I just upgrade my venerable Nvidia 980 XGL with a more modern video card the Sapphire ATI X1650 Pro AGP. The X1650 is not cutting-edge but it really boosted the Half-Life 2 performance, I can get 40+ fps in 1900×1200 in my 24" monitor. I’m pretty impressed. I’m not a hard core gamer, though.

I’m following the Netbeans Platform Porting tutorial and the NotifyDescriptor was not been recognized by the IDE. I found out that you must add the Dialogs API to the Libraries. Just right-click Libraries and then select “Add module dependency”. In the “Add Module Dependency” dialog just type NotifyDescriptor on the “Filter” field and it automatically select the Dialog API for you.

It took a while to find this entry describing how to include the Netbeans APIs source code. In short, you have to download the actual sources (the link in Geertjan’s Weblog is outdated) at http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/final/zip/ (file netbeans-*-platform-src.zip) and then link that zip file to the platform in the platform manager. *Make sure that the path doesn’t contains whitespaces (it didn’t work for me). *

To access the Netbeans Platform Manager just do Tools → Netbeans Platforms

And then click on the Sources tab and “Add Zip/Folder”

The process is documented in the Netbeans help at Help > Help Contents > Netbeans modules > Using the Netbeans api > Extending Skeleton API Implementation > Registering the NetBeans Sources and Javadoc.

After long long time since the bug #149890 was reported on 2006-07-06 has been finally resolved on 2008-02-03. I wonder if my comment on javalobby a couple of days ago has something to do with this. Now it seems that is possible to have a dynamic MenuManager as a submenu of the parent MenuManager.

I started using Jaiku, or should I say I tried to start usign Jaiku? Whenever I try to add a feed I always get a “No feeds found at that address” msg. The issue is reported here and here in the #jaiku support channel and they seem to be working on it but the issue has been there for 18 hours or so

Super Screenshot! let you make screenshots of a website like this one

I’m using an Axis2 Java client to communicate with a gSoap web service. Axis2 rejects the gSoap response so I used wireshark to see what’s gSoap sending back. Now it’s clear what is the problem, gSoap is not sending the “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” as the first line. That’s because I’m using WITH_NOIO, so if your are having the same problem either write yourself the “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” line into the response or change the stdsoap2.c file to send the line anyway. just look for the line

if (soap_valid_socket(soap->master) || soap_valid_socket(soap->socket))
...
sprintf(soap->tmpbuf, "HTTP/%s %s", soap->http_version, s);

nor soap→master nor soap→socket would be valid sockets if you are handling the sockets yourself outside gSoap (and if you’re using WITH_NOID that’s probably the case) so that if clause will be always false. you can wrap that if clause with a “#ifndef WITH_NOID” or just comment out the if.

I want to move my cat from Spain to Sweden and it has been hard to found the required procedures but finally I sent an email to hundochkatt@sjv.se and they answered the day after. All the information is on the sjv website. The most important things is that you must wait 120 days between the rabies vaccine and the blood analysis so you have to arrange this at least 4 month before the flight.

Those are the mails I received from the friendly people working at sjv.se (Swedish Ministry of Agriculture)

when bringing a cat from Spain to Sweden, these are the requirements:

- identification
- EU-passport
- rabiesvaccination with titertest
- deworming
- notifying the customs

See more on our website:
http://www.sjv.se/home/amnesomraden/animalhealthwelfare/importexportofliveanimals/dogsandcats/eucountries.4.3c40f0106de78b98880001370.html

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Mia Ahlqvist
Jordbruksverkets kundtjänst / Swedish Board of Agriculture, Customer
Service
tel: 0771-223 223 / phone: +46 771 223 223
e-mail: hundochkatt@sjv.se

and also

Hello again!

Blood analysis:
after a rabiesvaccination you have to wait at least 120 days before
taking a bloodtest. When receiving a result of the bloodtest the
analysis is valid as long as the vaccination is valid.

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Mia Ahlqvist
Jordbruksverkets kundtjänst / Swedish Board of Agriculture, Customer
Service
tel: 0771-223 223 / phone: +46 771 223 223
e-mail: hundochkatt@sjv.se

I continue looking for graph visualization software. I rn into prefuse. Looks promising, take a look into the gallery to see some examples.

But it’s still only a toolkit so it means that I have to develop at least a little application to be able to visualize my graph. I tried using the examples that come with prefuse and they work but they are not enough. I just converted my data to GraphML and I was able to load it into the GraphView example. But I need to add some functionality to it before I can actually use it to analyze my graph. I’m not sure I can use prefuse to print out the graph anyway so I’m giving up for a while. This graph thing it’s taking too much time, but I will try to come back to it some day.

I’ve been playing a little with Facebook API and I run into problems when trying to use the facebook.feed.publishStoryToUser api call. That call always return 0 (permissions error) for me. I realized that there’s a difference between “Added applications” and “Authorized applications”. So if you just direct the user to the login page (http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&v=1.0) from you application your app will end up in the Authorized Applications side. You have to direct the users to your application page in facebook first (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=xxxxxxxx&ref=s).