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Shell has been granted Superuser permission - what's going on?! 13 Jan 2013 | 02:25 am
OK, I rooted my Nexus 7 because I wanted a firewall on it. Why you have to go out of your way to install something on it that's common sense in the Desktop world is beyond me. Anyway, from time to tim...
Microsoft Surface - Don't people get it?! 4 Nov 2012 | 08:01 pm
I wasn't exactly thrilled when I saw the first picture's of the surface. Sure, a build in stand is a nice addition to a tablet for watching movies while lying in bed, but it also makes the tablet eith...
Nexus 7 docking station - WTF? 26 Oct 2012 | 03:09 pm
I seem to have a knack for fulfilling Murphy's law: when something can go wrong, it will. First, I miss the Nexus 7 launch in Germany due to getting sick. Then, when I finally get around to picking on...
Getting more search engine traffic... ...thanks to a spambot?! 21 May 2011 | 12:06 am
I just noticed something funny. Normally, the daily routine of a website owner is all about getting more visitors (preferably from search engines) and getting less spam. Now, I made a mistake with th...
Java, Linux and using the desktop's stock icons in a Swing GUI 27 Mar 2011 | 01:14 pm
Well, Java is cross platform, granted. But if you want your application to look native to the user's desktop environment, you have to jump through a lot of hoops (and some of them are burning, too). T...
Intercepting and logging HTTP POST requests with Drupal 18 Mar 2011 | 12:43 pm
Hooray! I finally opened my ScenePainter website up for the public, did some minor SEO for it and after only about a week or two, my most diligent user is a russian spambot. It visits me about once ev...
WhereAmI: Locating the installation directory of your Java application 7 Feb 2011 | 01:52 am
Know what I really hate about Java? This half-assed attempt at establishing a virtual filesystem. On one hand, you have the java.io package by which you can access the native filesystem of the host OS...
Executing a child process and redirecting output to a JTextArea 4 Feb 2011 | 04:04 am
Seems like Java developers shun the idea of having to do anything out of their cozy virtual machine, so I couldn't find any good code examples for doing this problem: Fork a new JVM from your current ...
My love/hate relationship with SATA hard disks 24 Dec 2010 | 03:37 am
I have this love/hate relationship with SATA hard disks. Today, my father had this problem again, of his PC not booting. It happens once every few months and the problem always has the same symptoms: ...
Twitter, Drupal and an afternoon wasted on integration! 5 Dec 2010 | 08:37 am
I hereby proclaim that I now officially hate Twitter. The usability of that microblogging "service" is absurd to put it mildly. It's beyond me, why people would even want to use it, let alone, feel th...
