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Photofunia is pretty impressive!

It can apply advanced effects on your photos: place it a museum, put it on the mug of a nice girl, show it on tv, place it on a street advertisement, etc. Try it!

My photo placed on the mug hold by a nice woman

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I love the Markdown syntax. I think it the most readable when in plain text, hence it is very easy to write as well, plus it has a large feature set. It can be used for writing blog posts, for instance.

I am looking forward to writing my documentation in Markdown in Java projects managed with Maven, instead of using APT.

Do you know any maven-markdown-plugin? If not, is the MarkdownJ implementation good (so that I can write the plugin myself)?

I’m happy to tell you that my maven-jflex-plugin is now in the Maven central repository.

CVS can produce a “no space left on device” error, not only when the filesystem that contains the CVS repository is full, but also when the temp directory is full.

In order to start correctly, Glassfish requires that the server has a recorded entry in the DNS.
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I installed Eclipse Europa (3.3) and Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) but could start none of them. Starting eclipse fails with

I eventually found a fix, that requires to change the eclipse.ini file (I replace “new lines” with “spaces”)

Hope this helps!

Othere suggestions include:

• changing the vmargs parameters (also suggested by bobobobo) and in particular changing the maximum heap size¹
• completedly blank out the eclipse.ini file (which obviously fixes the incorrect new line character)
• reinstall a 64 bit version of Java (in case you are on a 64 bit OS)
• fixing the arguments after vmargs. This was obviously not the problem with my fresh installation, ubt maybe it can help other people.

1. I suspect this reformats the new lines as well, depending on the editor used [↩]

Since I use Gmail, I have little spam delivered into my inbox. Yet, for a couple of days, some spam manage to avoid the Gmail anti-spam.

• Mrs amoussou requests my bank details to help to transfer $4.2 million. Of course, I would get some of it afterwards her my bank details
• Heifner Imbach reads the bible for me, and inadvertently joins a virus as a devil gift
• Conseils santé sells very cheap medicine
• B2D1 thinks I should get ready for my email marketing campaign
• and the list goes on… Have spammers found a leak in gmail anti-spam filter?