How to make Nimbus as default look and feel of NetBeans ?

jdk6u10 has a new laf class named Nimbus. It is very clean and nice. Netbeans 6.5 has support of Nimbus for Java Desktop Application.

To set your application’s look and feel to Nimbus:

Right-click on your project in the Projects pane on the left side of the screen and select “Properties” on the pop-up menu. Project Properties window will appear. Click “Application” and click “Desktop App” in the Categories pane. You will see Look & Feel drop-down menu. Select “com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel” and click “OK” button.

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Netbeans IDE 6.5 has been released

NetBeans IDE 6.5 has been released. The NetBeans IDE 6.5 provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features, improved support for using the Hibernate web framework and the Java Persistence API, and tighter GlassFish v3 and MySQL integration. You can read the reelase information from here.

Also, Sridhar Reddy has released an introductory screencast, Introduction to NetBeans IDE 6.5,  here.

Download from here.

At least, Adobe has released 64-bit Flash Player

An alpha version of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player for Linux was released on 11/17/2008.  You can now download it from the following link.

• Download 64-bit Adobe Flash Player for Linux (TAR.GZ, 3.54 MB)

To read the entire story:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Java SE 6 Update 10 New Look And Feel Nimbus and Netbeans

Java SE 6 Update 10 is not a standard update. It has many major improvements and changes. First and foremost, it has new look and feel named Nimbus. Nimbus is modern, clean and stylish sister of good old friend metal look and feel. You can see the details of this update on this page. http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/java6u10/index.html#nimbus Nimbus appers to work well on Netbeans 6.5 RC2. But it has some visual problems on Netbeans 6.1 (i.e Output window black and treeviews are white on white, etc.)

How do I access my Windows NTFS partition from Linux ?

Step 1.
Install rpmforge-release package. Download it from DAG (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/).

Step 2.

yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse

Step 3.
Mount your ntfs volume. /dev/sdc5 is my ntfs partition.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc5 /mnt/win_c

Enjoy!

Thanks to Ibrahim for this quick tip.

How to install Intel Pro Wireless 3945 on CentOS Linux?

This article will describe you, how to install ipw3945 wireless adapter on a CentOS / RHEL based distribution.

Step 1.
You need to have rpmforge-release package installed. You can download it from DAG (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/).

Step 2.

yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-firmware dkms dkms-ipw3945 wpa_supplicant

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Logic Volume Manager: How can I extend a Volume Group?

It is a good choice to use LVM on Linux. It provides flexible storage management than any other traditional physical partitoning. With LVM, you can easily create, delete, resize storage volumes.

First of all, If you want to know what LVM is,  there are many documents on the internet. (e.g. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/)

In this example we will learn how to extend a Volume Group size.

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