Monthly Archives: November 2009

Making MythTV work with pulseaudio in Fedora 12

If you run mythfrontend 0.22 from RPMfusion, it will automatically try to disable pulseaudio and use the default ALSA output instead. This leads (in most cases) to no audio output at all. Changing mythtv’s audio output device in the frontend (Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> General -> Audio System -> Audio Output Device) from ‘ALSA:default’ to ‘ALSA:spdif’ worked for me, but… Read more »

Rearrange Thunderbird accounts

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Unfortunately, the Folderpane Tools-plugin I used for rearranging my accounts in Thunderbird isn’t TB3 compatible (yet?!). Although it claims to work with all Thunderbird versions starting from 1.0 it just throws out parsing errors with the current Tunderbird beta. But the plugin doesn’t do any magic tricks, of course. It simply reorders the accounts in the corresponding preferences file prefs.js…. Read more »

FileWriter, XML and UTF-8

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Deep down in the Java-API: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/FileWriter.html Convenience class for writing character files. The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are acceptable. To specify these values yourself, construct an OutputStreamWriter on a FileOutputStream. So, if you want to write you XML-Document to a file, for the love of god, don’t use the… Read more »

Quickly zooming a BufferedImage

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If you don’t need a scaled instance of your BufferedImage in the memory, you can use “on-the-fly scaling”. For example, this custom JComponent can be used to display a BufferedImage and zoom it with the setScaleFactor(..)-method For some benchmarking on the different RenderingHints values see Chris Campbell’s great article The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance() Resources: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/advanced/quality.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/04/03/perils-of-image-getscaledinstance.html

Changing default Look’n’Feel for Netbeans (and the GUI builder)

Netbeans’ GUI builder is great. It’s one of the essential features that made me drop eclipse. But designing accurate GUIs can be a pain in the arse. Especially, when you use the GUI builder with a certain preview Look and Feel (e.g. GTK+) but you application later runs with a completely different L’n’F (e.g. Nimbus). It’s almost certain, that your… Read more »