Archive for the ‘FOSS’ Category
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Originally posted at JavaProgrammingForums.com
Where can I store my application data?
I see a lot of people starting threads because they're struggling to persist (often) a little bit of data from one run of their Java application to the next. The offered solutions are often some kind of jiggery-pokery involving java.io.File. Not ...
Posted in Breaktime, Fixed, FOSS, software, Useful | 3 Comments »
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
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I've been simulating the movement of a line-following robot in plain old Java recently, but wanted to try a few problems that need physics, so I downloaded JBullet - a Java port of the Bullet Physics Library. It needs LWJGL - the Lightweight Java ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, FOSS, software | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I've been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I'm currently installing the source ...
Posted in Breaktime, Broken, Fixed, FOSS, hardware, Life | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The standard 'zones' facility of osCommerce has an attribute 'zone_code' which at first glance looks as though it might support a standardised shipping quotation system, but osCommerce comes with a database populated with zone codes that are not at all standard. The kinds of codes that are present in the ...
Posted in FOSS, Spider.my, Useful | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 14th, 2010
There's plenty of 'information' available in Malaysia, and just a few people publicly questioning its quality. The Ministry of Tourism is conducting a poll on its website to see whether people want to keep the arches being built at the Penang Botanical gardens (Warning: abysmal Flash site). Anil Netto (who ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Breaktime, FOSS, Life, Philosophy | 2 Comments »