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A Recent Eclipse On Debian

Eclipse is WAY outdated on debian. Even the unstable release ships a basically unmodified version since 3 years.

So today I decided to remove the ancient version -- which did not start anyway -- and try the new nice release from eclipse.org:

And, hey... It works like a charm. The only downside is, that it will run in a local directory in your home directory. But that could be fixed my installing in /opt and including it into the default path.

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Paypal new TOS

I just got a mail from paypal, that they are changing their AGB (German for Terms of Serivce) According the mail, the new version is effective from June 2nd.

Mostly, they correct spelling and grammar, but one thing is interesting: The strike the wording, that the ebay buyers protection is an "free, compliementary service".Reads for me, as there are plans for charging for this service.. We'll see.

(Addionally, make sure you buy on your local ebay site -- they limit the proctection for example to ebay.de --)

Changes of the AGB outlined:

https://www.paypal.com/de/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/general/PayPalPolicyChange-outside

php based home inventory system

I'm currently looking for a system for keeping an overview over my electronic parts I have "on stock", storing the datasheets and keeping and especially where I put them.

During this I found "home-inventory". Looks ok, but also lacks some features, like it can only store images...

PS: I have to rethink about the "looks ok". The first peek on the source code reveals, that the author did not care about sanitizing user input:

                // delete first picture if exist
                $sSql = 'SELECT ITM_Picture FROM Item WHERE ITM_ID = ' . $_REQUEST['id'];
                $pictName = fetchFromDb($sSql, true);

Aarrghh.

Funny Goolge Ad

Just saw on this blog in this article:

Seems that someone forgot to fill out some details and currently burns its money....

Trac for fanctrl enabled

fanctrl now uses Trac for tracking defects (bugs), tasks and enhancement request. 

So feel free to file any bugs, wishes, patches etc...

Of course, you can still comment in this blog for 

http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/fanctrl/

ScribeFire Inserts Zemanta Web Bug

I'm using the firefox extension "ScribeFire" for Firefox. It is a convenient blogging editor allowing me to prepare articles also when offline. But currently I'm a little pissed. 

By coincident, I checked the generated html source and found that the plugin inserts the  following "web bug" in each and every post:

Vote For Earth and Dim the lights tonight

Global Warming, Climate Change and Preserving Energy are for sure one of most important topics for our and next generations.

At least if we care for the place we live in.

To underline the importance, the WWF announced a Earth Hour today: At 8:30 pm, turn off all lights that are not ultimatly needed for just one to express that you care.

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