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PostHeaderIcon HashMap.put(null, toto)

Question: does Java’s HashMap accept null as a key?
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PostHeaderIcon Forum Trium 2006 – back!

Quelques impressions sur le Forum Trium 2006 a Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles.

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PostHeaderIcon SoundMAX ADI 1986a

Useful to know before reinstalling a sound card “SoundMAX ADI 1986a”.

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PostHeaderIcon Forum Trium’06

Je serai present demain, toute la journee, a l’edition 2006 du Forum Trium (Mines Paris, Ponts, Techniques Avancees, ENSAE), comme representant de mon entreprise.

Je suis facile a trouver: il suffit de chercher un geek mal a l’aise dans un costume ;-).

PostHeaderIcon Kanji to Hiragana converter

I dreamt of it, but it already existed!

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PostHeaderIcon CSS changes

I modified background colors.

Yes, I know, it’s ugly, but:

  • I am fed with using CSS grammars. Had I chosen, CSS would be an XML-based language, instead of a grammar.
  • I was fed with “black font on white background”. It is not yet a rainbow, but it is easier to read, at least I feel it as less aggressive for the eyes.
  • I did not want to enter deeper in the PHP source code at 11pm.

Therefore, I think I will not change anymore the stylesheet for a while.

PostHeaderIcon Firefox 2.0

Some problems to install and a few improvements, but nothing revolutionary

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PostHeaderIcon clipboardcache: Windows security hole?

What are clipboardcache-n files aimed at?

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PostHeaderIcon List the content of a jar

Case: you have a jar foo.jar, and you need list the names of the files in it.

Solution: use the following command:
jar -tf foo.jar

PostHeaderIcon Display the list of certificates trusted by Java

Case: under Windows, you need the list of the certificates that your local Java installation trusts.
Solution: open a DOS console, and write:
C:\>keytool -list [-v] -keystore "C:\Program Files\j2sdk1.4.2_07\jre\lib\security\cacerts"