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Depending on your settings, when you are typing a word, the phone replaces the word while you type. How do you ignore that and type what you really want? The autocorrect typing on Samsung Note is not documented well, afaik. It is easy. Just keep typing, the word you are really typing will be shown below as the first option even though the phone is showing what it thinks you really want.

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There is a minor lack of documentation regarding the Ant script task and running scripts using Groovy. On the Ant manual page for the "script" task, it says you can run something like this snippet: <project>   <target name="run">    <script language="groovy">     println "Hello world!"    </script>   &

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Intro With Apache Ant you can get input from the user using the "input" task. When you run Ant in a console window, the DefaultInputHandler is used. This handler just uses the console's error and input streams. When you run Ant in a graphical IDE, a Graphical User Interface based input handler may be used. This handler will use the graphics toolkit (on Eclipse that would SWT) to pop up dialog

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SynopsisLoad configuration files in cascade to reduce duplicate data.Keywords: SCM, CM, Properties, Groovy, Config, CSSContent: Context, Forces, Solution, Consequences, Implementation, Code Example, Related Patterns, Related Intellectual Property, Further ReadingContextA business system uses property (configuration) files to configure particular environments or subsystems. Many environments

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So, I tried to load Linux on an old Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop at home. This time Ubuntu 9.04, code name "Jaunty Jackalope" worked. It was actually easy. Well, have not tackled getting the Wireless card working yet. Ubuntu looks great and fast considering how underpowered the laptop. That fan is too loud!!!! One nice touch is I can control the Ubuntu laptop from my Windows XP laptop by

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A missing feature in Facebook I finally succumbed and got my own Facebook account. The result was great (in regards to family matters). However, there is one thing I don't like about Facebook, you only have one presence or persona. Lets say you want to use your actual name and a real profile (like I'm not tall, handsome, and a genius), but I also like to segregate my personal from my business

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So I went to file a tax return online. I see that they offer the Free e-filer program. I click some links and am confronted by a warning page that I will be sent to an external company site. Wait a minute that sounds weird. Let me try again. I go the page where I can pick a company or have the site recommend a company. First I look at some of the company names. They look like those that

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Web effects on learning style? I'm reading this article: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm I haven't groked it all yet. It reports on research done by Jakob Nielsen on how digital content is read. So far it seems to support some thoughts I've had and opinions I read regarding the use of "computers in the classroom" or in general the effect that web based information is having

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Neologism Contest Hilarious contest. I saw this on Chris Case's blog: http://chriscase.blogspot.com/2006/12/neologism-contest.html "Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. * Coffee (n.), the person upon

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Computer systems generate a lot of heat. There is great effort to remove that heat using passive or active systems (fans, pipes, etc). Then there is now efforts to design cooler systems. I wonder if this excess heat can also be reused. Somewhat like "grey water" systems reuse some types of water in a home. The amount available is huge. Imagine reusing the heat energy from Google server

Josefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243208490390372585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055702.post-1134253732504279762005-12-10T17:22:00.001-05:002010-11-03T21:05:31.631-04:00

Executable Jar Metadata (XJM) http://members.cox.net/jbetancourt1/topics/computers/programming/languages/java/articles/jar-info/JarVersioningTiddlyWiki.html This is a new 'article' I wrote and posted to my web site. It discusses an approach to access Java jar version information. This is quite a pain in Java, though there is plenty of support for this in the Java platform. Interestingly,

Josefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243208490390372585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055702.post-1118580054188826652005-06-12T08:29:00.001-04:002010-11-03T21:03:03.902-04:00

Statistically Improbable Phrases Amazon has this cool feature. "...are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books in the Search Inside! program. To identify SIPs, our computers scan the text of all books in Search Inside. If they find a phrase that occurs a large number of times in a particular book relative to all Search Inside books, that phrase is a SIP in that book." Click on on

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Hacknot: "Wikiphilia - The New Illness Posted on 18 Feb 2005 by Mr Ed Wikiphilia: A mental illness characterized by the irrational conviction that any problem faced by a group can be rendered solvable through installation and use of a Wiki. This delusional ailment has been occurring in increasing numbers ever since it was first identified in 1995. Wikiphilia usually manifests in two distinct

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Gear Live | Why Apple Makes a One Buttoned Mouse: "Giving the average person a right mouse button is like giving a bald man a comb." Very good article on the use of the right button mouse button and why Apple still "caters" to this as a default. Note that Apple computers can use a multi-button mouse.

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SC Magazine: "'If infected mobile devices are scary, just thinking about an infected onboard computer..,' said Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at Russian firm Kaspersky. 'We do know that car manufacturers are integrating existing operating systems into their onboard computers (take the Fiat and Microsoft deal, for instance).'" Computer viruses in cars! Computers are

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Searching for a tune on the web? I have this tune in my head. I'd like to find out the name or group who recorded it. No use asking people, they stare at me as I hum out the melody and mimic the base and drum line. I don't blame them. Interesting problem for a search on the web. One approach is contextual. Where and when I heard it, what style, etc. Another would be the ability to just

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Cafe au Lait Java News and Resources: "Beta 9 of Groovy, a JVM hosted scripting language that combines the speed of GW-Basic with the clarity of Perl, has been posted. .... " Maybe I'm a techno geek. I find that quote hilarious!

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The Mac mini : Page 1: "Low-margin, low-tech, white box, red state PCs have been around since the before Michael Dell first declared Apple doomed, so what is the big deal about Apple finally doing what most PC manufacturers have been busy losing money at for years?" Pretty interesting product. My initial thought is that compared to Linux or Window boxes with comparable specs, it is still very

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The Bad Plus: "GRAMMY NOD FOR 'GIVE'! Among the nominees for the 47th Grammy Awards, you'll find The Bad Plus's own 'Give' in the running for Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical). Big up to studio maestro Tchad Blake, who fostered amazing sounds on both 'These Are the Vistas' and 'Give', and who is slated to record the band's next studio album in the spring of 2005." Great music from this

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Swing MVC Framework Interesting article on Swing MVC use. The author presents his ongoing R&D framework JStaple. It is discussed at http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=30278 Some of the comments are good. What may be missing is the understanding that even if Swing does have everything neccessary to solve GUI problems, having the expertise, time, or incentive to apply

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Recent discussion with my son. Went something like this: son: Who is the most evil bad guy? me: where? son: In Marvel or DC. me: Well, I'm not too sure about DC comics, Marvel a little more. Galactus is the most powerful bad guy. son: So he's the most evil? me: Well, bad and evil are not the same thing. Galactus is just hungry. So, he's going to eat the earth! [laughter] son: Right, he's

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Zilverline Search Engine Zilverline is what you could call a 'Reverse Search Engine': Zilverline is a search engine that offers web access to your personal or intranet contentSee: http://www.zilverline.org/zilverlineweb/space/home Sounds like a superset of what the Google Desktop offers.

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Simple XML     I've been thinking that XML can be simplified for simple applications.  However, unlike many proposals out there, I think this is simple.    Just create an editor that hides the less-then and greater then symbols.  Further, the delimiting tag can be hidden also.    How to show containment?  Use positioning, WYSIWYG like

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Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game: "Here's a fun game... First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on 'Customer Reviews,' and sort them by 'Lowest Rating First.' Hilarity ensues! It's the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game! "

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Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics":   "Isaac Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics' A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with

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