Archive for August, 2004

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I made a stupid mistake while backing up my files on the old server and uploading them to the new one. That’s the problem when you have 2 similar SFTP windows (1 for uploading, 1 for downloading) and taking part in multiple chat sessions. You tend to not notice that you’re uploading to the server [...]

Bug 253722: remove alternate stylesheet UI Daniel Glazman couldn’t believe it and suggests that such incomplete features be enabled/disabled via a user option. Yes, please. Join the discussion.

A long shot, but do any of you Java programmers think an applet that uses JMF can be deployed and run on a client that doesn’t have JMF installed? I think the chances would be higher if instead of an applet, a Java Web Start application was used instead. Bundling the JMF libraries could work, [...]

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