Once I wrote some JUnit tests for a framework which referenced GUI components in the model. No worries on my development machine - but as I moved those tests to the test server I’ve got that bloody HeadlessException. At this very moment I felt a bit headless too.
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David Pashley has some nice tips on writing robust shell scripts. Maybe you’re interested in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Tutorial as well.
And on the IBM website i found another nice tutorial series.

During my research of decompression theory I found some interesting websites. On the Dir Diver site there are some nice article on various topics. More about algorithms I found on the decompression.org site through a nice page with links to several articles.
Some really interesting stuff can be found on the public ftp server of decompression.org.

Some might hate the way iTunes 7.x stores the downloaded artwork, and some like it. There were already big discussions which is the right way to do it. Personally I prefer to store the images directly in my MP3 files as ID3 tag. There is a trick to manually embed all the images in the […]

Windows XP is now working on my notebook. My Debian is nicly running in the VMware player but a native OS is much more fun. That’s why I gave openSuse 10.3 a shot. The installation was pretty much straight forward. Sadly my WiFi was not working and after two hours my ecstasy turned into disappointment. […]

Finally I found some information about my sound problem and a solution as well. Yesterday I tried to install the 1.0.15 version from the openSuse update repository. The system was not very happy with this decision so I stepped back to the old 1.0.14 driver.
Today I found a new how to solve this problem on […]

Yesterday I uninstalled the new compiled ALSA driver but I did not succeeded. So I uninstalled them. Suddenly my OpenOffice stopped working. I thought that this was maybe in conjunction with the installation of the Gnome Desktop. This morning I started my openSuse again and suddenly my Firefox isn’t working.

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
lib […]

Wired News - AP NewsThe world must respond to climate change and other environmental challenges now while the cost is low or else pay a stiffer price later for its indecision, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday.
A new report by 30-nation organization looks at “red light issues” in the environment, including global […]

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things†» Archive » Living World: Fine Tuning Your PerceptionTake our Wind-lit: Solar for example. It is a new way of expressing wind, which has always existed, by creating objects that sway and light up when the wind blows.

Wind-lit: Solar
Beautiful.