Mind of Matt

Month: January 2010

  • Citizen of the informal world society

    This is my view on being a social being: I am citizen of the worldwide informal society, a cosmopolitan. That is I will try to minimize obligations due to being part of any formal society or (like the German state, the European Union, any church that requires membership, anything that requires formal membership). And to […]

  • How to install Eclipse 3.4.2 on Ubuntu Linux 9.10?

    Eclipse 3.4 is not in the Ubuntu repositories of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. So if you need it for any reason, you need to download the tarball from eclipse.org and install it yourself. If you follow the normal procedures for that, you might receive the following error message in {$ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE}/.metadata/.log !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2010-01-26 […]

  • What can be used as a cross-platform 3D viewer for OBJ (Wavefront) files?

    The viewer should be cost-free and support at least Mac OS X and Linux, and if possible also Windows. The best solution seems to be currently the program “GLC Viewer”. It is very easy to use, works really good and seems a good, clean software. The best thing is, it is open source. Its website: […]

  • How to install Flex Builder 3 alpa 5 for Linux in Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) (64bit 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 64bit operating system; for 32bit Linux, there is another article on this site. Especially, one source was Adobe’s instruction set for installing on 64bit Linux. Installation procedure We need […]

  • Don’t repeat yourself: use links

    Hyperlinks are one of the best methods against redundancy, and to combine systematic and ergonomic storage of things. It means there is one authoritative place where stuff can go, and many places that link to it. Examples: In software applications: For example in knowledge management Wikipedia, there can be alternative titles for an article, and they […]

  • How to forward an e-mail using a template in the own templates folder, using KMail 1.12.4?

    These instructions relate to KMail 1.12.4 (that is KDE 4.3.4). When choosing “Forward: As Attachment …” KMail will create a new message with the message to forward attached, and also attachments of that message included. But you cannot chose to use a template from your template folder then (with preconfigured text and recipioents). Save the […]

  • How to install Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad T61 6457-BK3?

    Use the AMD64 variant of Ubuntu 9.10 and install that. After that, here are steps to take to cure various problems that are present after a “vanilla” Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 installation: Black screen after resume This problem with the computer’s NVidia Quadro NVS 140m graphics card is reported to be due to using the open […]