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Comment on Kodak bankrupt? by Angus Hardie

Angus Hardie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:27:37 +0000

I guess Kodak is a bit like Xerox, original developers of lots of stuff that other people ended up making a success.

I didn’t know they invented OLED, nor about the commercial printing. I tended to think of them as just cameras + film.

I wonder if they’d hung on to these divisions, would they be more or less successful today?

Comment on Kodak bankrupt? by Leynos

Leynos — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:33:02 +0000

They also appeared to be making a something of name for themselves in the commercial print industry. I don’t know how much of their business that accounted for however.

Something else that surprised me – Kodak were the inventors of OLED, yet they sold the last of their OLED division to LG in 2009. A number of the R&D staff in that field also left to form the American firm Emagin, which supplies OLED heads up displays to the military and medical sectors.

Comment on SoyLatte 10.6 bundle template by Patrick Surry

Patrick Surry — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:28:49 +0000

Thanks – I was trying to get soylatte to be recognized by Java Preferences app on Intel Core Duo (32bit) Mac Mini running 10.5.8

I downloaded your package, and then in a terminal did:

sudo mv ~/Downloads/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3.jdk /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/

This got it to show up in the preferences app so I could select it.
Unfortunately I still can’t get Skifta to recognize it – the installer still claims there’s no compatible Java 1.6. Maybe it is looking for a specific name?

Comment on Java FileWriter, XML and UTF-8 by EPO

EPO — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:41:46 +0000

Before
new FileWriter( ….
output
wÃŒnscht

After
new OutputStreamWriter(…. ,”UTF-8″)
output
wĂĽnscht

expected
wünscht

shit went in the second round ….

Comment on Change console keyboard layout in debian by Thanks

Thanks — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:35:55 +0000

Thanks , The below command fixed by keyboard layout problem in one of the debian Virtual Machine I downloaded

dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Comment on SQLEditor upgrades by Palmer Woodrow

Palmer Woodrow — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:12:23 +0000

This is the only decent DB-design tool I can find for the Mac. Actually, the last time I looked, I think it might have been the only one period. So it’s nice to find that it’s not just barely acceptable, but truly usable and effective. Nice job.

I’m looking forward to version 2. Any hints as to what the enhancements will be?

Comment on Talk Talk Door step selling by Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:28:32 +0000

My God I had those eejits minus one at my door last night.
With exactly the same sales pitch and the same atitude.
They ask if I had recieved my bundle through the door, I said “No what bundle?”, they said “about the free internet”, “what free internet” says I.
“Oh we are upgrading the exchange and broadband is going to be free” came the sales reply.
“Who is upgrading the exchange” I asks
“We are” says they
“Who is We” I retort
“TalkTalk” was the final answer.
“Is that right” I say as I point my company van parked at the kerbside outside my house, The BT Van I use every day in the course of my employment with BT, “Strange that, as the exchange is BT’s responsibility and its already upgraded”
I then ask when this is happening and I get a vague answer of December.
With that one of the sales persons gets extremely nasty and bitchy and starts mouthing of about the fact BT employees get broadband free as a perk.
After speaking to several neighbours they got the impression that it was BT on the doorstep and only after much asking did they find out it was talktalk and were told that the same thing regarding Talktalk upgrading the exchange and that broadband would be free if they moved to talktalk

Comment on PHP, trim and the non breaking space by Marc

Marc — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:08:45 +0000

Hi, danke. Hatte das gleiche Problem. Ich hatte mit $str = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $str)); alle Whitespaces entfernt. Dachte ich zumindest. Es waren noch mehrere Leerzeichen vorhanden. Mit ord() resultierte es das ASCII Zeichen 160. Das verwirrte mich, weil das ja eigentlich das "á" ist. Erst nach einer weiteren Recherche kam ich auf das non braking space und dann auch auf diesen Blog, der mir dann die Lösung brachte (ISO): $str = str_replace("\xA0", " ", $str);

Comment on Disable “You have new mail” terminal message by Paul Maddox

Paul Maddox — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:46:27 +0000

Very useful, thanks!

Comment on Java FileWriter, XML and UTF-8 by nick

nick — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:01:40 +0000

I found similar problem in March 2008 with reading UTF-8 encoded files in. I wrote it up here:

http://footech.blogspot.com/search/label/UTF8