A bit of googling revealed a document which contain a list of shortcuts in Netbeans. The only problem is there is no indication for which version of NetBeans the list is. However, it seems that most of the shortcuts are valid, even thought it may be incomplete.

Options screen with Symfony tab

Unfortunately there seems to be a bug and in some cases the Symfony tab does not appear and the screen looks like this

Options screen without symfony tab

I tried to find a solution, but the only one I found is to delete the settings directory (on Linux the directory .netbeans). This solution is not ideal as it means you loose your settings and you will need to reinstall any plugins you had before, but at least solves the problem. Any other suggestions are welcomed.

(I will assume that the file to be processed is called out.bib)

1. (optional) Beautify your BibTeX file using emacs.
   1. Open the file in emacs and select the whole text (Ctrl + Space and go to the end of document).
   2. Select BibTeX-Edit from menu → Operating on buffer or region → Sort entries. This will sort the entries alphabetically. This option is also available in bibtex2html, but I am not convinced it works reliably
   3. Select the whole text again and select BibTeX-Edit from menu → Operating on buffer or region → Reformat entries. This will format nicely all the entries. This step is quite important because otherwise the result will not look very pretty in your blog.
2. Convert the BibTeX file to HTML using bibtex2html

   bibtex2html --both --nodoc --no-header out.bib

   This will produce three files out.html, the bibliography in HTML format, out_abstracts.html, the bibliography in HTML format with abstracts and out_bib.html the bibliography in BibTeX format. If you do not want to have abstracts do not use –both option. Check the man page of the bibtex2html command for more option.

3. Install Include Me In That (html) Plugin to be able to include files in your blog entries (make sure you activate and create the IMIT_files directory).
4. Copy the three files (out.html, out_bib.html and out_abstracts.html) to IMIT_files directory
5. Create the first entry where you want to display the bibliography in HTML format and insert

   <!--IMITH out.htmlIMITH-->

   Make sure you make a note of the ID of the page. Let’s assume it is 8.

6. Create another entry that will display the bibliography in BibTeX format and insert

   <!--IMITH out_bib.htmlIMITH-->

   Make sure you note this ID as well. Let’s assume it is 54.

7. Finally create an entry for the bibliography in HTML format with abstracts and insert

   <!--IMITH out_abstracts.htmlIMITH-->

   Obviously writing down the ID of the page. Let’s assume it is 65.

   Now the pages will display fine, but you will find out that the links between pages will not work. The next step is to edit the .htaccess file to make the work.

8. Open or create an .htaccess file in the root of your WP installation and insert the following:

   <Files ~ "^[\._]ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
   </Files>
   
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteRule   ^.*?out_bib.html(.*)$    ?page_id=54$1 [L]
    RewriteRule   ^.*?out.html(.*)$    ?page_id=8$1 [L]
    RewriteRule   ^.*?out_abstracts.html(.*)$    ?page_id=65$1 [L]

   </IfModule>

   # END Url Rewrite section

   Save the file, and that’s it. Obviously you will need to have the mod_rewrite module enabled on your site.

You can see the results at http://www.summarizationonline.info/bibliography/

I wasn’t too happy with this change especially because a few months ago I tried an Amarok 2.0 snapshot, but I reversed to 1.4.x quickly because I wasn’t happy with the features it offered. I was even more upset when I noticed that Amarok would not play any of my music. Initially I thought that I do not have the necessary codecs installed, but this should not have been the case because I used to be able to play both mp3 and ogg files in the 1.4.x.. To make the situation even more confusing I was able to play online streams. After a bit of googling, I came across the MP3 support in Amarok 2 entry in the Amarok forum which suggested a few ways of addressing the problem. In my case all I had to do was:

1. Install phonon-backend-xine package
2. Start a terminal and run the systemsettings command to get the KDE control center
3. Go to Multimedia -> Backend and selected Xine as backend
4. Start Amarok and enjoy my music :)

Probably I should mention that I am using Gnome, not KDE. Maybe Kubuntu installs phonon-backend-xine automatically so this solution may not be useful for you.

For now, I am using Amarok as any other media player, but I hope in the new versions features that were removed in the 2.0 version will appear again.

