Published on May 29th, 2006 in PSPSince the PlayStation Portable’s release in September 2005, there are three groups in conflict. Thanks to savvy hackers and programmers, the first firmwares were hacked and every “poor” PSP owner could download games without paying for it. The other group, denies all of these accusations and sticks to the “Homebrew”-scene, which means they only use [...]
Published on May 29th, 2006 in Gentoo, LinuxThis month’s App Tip (well it’s the first one ever actually, I wonder wether I should create this as a monthly special, hmm…): GnomeBaker - It’s an outstanding Linux CD / DVD Burning Application. Why is it outstanding you ask? Well, for lots of reasons, but the most important one is its usability. If you’ve [...]
Published on May 24th, 2006 in JavaEver wanted to know more about “serialVersionUID”? Check out this episode of the (Not So) Stupid Questions 8: serialVersionUID. This “stupid question” is about the serialVersionUID, which defaults to being a checksum of a class’ fields, methods, and other members. Now that some IDEs emit a warning when you don’t override it, the questions are: [...]
Published on May 23rd, 2006 in General, Linux, WindowsHave you noticed? Microsoft seems to acknowledge a few of its toughest competitors out there. Firefox and Linux for example. As you can see in the screenshot, Microsoft has enabled Firefox users as well, to install a “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” extension right into their favourite browsers. Well, as we all know, it’s not really an [...]
Published on May 22nd, 2006 in GentooOk, so everyone knows this one from Windows or other Linux distros. You can simply shut down your PC using the Power Button. Well, this feature doesn’t come out of the box with Gentoo, that’s because Gentoo doesn’t tell you how to build your Operating System, it leaves all of the decissions to you. But [...]
Published on May 22nd, 2006 in GentooJust in case you wanted to add a daemon to the boot-process of your gentoo box, but couldn’t find the rc-script. Well, take a look at “/etc/init.d” directory. If you install an application that contains a daemon, then the build-script will be copied over there and the “rc-update add” resp. “rc-update del” commands look for [...]
Published on May 16th, 2006 in PSPI have had a PSP for a while now and I have to say, it’s amazing. My favourite PSP game at the moment is of course GTA Liberty City Stories. The graphics, the story and also the missions are unbelievable for a handheld, even when compared to its PS2 counterpart. Anyway, I wanted to go [...]
Published on May 11th, 2006 in JavaIf you want to make your Applications more secure and prohibit tampering, make use of the jarsigner tool, which is an excellent & easy to use tool.
So, if you wanted to sign your jar file with your own keystore, which is called “myapplication.jar” , the command would look pretty much like this:
jarsigner -keystore C:myapplicationmykeystore -storepass [...]
Published on May 8th, 2006 in GentooHey everyone,
I just found a nice Howto on how to realize a Gentoo VPS setup. Sounds really interesting and as always, it’s very well documented. As soon as I’ll have some time to spare, I might give it a try.
Check it out here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml
Published on May 5th, 2006 in JavaOk, this post is for newbies. Some of you might have been looking for a similar function to Sleep() that you have come to know from Visual Basic. Well, it takes a bit more in Java, take a look at the following code. Simply insert it into your main function to try it out:
Long stoptime [...]
