After having seen the latest Star Wars movie, I, like numerous other geeks, fell in awe with the BB-8 droid, and, like numerous other geeks, I wanted to try and build one. So, I started by getting a 300mm plastic ball and another of 180mm diameter (which was more of a 160mm ball according to…
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HP Laserjet P3005: fuser disassembly and gear kit replacement
Here’s how to disassemble the fuser on an HP LaserJet P3005 printer, and replace the gear kit (which is a part that fails often, reference CB414-67923). First remove the sliding plastic part at the back of the printer, then remove these two screws : Then remove the big plastic panel, bottom first so it disengages…
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How to act like an idiot and cost a free software project money
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…
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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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