bkil vs. programming

When attempting to run ArgoUML under my custom install of Debian Lenny, it died on startup with the following: "ERROR: unable to get localhost information. java.net.UnknownHostException (...)" solution: check the output of the command hostname , add a line corresponding to that name to the file /etc/hosts Anyway, it might be a great piece of software, but I didn't have much luck with the functionality I needed. Namely, my simple collaboration diagram got its indexes all mixed up.

These things have been working for weeks now, it's just that I've been too lazy up till now to write it all down! :-D I have found a new workaround for the notorious Xv flickering bug in my mature S3 Trio3D video card. I have tested it in fullscreen before but it invariably makes it worse: it only displays (the upper) half of the canvas (while the other half is blue). However, I seem to have forgotten to experiment more on this issue, as resizing the window seems to alter the bug. It's plainly correlated to the window size: shrinking it makes it worse, while enlarging it makes it somewhat better. This is so pronounced, that enlarging it to full-window (not fullscreen) fixes it entirely! :-D In the same session a few hours back in time, the weird focus loss bug has happened to me yet again! I have been running Epiphany with the proprietary flash plugin, a flash video has just loaded in the very instant that the (unstable) MPlayer from debian-multimedia has brought up a windo...