Author Archive for tex

EU will mit “Telecom-Paket” weiter Bürgerrechte abbauen

Mit dem “Telecom-Paket” zeigt sich mal wieder die bedrohliche Seite der Europäischen Union - wie schon bei der Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Anscheinend versuche Lobbyisten erzwungene Spyware, Internetsperren und eine Abschaffund der Netzneutralität einzubringen.

Bei Netzpolitik und Fefe gibt es dazu gute Beiträge.

Meine Empfehlung: Lesen, Nachdenken und dann handeln, damit wir auch noch morgen in einem freiheitlich, demokratischen Staat leben können!

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Eclipse 3.4 Issues

After migrating to the latest Eclipse Release 3.4 aka Ganymede, I had to reinstall the essential plugins. Neither PDT nor Subclipse did work OOTB. For PDT you can follow the instructions from the PDT Wiki and for Subclipse have a look at the mailing list archives.

DDTSS

Did you every want to actually improve your favorite distribution? Then go to http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/xx and help translating Debian to your language!

Firefox 3 keeps switching to offline mode

Since I’ve installed the final release of Firefox 3 on my Debian “lenny” system there is this annoying bug, that Firefox keeps switching to offline mode all the time, i.e. when I close it.

After some searching I found out that there are others who have the same problem and that this is a “feature” related to an application called “Network Manager”. Altough Network Manager is installed - I can’t tell why - I did never use it. So why does Firefox keeps annoying me? I don’t want to click on “File -> Work Offline” everytime I start Firefox to get access to the Internet. If you experience the same problem and wan’t to check if it is NM’s fault then run this command in a terminal and see if you get a result of “3″ (which means that NM thinks you are online) or “4″ (which means offline).

A developer claimed that setting “toolkit.networkmanager.disable” to true would cause Firefox to stop this behavior, I’ll try it out … Nope, doesn’t work. Only completly removing NetworkManager helps.

Eclipse 3.4 - New Features

An interesting Screencast showing some of the new features in Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede can be found at the Screencast Blog.

Teamspeak 2 on Linux

Is was trying to get Teamspeak 2 (Client) running on a recent Version of Debian Lenny. The Problem was that, the Kernel was compiled w/o OSS Support. Installing “alsa-oss” solved my problem and Teamspeak ran perfect.

Hell freezes over

tarzan: M$ will odf als standartformat anbieten und amd liefert seine neuen grafikkarten mit linux treibern auf der cd aus…
tarzan:  komischer tag
tarzan:  wenn heute mal nicht die hölle zufriert

RESTlet: Selective Guards

When creating RESTful WebServices using the RESTlet API you may wan’t to create a selective Guard, i.e. a password protection for special HTTP methods only. Perhaps you want to allow all GET requests but require authentification for modifying requests like PUT or POST.

In this case you’ll need to extend the Guard class and overwrite the methods authenticate and authorize. An example implementation would look like this:

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Visual Representation of SQL Joins

Coding Horror provides a great visual representation of SQL Joins, just in case you need one.