VMWare installation error: unknown encoding: ISO-8859-1

During VMWare installation on opensuse 11.2, i got this error:


SyntaxError: ('unknown encoding: ISO-8859-1', ('/usr/lib/vmware-installer/1.1/python/lib/sqlite3/__init__.py', 0, 0, None))



installation file is: VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle

http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=37046 says that this error is due to system local settings is Turkish.

sudo LANG=en ./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle  command worked for me..

free virtualbox images..

free virtualbox images on http://virtualboxes.org/images/opensuse/
http://virtualboximages.com/

a few latex tips

unordered list sample in latex:

\begin{itemize}

\item \emph{item1: }bla...

\item \emph{item2:} bla bla...

\item \emph{item3:} bla bla bla...

\end{itemize}

defining a figure in latex:

\begin{figure}

\centering

\scalebox{0.5} {\includegraphics{myPhoto.PNG}}

\caption{My Photo Description}

\label{fig:myPhoto}

\end{figure}

note: don't forget to put this in document beginning:

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

.. and reference it:

.. as in Figure ~\ref{fig:myPhoto}

the point here is putting label after caption.. otherwise, you may not reference the figure correctly.. for more, see http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=3823

JavaFX MediaBox exception: Connection refused: connect.

please see http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2011/03/revisited-using-java-fx-app-in-web.html for background of this post.

Problem

When you build the JavaFX MediaBox component (or a modified version of it), Netbeans 6.9.1 ide produces the following files under dist folder.

MediaBox.html

MediaBox.jar

MediaBox.jar.pack.gz

MediaBox.jnlp

MediaBox_browser.jnlp

When you move those files to production environment (some other location or a web server), you may get the following error, when you try to see MediaBox.html via a browser.

exception: Connection refused: connect.

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)

.....

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

Solution

In my case, this was due to .jnlp files.

Editing codebase and homepage attributes accordingly in both MediaBox.jnlp and MediaBox_browser.jnlp files fixed the issue.

http://groups.google.com/group/javafxprogramming/browse_thread/thread/f5b8cead773fba52

problem passing time info through jaxws web service

reading http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2009/10/revisited-troobleshooting-date-becomes.html beforehand may be useful for this post..

there was a problem while passing date info through jaxws web service; time info was absent..

However, editing the DateAdapter as follows solved the problem:

public class DateAdapter {

public static Date parseDate(String s) {

System.out.println("========= DateAdapter.parseDate param:" + s);

System.out.println("========= DateAdapter.parseDate:" + DatatypeConverter.parseDate(s).getTime().toString());

return DatatypeConverter.parseDate(s).getTime();

}

public static String printDate(Date dt) {

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();

cal.setTime(dt);

//System.out.println("========= DateAdapter.printDate param:" + dt.toString());

System.out.println("========= DateAdapter.printDate: " + DatatypeConverter.printDateTime(cal).toString());

return DatatypeConverter.printDateTime(cal).toString();

}

}