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Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios) & Subversive: Installing SVN connector failed
I tried to set up the Subversive plugin on a fresh Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios) installation recently. I used the Subversive version 0.7.9I20100512-1900 from the Helios repository, but trying to install a SVN Kit connector (I tried SVN Kit 1.3.2) failed with the following error message: “Cannot complete installation: Problems occurred while performing installation: Operation details […]
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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2: Option “Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation”
By default Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 does not allow saving changes to table structures that requires the table to be re-created, like inserting a new column at a specific position or changing the data type of a field. The saving process is aborted with the following error dialog: Saving changes is not […]
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yaVDR 0.3.0a & Asus M3N78-EM: ACPI-WakeUp Howto
Here are the step by step instructions to set up ACPI-WakeUp for an Asus M3N78-EM mainboard and yaVDR 0.3.0a: Disable “Power On By RTC Alarm” in the BIOS settings (Power > APM Configuration). Edit /etc/vdr/vdr-addon-acpiwakeup.conf: ACPI_ENABLED=yes Edit /etc/default/rcS: UTC=yes Create the custom template /etc/yavdr/templates_custom/etc/default/grub/10_main (you may have to create the directories under /etc/yavdr/templates_custom)*: GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 […]
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Android development: Restart application programmatically
Here are two short code snippets that I used to restart my Android application programmatically. First, I added the following code in the onCreate method of the activity I would like to restart and saved references to the activity and the restart-intent to static attributes: […] @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); […] ACTIVITY […]
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Hide Android (software) buttons on Archos 101 internet tablet
On the Android tablet Archos 101 internet tablet the Android buttons (Home, Menu, Back and Search) are software buttons, and not hardware buttons like on most other Android devices. To hide theses Android buttons in your app, one has to add the following permission to AndroidManifest.xml (none-Archos devices that do not know the permission will […]
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Setup Dropbox on headless Ubuntu 9.10 server
Update 2012-06-07: A modified version of the dropbox init script available here https://gist.github.com/861875. With this version it is not longer required to edited the script for every user. Instead, one needs to create a linux group dropbox and add all users to the group the script should take into consideration. This post is a summary […]