Kühlmittelgelenkschlauch

For electronic or modelling projects I will add some helping hands and flexible lights to my workbench. The today post on lifehacker about the diy GorillaPod reminded me of Third Hand++. Using these adjustable coolant hose systems (Kühlmittelgelenkschlauch) it looks possible to very easy fulfill all the ideas I have.

Unfortunately I don't know a shop who sells this. A google search found only a view shops who sell precast ones. On ebay.de I had more luck - Gego-GmbH-Präzision.

Power over Ethernet

Found a short description on diy PoE.

my conclusion:

• mostly the unused pairs 4-5 (positive) and 7-8 (negative) provide the DC power


• on multi-mode wiring the pairs 4-5 commonly carry the telephone signal


• makes only sense if no power outlet is available (cable resistance on DC)

running SAX example from Java & XML

After the download of the examples from the books home page I tried to run the SAX example from chapter 3. Unfortunately the example didn't compile.

SAXTreeViewer.java:196: cannot find symbol class SimpleEntityResolver

Checking the books errata I found it on the page with the unconfirmed error reports. Unfortunately the missing class is not part of the example download. Searching the web led me to the missing class SimpleEntityResolver.

Change the javaxml2 package name according to your the edition of the book. For me it is javaxml3. No it worked as it should have in the first place.

one password storage for different devices

So far I use different programs to store my password on different devices. It is therefore difficult to synchronize the container.

This is a list of the programs I use:

• On the Windows PC at work Password Safe. The project was started by Bruce Schneier. It is still actively developed.
  


• On the linux PC at home MyPasswordSafe, last updated 04.02.2005. Uses as container the version 2 data format.
  


• On the mobile jFreeSafe, a J2ME application last updated 30.08.2005. It is a pain to add a new account but easy to look one up.
  


• On the Palm the build in functionality.
  

Over the time I collected some links to other programs, but haven't tested them.

• KeePass Password Safe Windows, linux, J2ME, Palm (converter)


• KeePass to Keyring converter


• Keyring for Palm OS last update 2005


• LockCrypt Java and J2ME

By the way on the Password Safe homepage a Java SWT port exists.

cddb information [3]

where did I get the information:

On wikipedia I read the articles about:

• cddb


• freedb


• Gracenote


• MusicBrainz

Description of the cddb file format.
Java example to calculate the id.

MusicBrainz Homepage
Calculation of the MusicBrainz DiscID.
Don't use the old RDF based libs for new projects. There is a new RSET WebService and the used XML meta format.
On cpan exists a perl module, but it is in a very early development state.
With the libdisci (see the example usage) I'm able to convert the cd-discid into the MusicBrainz DiscID.