As I’m using a very slim and dark theme on my dekstop, some apps tend to behave quite weird sometimes, one of this apps is my favorite IDE – netbeans. I thought I’d post how to use this IDE with any LookAndFeel you want to use – in my case “Metal” – the default “Java [...]
With this simple box i’ve learned a little about the “wave” property in blender. This, a little subsurv and smooth subdivision can actually be quite OK for creating a simple ribbon like the one below:The final render looked like this:
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My first blender animation: The wine doesn’t look nor feel nor even behave like normal wine but it’s just my first animation so there’s still time left for me to improve… ;-)
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Vim is a really amazing text editor (though I’d like to learn Emacs too soon… :-)) and it can be easily expanded to be even more useful. One super cool extension I found is: vis — it allows powerful sed-like line modification (you could use sed from inside vim, but that’s not really “handy”). Vis [...]
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Another Command Line Fu oneliner I’ve sumbited today: #show X window events in chosen window $ xev -id `xwininfo | grep 'Window id' | awk '{print $4}'` EnterNotify event, serial 13, synthetic NO, window 0×6400053, root 0x13c, subw 0x640005b, time 42431610, (367,0), root:(369,63), mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyVirtual, same_screen YES, [...]
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A simple yet usefull command-line-fu I made up: #list all internet active apps $ netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq firefox java pidgin thunderbird-b Lookup this command at CommandLineFu Thanks to HarimaKenji for fixing a little issue with this command. —update— CommandLineFu user submited a [...]
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Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo. Yet another amazing freedom using initiative. Let’s quote the homepage first: In April 2009, Iceland’s neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series ‘Found Songs’ – recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With [...]
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freedom,
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web
I recently had this following fatal error on an CentOS VPS server: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath} Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 84, in [...]
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And once again I’m having fun with blender… ;-) In this semester at my University we’ll have to do some simple 3D stuff in XSI. As I don’t want to “learn” a proprietary program I won’t have access to in my future I’m learning to use blender :-) It’s such an amazing tool, and the [...]
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Some of you may know some of those as they seem to be a little (in)fameous in the codding world, yet here is my TOP5 of funny coding comments: Found on google code: //here there be dragons [source] Found on google code: //I am drunk and coding like I am the greatest coder of all [...]