Daily Archives: May 9, 2007

Love: strace. Hate: RedHat

Well, thanks to my second favourite debugging tool (after System.out.println), strace, I figured out what was going wrong in Rants and Revelations » Today’s Java puzzlement. (Short aside: CentOS is actually RedHat Enterprise Linux with the proprietary stuff filed off. … Continue reading

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Today’s Java puzzlement

Does anybody know why my CentOS 4.4 desktop system shows Korean fonts in both native apps (like gvim) and our Java application, but our CentOS 5.0 Theatre Management Systems (TMS) will only display Korean fonts in native apps. Obviously the … Continue reading

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