http://acogitosis.krop.pl polscy naukowcy udowodnili: myślenie boli Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:33:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IE can't do anything right. If you save some graphical elements to PNG, and try to put them on an area with CSS-defined color, there will be a difference even if you used the same color in the PNG -- IE renders PNGs darker than it should. The reason for this ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2009-06-26-en-fix-png-images-dark-in-ie/ Using Java Timer class one can schedule a task for recurring execution. Even though ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor makes it possible to create timers with nanosecond resolution (but beware of underlying operating system clock precision!), regularity of task execution is by default awful. I have run into this once and had to explain the ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2009-06-03-en-fix-irregularity-of-java-timer-and-scheduledthreadpoolexecutor/ SIL3124 is a PCI (as in old PCI, not PCI express) SATA-II controller which I had to buy because my NAS' old Gigabyte motherboard supports (downspeeded) SATA-II drives only to 750GB size. Of course I got to know this AFTER buying 1,5TB drive ;-) Anyway, it's always uphill and even though ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2009-05-29-en-solution-to-sil3124-2-no-valid-device/ Update 2009-11-18, using Ubuntu 9.10 now Wine has finally font anti-aliasing, to enable do this in regedit: ============ REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "FontSmoothing"="2" "FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002 "FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578 "FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001 ============ Mainly notes to myself, but maybe some random Googlers will find some of them useful. I may add more in time. If many of texts in your system, including Firefox are not in your native ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2009-03-31-en-ubuntu-904-jaunty-on-my-amd64-system-notes-to-myself/ However great LVM is in Linux, allowing one to span single "partition" over several hard drives, if the underlying "drives" are real hard drives and not RAID volumes, You can get pretty fucked when one of those disks fails. It took me several hours of googling around and trials to find ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2009-03-29-en-how-to-mount-lvm-vg-and-restore-data-from-it-when-one-of-its-pv-drives-has-failed/ Notes to myself and Googlers on installing a virtual hosting control panel Virtualmin (a great add-on to Webmin) on Ubuntu server: wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh chmod 755 install.sh ./install.sh -- installs Virtualmin automatically with all dependencies, with a nice skin which is also ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2009-02-15-virtualmin-on-ubuntu-804-server/ Straciłem nad tym więcej czasu niż chcę się przyznać; miałem dodać mały element graficzny o nazwie pliku zspon.png do strony jednego z Klientów i jakimś cudem nie pojawiał się on nigdy na stronie, a Firebug pokazywał że ma on "display: none", choć żadnego CSSa nie przypisywałem. Okazało się, że Adblock z ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2008-11-29-dostaje-automatycznie-display-none-w-firefoksie/ Google wasn't awfully helpful while I was searching for solution to word wrapping a text when drawing in Java, so let's teach Google this: ;) private void drawStringRect(Graphics2D graphics, int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2, float interline, ... http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2008-11-27-en-how-to-word-wrap-text-in-graphics2ddrawstring-in-java/ Szczeciński [sąd zakazał pokazywania piersi dzieciom](http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80273,5893873,Sad__Topless_w_Polsce_poki_co_zakazane.html) w związku z czym należy je teraz karmić butelką lub ostatecznie z zawiązanymi oczami. http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2008-11-07-uwaga-karmiace-mamy/ After upgrading NetBeans to 6.5 the -post-compile task I added so JiBX bindings are compiled stopped working for me throwing an exception about bindings not found at runtime. The solution to this is to disable "Compile on Save" feature in project properties. http://acogitosis.krop.pl/2008-09-02-netbeans-65-and-jibx-problems-solved/