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search means search

when users see a box with a button labeled “search” they expect it to work like google/msn/yahoo. When such a field/button are not supplied or behave otherways (ie run a search only on the current page or some other strange stuff) users get angry.

scientific proof here

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paris

btw: Ingrid and I are in Paris, visiting John, a friend of Mike from our church in Kaiserslautern.

Its great, Paris is like vienna should be (but more expensive). we are cooking right now, have been out all day. nice to have a few days off from the semantic web….

sitting in the car to paris, i wondered about watching at the clouds: great to sit in a car and watch clouds, look out of the window, let your mind wander. I wonder when I can let my mind wander off in kaiserslautern.

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subversion, subclipse, eclipse, https and certificates

I just had a funny bug i have to blog so that googlers can find it:

Eclipse 3.x using Subclipse on windows (which works fine)

Error:
Error validating location: “org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: RA layer request failed
svn: profind request failed on /repos/foafme

Server certificate cerification failed:
issuer is not trusted (https://foafme.opendfki.de)

keep location anyway?

Problem: our crew does not sign their certificates correctly (or) and the foafme.opendfki.de thing has a SSL certificate which is not correctly signed (or whatever)

I click on “add repository” and it says “the certificate is wrong” and i say “ok” but it still doesn’t work

Solution: Take another SVN client (commandline or tortoise svn) and connect to the server, press “OK” there when the certificate question comes. Then it works in eclipse also. problem solved.