialization process. Sounds easy. Well actually it’s not that easy, if you’re interested just have have a look at the code or the documentation.

The project is called SWREnhancer and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Here are the files: src jar doc [de]

I just build a small home server based on a Jetway mini-ITX board. I think the following sensors.conf is quite accurate and might be helpful to someone. Don’t forget to adjust to your setup – especially the alarms and ignores.

#/etc/sensors.conf chip "f71805f-*"
# Voltages
label in0 "Vcc"
label in1 "Vcore"
label in2 "Vram"
label in3 "+3.3V"
label in4 "+5V"
label in5 "+12V"
label in6 "3VSB"
label in7 "Vbat"
label in8 "5VSB"
# in0 is scaled internally
compute in2  @*(1+150/100), @/(1+150/100)
compute in3  @*(1+200/100), @/(1+200/100)
compute in4  @*(1+200/47),  @/(1+200/47)
compute in5  @*(1+200/20),  @/(1+200/20)
compute in6  @*(1+200/100), @/(1+200/100)
compute in7  @*(1+200/100), @/(1+200/100)
compute in8  @*(1+200/47),  @/(1+200/47)
# in0 is the chip's own VCC.
set in0_min  3.3 * 0.95
set in0_max  3.3 * 1.05
set in1_min  0.84 * 0.95
set in1_max  0.84 * 1.05
set in2_min  1.8 * 0.95
set in2_max  1.8 * 1.05
set in3_min  3.3 * 0.95
set in3_max  3.3 * 1.05
set in4_min  5.0 * 0.95
set in4_max  5.0 * 1.05
set in5_min 12.0 * 0.95
set in5_max 12.0 * 1.05
set in6_min  3.3 * 0.95
set in6_max  3.3 * 1.05
set in7_min  3.3 * 0.95
set in7_max  3.3 * 1.05
set in8_min  5.0 * 0.95
set in8_max  5.0 * 1.05
# Fans
label fan1 "CPU Fan"
label fan2 "Sys Fan"
label fan3 "Aux Fan"
ignore fan1
ignore fan2
ignore fan3
#set fan1_min 2100
#set fan2_min 1400
#set fan3_min 1400
# Temperatures
label temp1 "CPU Temp"
label temp2 "Sys Temp"
ignore temp3
set temp1_max       60
set temp1_max_hyst  60
set temp2_max       40
set temp2_max_hyst  40

After changing network cards on one of our servers I noticed that eth0 and eth1 were gone. Instead I had eth2, which was the new network card. It turned out that by default Ubuntu assigns a fixed device name to each network card. This is nice… if you know about it…

If this happens to you, have a look at the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.