September 2009 « ma.juii.net

Lulled into the system

Being awake means being aware of your situation.

The more you are awake, the more you realize about your situation.

If you are fully awake, you are able to realize and judge your situation from an external position (“on a meta level”).

With this in mind I need to say, I have long been not [...]

How to call ActionScript code from a Java application?

I had to find a way to call existing ActionScript code from a Java application. The options that I could find are these:

Calling an AIR application as a program from Java

One option is to call the AIR application as a program from Java. This may be the best for tiny interfaces where the [...]

On granting access to my mind

I thought about what I would do if I really, really care about somebody and take somebody seriously. Like, say, in a partnership.

I think the deepest expression of that, for me, would be something most other people will think is quite strange: shared information management. The most important part of my thinking is externalized [...]

I know where all my time goes!

Other people do sports, cook for themselves, maintain their health and beauty, keep their house clean and well-equipped, call and meet people, and work more than I do (so earning more money), and even watch TV and do games. I ave nearly no time for all that, on average.

Means my time goes somewhere instead. [...]

Joblessness is a symptom of decadent society

Being jobless means being unable to care for ones own needs because one lives in a society where one depends on others (the “market” and the “employers”) to care for ones own needs.

It seems that joblessness is an inherent phenomenon of highly civilized societies: due to the technology used, there simply is not enough [...]

Java best practices for parameter checks and exceptions

Maybe you too had to use a Java library where the classes and methods you used had much exception throwing in their signatures (like, for example, when method parameter checks failed). And as a good Java programmer, you did not just pass on the exceptions, but did some meaningful handling of them. But then you [...]

How to print package labels using Deutsche Post INTERNETMARKE or DHL Online-Frankierung and Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty)?

In a nutshell: printing to PDF

Be sure that your cups-pdf pseudo printer is set up correctly. No guarantees! Choose to print with Java (“Paketmarken mit Java”). Choose the printer “PDF” in the top left. If you want, do a test print. Click to print the postage (“Portodruck”). Open and print the generated PDF file [...]

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