A few monthes ago, a user made us a €5 donation for Claws Mail’s Windows version. Then asked me over email and Facebook friend request for support on “error messages that pop is starting up prior to sm something da da da” (actual quote). I just replied that this seemed like he’d need to…
2014/03/13 Continue reading...-
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Claws Mail donations: what are they for, what aren’t they for?
First of all, happy new year to everybody ! I’d like to talk a bit about the donations one can make to the Claws Mail project which I’m part of since approximately 12 years now, and tell a tale of something that luckily happened only once. There are three kinds of donations possible for the Claws…
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iReport: adding QRCode to Jasper reports the easy way
After testing various complicated solutions to embed a QR Code into iReport Jasper reports, the easiest way I’ve found is this: 1) Put ZXing’s Core and JavaSE jars in the classpath (using Tools/Options/Classpath if compiling locally, or the classpath property if using Ant and net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask) ZXing Core jar ZXing JavaSE jar 2) Add an image…
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How to add the ATV4 orbit data to Stellarium
(English version – see also French version) ESA’s ATV-4 Albert Einstein was successfully launched yesterday and is now orbiting Earth for nine days prior to its automated rendez-vous with the International Space Station. As for each satellite, it has TLE (Two-Line element) data publically available and it can be downloaded from celestrak.com for example…
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T-shirts and other things for wannabe astronauts
I prepared, as a surprise for my space-fan child Paul, a T-shirt featuring the ISS – International Space Station. While I was at it, I took a bit more time and decided to make more, maybe some people will like it. So there are various ISS T-shirts, some Soyuz-based T-shirts, and some gadgets. I made…
2013/05/06 Continue reading...
