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So if you just downloaded the latest Intel Graphics Installer and just found that it doesn’t support Ubuntu 14.10.

Here is my updated /etc/rc.localfor Ubuntu 14.10 #!

Posted to StackOverflow This is currently possible to solve but only in a pretty hackie way, but let me first explain a few things: When you write a lambda, the compiler inserts a dynamic invoke instruction pointing to the LambdaMetafactory and a private…

Assuming you used Chrome and a modern Linux file system… $ attr -g xdg.origin.url Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm Attribute "xdg.origin.url" had a 74 byte value for /home/dan/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm: https://dl…

I had dowloaded RunIt.

setjava() { if [ "$1" = "-q" ]; then local quiet=true shift fi local jdk=~/Applications/Java/jdk1.$1 if [ !

smbpasswd -r YOUR.DOMAIN.COM -U YOUR_USERNAME This will mean you don’t need to find a windows box every time your password expires if you only use say Outlook webmail in a windows environment.

nslookup -type=srv _ldap.

I was creating a Jar via the Java API’s and I couldn’t get it to run my main class: $ java -jar foo.jar Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile foo.jar Running it via the class path worked fine: $ java -cp foo.jar Bar Hello world!

left (Ctrl+Super+Left): wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,0,0,1280,1032 right (Ctrl+Super+Right): wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,1280,0,1280,1032

My .gitconfig contains [user] email = dan@bodar.com name = Daniel Bodart [color] ui = true [alias] ci = commit co = checkout st = status -sb nuke = !

Nat Pryce pointed out these gems: Scala Reference 6.12.3 Precedence: “The precedence of an infix operator is determined by the operator’s first character.”

As I got quoted recently in “Scala — 1★ Would Not Program Again” I though I finally should write up a little Wat moment we had recently: So does anyone know “wat” the following Scala code returns?

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/gnome-panel/ killall gnome-panel

An alternative approach to just doing CSV export (which is fast and more cross platform/app) is to use web queries (.iqy files that point to fairly HTML) or data queries (.dqy extension but point to the DB) Pro Supports refreshing data / live data model W…

echo 'enabled=0' | sudo tee /etc/default/apport

[extensions] hgext.bookmarks = rebase = hgext.purge = color = [ui] username = Daniel Worthington-Bodart <***@*****.com> [merge-tools] meld.executable = meld meld.args = $local $base $other -o $output [auth] google.prefix = code.google.com google.usern…

If you use C3PO you can make it do it when it checks the connection out.

This is a quick post in response to Elliotte Rusty Harold article titled Why Functional Programming in Java is Dangerous.

So one of the last things that wasn’t perfectly working was coming out of suspend when I opened the lid.

UPDATE: Ubuntu 14.10 settings Ubuntu 12.10 works pretty well out of the box (for me it was just power management and keybindings that needed work), see Ubuntu wiki if you have any other issues .

Previous to Gnome 3 I had a nice simple flat file for my keyboard settings, that I just unzipped into .gconf and all was good.

I found this article http://ip6.com/projects/?

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http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Crazy-Fast-Build-Times-or-When-10-Seconds-Starts-to-Make-You-Nervous

By default Meld’s 3 way merge combined with Mercurial merges into the left panel.

Prezi The original blog post / rant

In Chapter 6 “Where to go from here” on page 58 Dean references TotallyLazy for those not wanting to take the scala / clojure route.

Hopefully this will stop someone from wasting a day of their life… If you pass in the following when you start your Java application: java -Dlog4j.configuration=file:///some/path/log4j.properties And that file contains a class that is not on the class pa…

Firstly this is not just my effort but my team and organisation.

import static com.googlecode.totallylazy.Runnables.printLine; import static com.googlecode.totallylazy.lambda.Lambdas.n; import static com.googlecode.totallylazy.lambda.Lambdas.λ; import static com.googlecode.totallylazy.numbers.Numbers.decrement; import…

If you have a Dell Precision M6500 with a Synaptic TouchPad + TrackPoint) (rather than an ALPS version) and you are running Ubuntu 10.10 you may find the TrackPoint / TrackStick / Nipple is being detected as a standard PS/2 Generic Mouse and this is causi…

http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/ Very chilled out…

So given the above, the forces I am trying to balance are Make it easy for people to do the right thing, hard to do the wrong thing.

Now for some web specific whys/values I do the in-memory acceptance testing… Semantic Html is my golden hammer Progressive enhancement is my swiss army knife I love JavaScript but try to never write any but if i must I make sure it’s generic.

(Previously on TWSDEV) As the “crazy” guy behind the in-memory / out-of-container acceptance testing on a number of java/.net projects, I think it’s important I explain to people the “Why” and the forces / constraints I am trying to balance.

Wow Dyson have done it again: http://www.dyson.co.uk/technology/airmultiplier.asp Interestingly they talk about the fact they had to do “Hundreds of iterative tests” to get the design right: http://www.dyson.co.uk/insidedyson/default.asp#Air_Mult_Tech_Dev

If you have met me or worked with me in the last 15 years or so, you will know that I am pretty mad about the web as a platform, HTTP as a protocol and HTML as a state engine.

So I noticed an issue with Google Chromium and it not updating the cached entry with new headers on a HTTP 304 response.

So after rediscovering the distraction free editors to write reports, it seemed mad not to use the same environment to update my blog.

So many moons ago I was reading about a fullscreen editor for Mac called WriteRoom.

One of the pain points we see on web projects is the divide between client side and back end development.

UPDATE: Jim pointed out that you can access the field via reflecting over the delegate.

So I was chatting with Christian Blunden about JavaScript, and he asked if it was possible to have private fields in JavaScript.

So at my current client we have a bunch of Devs that are fairly recent converts to Resharper and a bunch of old hats who know IntelliJ or have used Resharper since Version 1.

This could be just verbal diarrhea, but I was watching Autum Watch last night and it struck me that the issues with over fishing and the fishing industry as a whole have a lot to do with all the waste inherent with manufacturing processes that use economi…

A little while back I was chatting to someone about SEO and the power of outgoing links.

So I got some helpful feedback on my last post from John McCrea who is VP of Marketing for Plaxo.

I’ve been an occasional user of Plaxo (just the address book) for the last 3 years, using it to keep a few important addresses up to date.