All are living from nature

Currently, I have the impression that I get drowned in economic competition, meaning this economic system is not the right one for me. So I thought about another one:

In modern highly civilized societies, we’re several abstraction levels away from the nature level (“implementation level”), which is the level most people in history lived in. [...]

Third way cont., up to the end

There have been numerous posts in my blog about the “Third Way”. This is probably the last, about the “end of the Third Way” and the lifestyle that’s enabled when arriving there. It is also, most astonishing, the last to the “Second Acts” series of posts, canceling that project resp. leaving it to be “just [...]

First post :-)

Yes, first post.

How to decide what to test in test-driven development, and what not?

Instead of testing everything, it can be necessary for better efficiency, to not write tests for some code.

A meaningful solution would be to test the public interface only. And then, only if one has to deal with bugs that are better to track by test code than by the debugger alone, one would write [...]

How to burn DVDs with limited speed, using wodim under Linux?

The command is the same as when burning CDs with limited speed, just that you need to use DVD speed factors instead of CD speed factors. Not all factors work; you can see what will work in the line “Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   4.0 in dummy SAO mode for single session.” shown just before [...]

How to install and run the mobile.de offline vehicle management tool on Linux?

The tool is called “”vehicleclient”, “dealertool” and “mobile.de Fahrzeugverwaltung”.

The install package you download is called “vehicleclient.exe”, size is 60 MB. vehicleclient.exe fails to install via “wine vehicleclient.exe”, complaing that you need at least 600MB of space on your disk, while there is much more than this on both the home and root partition.

Therefore, [...]

What to do to export classes from a JAR file from one Eclipse RCP plugin and import them into another one?

If you want, create a folder for the JAR library in your plugin. You could also place the JAR files at the root of the plugin, but of you also have source attachments, this would clutter that directory quite a lot. Right click on the target directory in Eclipse Package Explorer and select “Import [...]

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