For years I have been to computer engineering and I have come up with so many technical/methodological issues that I believe it is necessary to put these information here so that there is a central knowledgebase people can benefit in their searches.

I wish I had started earlier but it is better than never.

I will rearrange the pages to a more productive layout later, this is just a headstart.

Microsoft Access Office 2003 (folder name is strangely office11 in program files :)

In a table view, memo fields can be traversed with cursor but if you try to select the text of the field, it stops at some fixed point giving an impression that the text is incomplete, I believe it is a buffer problem but I had to check some of my programs for possible faulty table entries at first.

 

Mercedes SLK R170 (1996-2003)

The oil filter cap wrench required is 76mm 14p (sometimes called 14 flutes), the number of flat edges around the oil filter cap).

Fronts are 205 55 16 (7j x16) and rears 225 50 16 (8jx16) on 230k.

The computer interface is 38 pin and located above the box just near the battery.

SLK stands for spory, light and short in German. It is really short at just around 4000mm's.

  

www.benzworld.org/forums/r170 is a great place to learn. I will add the others soon.

 

Java Studio Creator 2 Update 1

Turkish character display problem (with İ, Ş and Ğ as I can remember has problems) is solved by adding the "-locale tr_TR" (without the double quotes) to the creator.conf file which is located in \Sun\Creator2_1\etc folder.

You will also need to change the locale to Turkish in Regional Settings of Control Panel in Windows.

 

Mac OS filenames

Mac OS's allow characters such as * \ - in filenames. This causes a problem when you need to copy a whole folder to a Windows OS.

 

 

Java Studio Creator 2 Update 1

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space"

This is caused when the application needs more memory than defaults;

java -Xms32m -Xmx128m (when you execute with commandline.)
 
to change 
 
java -Xms<initial heap size> -Xmx<maximum heap size>
 
However to change these settings in Creator right click on your 
project and select properties, on the run section and VM Options, 
set the memory limits as you like using the format above. (without
 java, just the -Xms<initial heap size> 
-Xmx<maximum heap size>)
 
This should also be handy for checking;
 
System.out.println("JVM maximum memory:\t"+Runtime.getRuntime().
maxMemory()/1024+" KB\n");
 
 
Java basics
 
Conversion String to Int
 
use;
 
int Integer.parseInt(String)
 

VIM
 
I have copied this from http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=26
 
Very useful tip, when you have scripts edited in 
windows and used in Linux. 
 
To those having problems with control-M not displaying as Control-M:


You should use the ENTER KEY or Return Key   INSTEAD of Control-M.

The purpose of the Control-V is to cancel the special meaning of 
the ENTER Key. Therefore the key sequence to replace ^M that you 
may see at the end of a line is:

%s/control-vENTER//

control-v will appear as ^

Next when you then hit the enter key you will see ^M

The ^ will appear to be written over so what you actually see when
you type the whole command is:

:%s/^M//


The fields of this "substitute" command are:

:(range)(action)/target/repacement string/options

% is the range and is a special character meaning the entire file.
It can also be used in place of the name of the file. example :w 
%.bak
would write the file you are editing to filename.bak. Range also
understands line #s such as 5,10 or $,10. $ is the current line.

"s" is the action and means substitute in this case

target string and replacement string should be obvious

options change the default behavior of replace - examples are:

i  - ignore case, therefore the target string will be case 
insensitive g - global, will replace the target multiple times per
line if they exist a better description of the substitute command
is available right in VIM - just type :help substitute

 
Strangely in my Debian system vim showed the script correctly and 
without ctrl-m's(probably encod-ing, but the script still did not 
run), so you may need to open it with vi to use the substitution 
trick.
 
 
Linux Ndiswrapper

A great tool to make your wireless network card/usb stick work with Linux. 
 
Just get the latest from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/  The one 
that comes with your distribution may not be free of latest bugs. 
Install it to the system with apt or dpkg. Then get the windows 
drivers of your card and copy them alltogether to a dir. Compile 
the ndiswrapper with make and then make install(you will need your
 version of kernel headers to compile, use apt or synaptic to 
install the headers). Follow the instructions that come with the 
package to load your driver. I have used it 
with a PCMCIA and USB card with no problems.
 
If your kernel gets upgraded, you will need to recompile 
ndiswrapper. Don't forget to install the new kernel headers before
 running make, make install.
 
Microsoft Excel
 
Displaying columns as numbers in excel. I needed it to use a 
highly dimensional table in another program.
 
R1C1 Reference Style:
On the Tools menu, choose Options, on the General tab check R1C1 
Reference Style.
 
Note how the formulas change accordingly.
 
 
Sun Java Studio Creator
 
To use with Java 1.6(or 6 if you like), first go to etc folder and
 change the netbeans_jdkhome to the 1.6 JDK folder you installed 
and then in the project folder, project.properties file, 
do
javac.compilerargs=-source 1.6
javac.source=1.6
javac.target=1.6
 
JDK 6 (1.6)
In a function that you declared to return something, even if there
is a return in a loop or conditional and in all circumstances it
has to execute, the compiler requires you to put a return out of 
the loop or conditional. The Visual Studio C++ is more clever
in guessing whether those return's are enough.
 
Resetting Network Passwords in XP
use this to see stored passwords.
"rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr"
 
Setting System Properties in Java
 
These are like environment variables in OS. Use the System.
getProperties and System.setProperties() methods. To set, you 
will need the java.util.Properties class. Do not forget to 
add the current properties to your object to avoid overwriting
them.
please check these links:
http://scv.bu.edu/Doc/Java/tutorial/java/system/properties.html
and 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getProperty 
(java.lang.String)
 
Installing Sun Java Studio Creator in Debian
 
It is actually very simple. Download the bin file from the Sun 
website, then execute the bin and select your home directory. 
Thats it, you dont need a deb package! When you want to remove it, 
just delete the folder. 
 
Alps GlidePoint TouchPad in Debian
 
You will need the synaptics package. It has supports both the 
synaptics and Alps touchpads. After installing read the readme 
file in /usr/share/doc/x-server-xorg-input-synaptics/
If you have the latest kernel then you will probably not need the 
patch for Alps. The only changes I had to make was to edit the 
xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 and add to the synaptics (which the 
installation created I guess) section the CorePointer option and 
remove this option from mouse. And then add the lines from sample 
Alps configuration from the Alps readme file in the folder of 
x-server-xorg-input-synaptics. The configuration has too many 
little options for pressure etc, which I believe is hard to find 
the working combination yourself. Once you have the tapping and
scrolling get to work this way you can just play with the options 
to fine tune. Synclient is a good tool in the same package to 
change the parameters without restarting X(ctrl-alt-backspace).
 
 
One-jar Tutorial
 
I haven't implemented it myself yet but this tutorial definitely 
solves an important problem I encountered.
 
http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/java/simplify-
application-delivery-one-jar-050422/page1.html