The Site With the Lamp: November 2004 Archives

Red Hat 9 -> Fedora Core Part II

November 19, 2004

Yesterday when I finally managed to boot up after migrating from Redhat 9.0 to Fedora Core 3, it was with a minimalistic installation. An installation without gnome, KDE or any of the office or developer tools. Adding these packages turned...

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Red Hat 9 -> Fedora Core

November 18, 2004

Yesterday having successfully managed to install Fedora Core 3, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my heavily patched Red Hat 9.0 installation. It ended up being a disaster. Things got off to a bad start when the installer...

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Fedora Core 3 Installation

November 17, 2004

Just got hold of a set of Fedora Core 3 CDs and had a go at installing it on my machine that is currently running Red Hat 9. This is the first time that a Fedora CD is seeing the...

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java.net is pulling your leg

November 16, 2004

java.net, the so called source for java technology collaborartion has a sense of humor. We already have java.sun.com and java.com confusing enough for most people even without all the subsections on java.sun.com So what exactly is java.net? it looks a...

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Print Suite and Card Designer

November 15, 2004

We have been threatening to release the Rad Inks Print Suite for a long long time. Then on august 31, we finally did. On November 04th we followed it up by the first new version (1.01). There aren't that many...

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Date and Time Difference in Java

November 7, 2004

Though I have been a programmer for 17 years I have never quite got the hang of date/time calculation in any of the programming language I know (I can assure you there are quite a few). Recently I needed to...

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javax.imageio.spi.ImageWriterSpi: Illegal configuration-file syntax

November 4, 2004

Recently a client who ordered a customized version of Rad Upload had a problem with the applet when it was deployed on his server. It worked fine when it was run off our own servers. The error was something like...

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mysql subqueries

November 3, 2004

I decided to find out how many duplicate accounts exists in one of our databases and made a startling discovery about mysql sub queries. For many years PHP scripters (and other programmers for that matter) have been using a nested...

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million dollars wasted?

November 2, 2004

Computer Associates seems to think that software is used only in a handfull of countries. At least that is the impression you might get if you read up on their so called 'Million Dollar Challenge. The pdf that describes this...

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thunderbird

November 1, 2004

Having installed firefox a few days ago, I decided to have a go at installing thunderbird. The firefox installation certainly didn't go very smoothly for me, which was disapointing. Unlike the other products I try out on an almost weekly...

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