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New release of Java 1.5
Sun released Java 1.5.0_17 today. This release fixes (among other things) the regression bug of Java 1.5.0_16 which made it impossible to view and edit metadata in Conzilla. I wrote about this in a...
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Host Networking with VirtualBox 2.1
Finally. The new version of Sun’s VirtualBox makes the fiddling with tunnels obsolete. It basically works the same way as in VMware now.
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Long time no blog post
It feels as if it is time again to start blogging, there are some things to write about which do not fit into the traditional scientific publication format. I guess blog posts are an appropriate...
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Educational metadata in RDF with SPARQL endpoint
Some time ago (within the Organic.Edunet project that ended in late 2010) I implemented a mapping of IEEE LOM to the Dublin Core Abstract Model (thanks to my colleague Mikael Nilsson who did this work)...
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Turning Europeana into a source for educational content
Together with my colleague Matthias Palmér I participated in the “Hack4Europe!” competition in Stockholm which has been arranged by the Swedish National Heritage Board in the context of the Europeana...
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The oldest Swedish university – a fact check with SPARQL and DBpedia
This morning I started to read a newspaper article about Gotland University College being merged into Uppsala University, but I stopped after the second sentence which basically stated that Uppsala...
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Green Hackathon at OKFestival in Helsinki
And so it was time again! We are going to run a two-days Green Hackathon at the OKFestival in Helsinki. The conference will last for the whole week with the Green Hackathon happening on September 19...
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Recap of OKFestival sustainability stream and recorded sessions
The sustainability stream (in which I was involved) published a detailed recap of the OKFestival, don’t miss this! At the same time, videos of most of the sessions have been added to the web page of...
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Fixing IntelliJ IDEA font glitch on Ubuntu
This post is mostly for myself to remember what changes to make in IntelliJ IDEA. The problem is that fonts are ugly and not antialized in stock-IDEA. In my case it affects IDEA 13 and 13.1 so far. The...
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Dropbox dropped support for all files systems except ext4 on Linux. This is a problem for everybody using an encrypted home directory since those are usually mounted via ecryptfs or similar. The...
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