Iran air Boeing 727 lands with stuck nose gear

I am not alone anymore!

A new developer joined the MyPasswords project. He has already added some cool features to the project that you will see in the new version.
Dan is a brilliant programmer and we can prove that MyPasswords is the best password manager for Linux and also other OSs.

Stupidity has no limits

On the server's file system!

Let's go back to ...

I will go to KL, Malaysia next week.
Study will start again!

Google Closure Book

Closure: The Definitive Guide

Tools for adding power to your JavaScript

Download this book here.

Access Content of Request in C# (ASP .NET)

You can access the content of the HTTP Request like this:

byte[] bytes = Request.BinaryRead(Request.ContentLength);

If the content-type of the request is text/xml you can do this:

byte[] bytes = Request.BinaryRead(Request.ContentLength);
System.Text.Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
string XmlData = enc.GetString(bytes);

rdesktop Remote Desktop from Linux To Windows

Have you ever tried connecting from a Linux machine to a Windows server using rdesktop?
If you get the error:

ERROR: recv: Connection reset by peer

Solution:
Go to the Windows machine's Configure Remote Desktop and choose:

Allow Connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop 

 

use -f switch for full screen mode. You can press CTRL + ALT + ENTER to exit from full screen.

Research Proposal

I've just finished writing my research proposal for UPM university. It's 4:30 AM.

Love Lock is so close!

Save (write) JPEG Images Without DPI Change in Java

If you try to write a BufferedImage on disk using ImageIO.write you will see that the result image will have a DPI of 96 regardless of the source image's DPI!
In order to keep the source DPI or set your own DPI you need to write your image using JPEGImageEncoder class.

NetBeans 7.0 Released!

The final version of NetBeans 7.0 release on (22 April 2011). But still no JavaFX support!
Download NetBeans 7.0

 

Father of Java Joined Google

At the end of March James Gosling joined Google.

NetBeans 7.0 RC2 Released

NetBeans 7.0 RC2 released. But it still doesn't support JavaFX.
Download it here!

NetBeans 7.0 Released

Finally the NetBeans 7.0 RC1 released.
Download

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Change Look & feel of MyPasswords to Nimbus

If you prefer the Java's new default look and feel, you can change your MyPasswords look and feel from system look and feel to Nimbus.

1. Go to your installation directory (if you use installer version) or go to the directory in which you have extracted the archive file of portable version of MyPasswords
2. Open the file settings.properties in Notepad or Gedit.
3. Change systemLookAndFeel=true to systemLookAndFeel=false

Done.

MyPasswords 1.0 defeats KeePassX

I can't believe but I heard about an article in LinuxFormat yesterday which reviewed 8 password manager software for Linux. MyPasswords is the 7th candidate and the final winner following by KeePassX.

I'm really exited and try to make it even better in the future. 

TurtoiseSVN on Linux

Today, I was looking for the best alternative for TurtoiseSVN on Linux. I went through many pieces of software including RapidSVN which I found that users are disappointed with it and it hasn't reached to the version 1.0 either.
Finally I found RabbitVCS. According to the reviews on the net and users' recommendations it is the best alternative for TurtoiseSVN on Linux.
By the way, VisualSVN is a nice and easy to install SVN server.

MyPasswords 2.3

The version 2.3 of MyPasswords released.

New features:

• file encryptor
• more secure database encryption
• brows window