How to install Flex Builder 3 alpa 5 for Linux in Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) (32 bit OS)?

This goes alongside some sources (linked in the post) and adds some notes that I found necessary. It just relates to installing Flex Builder on a 32bit operating system; for 64bit Linux, there is another article on this site. We need to create a clean environment. Only if you never had Eclipse 3.5 installed on [...]

How to solve an “internal build error” when using Flash Builder for linux on Eclipse 3.5?

The error is this typical, pesky “an internal build error has occurred. right-click for more information.” error. For “normal” causes of this error see: 9mmedia blog post 165 Juda Frangipane blog post 212 Michael Imhoff “Internal build error” blog post more searching through the Internet

Now all this did not work in this case. The [...]

How to have file names with non-ASCII characters in M3U playlists on a Sansa Clip MP3?

The problem: you can have file names with special characters in them on your Sansa Clip player, and also play them if they are MP3 files etc.. But you can play them only directly with the player’s functionality, while referencing them in playlists does not work.

First of all, get and install the latest firmware [...]

How to put large audio books on a Sansa Clip MP3 player?

A large audio book is here defined as one that needs chapters and sub-chapters to navigate meaningfully. For example, an audio Bible. It would have 1189 chapters when using one navigation level alone, which is clearly unnavigable.

There are two alternatives in principle. The first is to store each chapter as a separate audio book, [...]

How to set up an own SVN repository?

The following short instructions apply to setting up SVN on a root server or anything equivalent. In the actual case, I used a Host Europe Virtual Server Linux 3.0 package.

Get the SVN documentation from here. All references in this list refer to the English PDF version of it. You will only need it for [...]

Practical epistemology

Each individual person can do nothing better than to find and use the best epistempology (a method for determining truth) for which he or she has the resources to use it. As this will return the best possible results, while even better but utopic epistemologies return no results at all.

Therefore, people in ancient cultures [...]

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