Keep your ~/.bash_history entries unique

Posted on 2011/05/07 by David Linse

When often using the terminal you don’t want to type certain commands over and over again. Although recent commands are stored in the .bash_history in your home-directory they will be overwritten at some point when a new terminal is opened. So you won’t be able to use Ctrl + R to search for commands you’ve typed longer time ago. Luckily there is an option to append the terminal commands instead of overwriting them.

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Mustek 600/1200 CU on OSX 10.5

Posted on 2010/12/17 by David Linse

Due the lack of a provided driver it took me some hours to get my “good old” Flatbed-Scanner Mustek 600 CU up and running on OSX 10.5 so i want to share this. May it save someone some time..

Basically all the magic is done "SANE-API" and you’ll need the following installer-packages:

  • libusb
  • SANE backends
  • TWAIN SANE Interface
  • SANE Preference Pane


which can be found here.. Download and install them in the same order. Now plug-in your scanner, launch your image-tool and fire up a scan via: File > Import > Sane.
Voila !


Keywords: Mustek, Flatbed-Scanner, OSX 10.5

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How to send or receive data JSON encoded data from flash to a server-side-script

Posted on 2010/12/07 by David Linse

As contributor in some flash-related forums i noticed, that a lot of people are asking the same question over and over again.

How to send or receive JSON-encoded data from flash to a server-side-script.. ?

So i wrote this little tutorial..

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Sending Mails Using Ant MailTask FDT/Eclipse

Posted on 2010/11/28 by David Linse

I always wanted to make use of the “Post compile ant file” from Eclipse. After hours of searching, trial and (mostly) error i finally got it working. The Ant-MailTask sends a mail from within Eclipse including attachment.

The downside is that i was unable to get this running with my default Ant installation (v.1.7.1) and had to install a newer version of Ant.

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How To Protect Your Game From Being Rebranded (AS2)

Posted on 2010/11/21 by David Linse

Eric Heimburg from FlashGameLicense.com wrote an article about
How to protect your game from beeing rebranded for Actionscript3.

Because i’m developing flash-based-games here and there i found this article quite interesting. After reading this post i digged in my old experiments from the good old Actionscript2 times to get familiar again with the syntax. It’s been ‘a couple of days’ since i wrote my last lines of code in AS2. But following the idea of Eric the code is pretty much the same exept a few loops more.
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