Youtube repeated

Today I discovered an interesting link for listening (watching would make less sense) Youtube repeatedly :http://www.youtuberepeat.com The idea is quite simple but smart :)

ACM Author-izer

ACM has introduced a new policy when accessing scientific publications. The authors of the papers can now manage the access to their papers.Although I haven't verified, it is said that the access through the Web site of the author is allowed...

Stay tuned ...

Choices...

An interesting video to watch (don't get paralyzed :))):

http://blog.ted.com/2006/09/26/paradox_of_choi/

Eclipse UTF Encoding and Simple Copy/Paste to Text Editor

Eclipse may be painful when writing cross platform codes. There are several links on the Web that explains how to setup UTF-8 as encoding of the Text editor. Here is what I did: Right click the Project>Properties. From the Resource, choose UTF-8 from Text File Encoding (Eclipse also does some changes when you insert the special characters you want in the code).

A good source of these special characters (more of a mathematical operators) and their codes are here : http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/mathchart.html

Stay tuned ...

Session independent background job and source code addition in Eclipse

When you log out from a server or close the shell window, your associated jobs will also killed with your session. In order to have a job in background in these situations use:
nohup :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/285015/linux-prevent-a-background-process-from-being-stopped-after-closing-ssh-client

For a library you use as a jar file, it is easy to add the source of the jar later for debugging:
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t82300.html

JPF and Mercurial

I started using JPF (Java Path Finder), an extensive verification tool. It can be found at : http://babelfish.arc.nasa.gov/trac/jpf...

Another versioning system/tool with a distributed architecture (not available in SVN), Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

Stay tuned...

MacosX Java Update to 6 (JDK 6)

Recently, I had a problem with the version of JDK on my system. The MacosX (Leopard) has the 1.5 as the default install. It actually download the update but does not activate it. Anyway, from Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences, you can organize the order of the Java installations however this would not unless the you break the links :
sudo rm System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK
sudo ln -s 1.6 System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK

Stay tuned.