Typing tilde on Netbeans 6.1 - annoying java bug

It seems that is imposible to type the ˜ symbol (named also tilde,squiggle,twiddle,not,approx,wiggle,swung,dash,enyay,sqiggle) in Netbeans with a Swedish keyboard at least. It seems that it’s a long known java bug (bug 6353098, bug 6253172). At least I can use the Alt+126 code to type it.

July 11, 2008

Create tables in Evernote

There is no easy way to create tables in an Evernote table the best way I found is to use blocknote freeware WYSIWYG html editor to create the table and then paste it into the Evernote note.

June 16, 2008

The MacBook Pro is not crash-free

I just received my new MacBook Pro. I got this crash on the first day :-(. I put it to sleep and when I tried to restore… look what showed up on the screen.

June 16, 2008

Upgrading my video card

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 1900x1200 in my 24" monitor. I’m pretty impressed. I’m not a hard core gamer, though.

February 14, 2008

Jaiku "No feeds found at that address"

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

February 5, 2008

Super Screenshot!

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

January 25, 2008

gSoap WITH_NOIO

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 ...

December 13, 2007

Bringing a cat to Sweden from a EU country

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. ...

December 4, 2007

Facebook API

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).

November 15, 2007

Cost of life in different countries

I’m moving to Sweden soon and a friend of mine sent me the following link (in Spanish, sorry) about the salaries in different countries. From here, I learnt about Purchasing Power Parity and using the data from the IMF I obtained the PPP ratios from Spain, Sweden and other countries. Using this list you can translate how much worth is your money in other country. For example, roughly we can say that goods you buy in Sweden using 10000€ can be purchased in Spain for only 8058€. Or saying it in another way, if I have 10000€ in Spain I have the same purchasing power than a suede that owns 12409€. Yet another way to say it is that living in Sweden is a 19,41% more expensive than living in Spain. ...

July 4, 2007