There is a hint on one of the Python webpages. It says that if you want to install Python for all users you need to run

runas /user:Administrator "msiexec /i <path>\<file>.msi"

Now there are two problems: First, depending on your version of Vista, you may or may not have a user called Administrator. The second problem is that this command does not seem to work even if you replace Administrator with a user name that is in the administrators’ group.

The solution seems to be quite simpler:

1. Log in as a user who is in the administrators’ group (if you do not know what is that and you are the only user of the computer, then you are probably an administrator and you do not need to worry)
2. Create a file run.bat somewhere on your computer
3. Edit the contents of the file and put the following command:
   msiexec /i <path-to-python-installer>\python-2.6.msi
   (e.g. msiexec /i c:\Users\dinel\Desktop\python-2.6.msi)
4. Save the file
5. Right click on the run.bat file and select “Run as administrator”
6. Install python making sure you install for all users not only for yourself.
7. Enjoy IDLE :)

This solution seems to work on Vista Home Premium Edition. Please let me know if it also works on other versions of Vista.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=75v_brYFdwk

The installation of the program is very easy. You need to go to Google Chrome page and download a small installer (about 400k). After that, the setup program downloads the files necessary for installation, but unfortunately it does not give you any indication how big are these files. Anyhow, they cannot be too big because the whole process took less than one minute (but some transparency would be nice).

After playing with the browser for about one hour, I have to admit that I am impressed. The browser is presented as Beta, but all my attempts to make it crash failed. I visited a wide range of pages: many normal HTML pages with little Javascript, as well as big fat Web 2.0 monsters (e.g. last.fm). Everything run very smoothly. Even one of my webpages, which uses Javascript and for some unknown reason has an error in Internet Explorer (but not in any other browser), is displayed without any problem.

One of the features of the browser is supposed to be its speed … and trust me it is fast. I tried pages with lots of photos and they were rendered at the speed of light. Scrolled through my 200+ emails in my Yahoo mail inbox without the usual delay I notice in Firefox.

If I want to be picky, I can find things which would be nice to be improved. Chrome passes the Acid1 and Acid2 tests without a problem, but achieves only 77 out of 100 points in the Acid3 test, which in the end is not bad at all. For comparison the browsers I have installed on my computer obtain:

• IE8: 18 out 100 and what it displays is a mess,
• Firefox 2.0: 53 out 100 and the result is nowhere near what it is supposed to be,
• Safari 3.1.2 74 out of 100 with an ok result, and
• Opera 9.52: 83 out of 100 with a result very close to what it is supposed to be.

Just for fun the images are below.

Currently Java applets do not seem to run in Chrome. When I played a Flash movie the image was a bit bad at the beginning, but it become ok after a while (it may be that Vista decided to use all the processor to do one of its unknown things for a few seconds). Finally, the most annoying thing is that there is no status bar, so when you hover over a link a bit of the page gets covered, but I suppose we will get used to it in a while and find the status bar annoying.

Probably, I should mention that the start page with the most visited pages looks nice, but it is nothing new. The address bar functions like a search engine, but we are already used to something like this from Firefox 3.0. For the moment there are no extensions (and more important for me right now, no spellchekers), but I am sure they will appear soon. The current version of Chome seems to be mainly for developers and it includes very good support for debugging and examining the contents of a page. I wonder whether the Inspect element will make it to the final release.

So all in all, I can say that Google Chrome is a very nice browser, but for the moment all I can do is sit and wait for the Linux version, because I am not going to spend more time in Vista … and while I sit and wait I will wonder whether Chrome is a step forward or is just another browser on which our pages will have to be tested and for which we will have snippets of code written specially to avoid its bugs.

The second bug I mentioned was that I cannot reboot or shutdown my computer. In the end it doesn’t seem to be a bug as such. The new Ubuntu seems to use a new system of authorizations which indicates what actions a user can perform including rebooting and shutting down the system. As you may imagine none of the users on my computer was allowed to reboot the system. If you want to find out more go to System/Administration/Authorizations. So this should solve the problem of rebooting the system.

Now it’s time to find out why I cannot access my user directory from a browser even though the userdir module is enabled in apache.