The first beta version of NetBeans 6.5 (Milestone 1) came out earlyer this month, I installed it and didn’t have any problems with it until now. The first thing to notice is that the interface looks much more Gnome-native, and the PHP editor is now included in the same application contrary to Netbeans 6.1.
NetBeans 6.5 GUI:
NetBeans 6.1 GUI:
As usual, it works perfectly with OpenJDK on Fedora 9.
My old iPod Nano 1st generation is half dead, my old Nokia phone from 2003 is half dead, my current mobile phone carrier (Orange) charges an arm and a leg for a service I don’t use that much, it’s time for some change!
So, I finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.6 and found out about an annoying bug after a number of user comments: WordPress automatically replaces double dashes (--) with single dashes (-) in your posts, this is very annoying when you post code :).
The good news is that it’s easy to change this behaviour, simply edit your wp-includes/formatting.php file and comment out the line $curl = str_replace($static_characters, $static_replacements, $curl);. Ok, it’s dirty to edit WordPress files directly but here you go, it works...
Another quick note, I updated 2 older posts to reflect changes in Fedora 9:
I had an old Hauppauge WinTV GO2 (Conexant 881 chip) tuner card lying around since it stopped to work on my Vista computer, so I decided to install it on my Fedora 9 x86-64 box. Usually I hate TV cards, they never work even on Windows...Hauppauge cards are particulary bad.
