In (K)Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr, the Twinkle softphone application is somehow packaged wrongly so that due to missing dependencies, Twinkle cannot start up in graphical mode. Until a corrected package is released, you can resurrect Twinkle by using the version from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. To do that, perform the […]
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I’m just writing some Java code and for the thousand-and-first time there is something like public void someMethod(AnyType a) { if (a instanceof DerivateOfAnyType) { DerivateOfAnyType d=(DerivateOfAnyType)a; d.someMethodOfDerivate(); } } Even though these-days Java has Generics, Annotations and that other cool stuff, you still have need for such casts, and […]
Autocasting in Java – An approach
Note: This article has been unpublished for quite some time. It’s main parts date back to December 2007. Therefore, if some version number seem to be outdated – I am referring to the state it had back those days. We have a Java application with embedded Jython scripting engine. The […]
Jython memory leak/Out Of Memory problem
It seems impossible to operate the Asus M2NPV-MX or M2NPV-VM mainboards with an additional graphics card and use builtin and external card at the same time.