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Saw on the TV the other morning the launch of the new Tickle me Elmo doll, the new version is the TMX.. (Tickle Me eXtreme??)

any who, it is as funny as.. I knew there would be some video up, and yep there is.. Check it out on Google Video.

TMX Elmo - Google Video

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We completed the most recent Right Odds this afternoon and I think it was pretty good. We got Howard Walter in to chat bout the queensland racing and fil made his debut covering the NBL.

For those who don't know about the Right Odds, its a weekly podcast that Peter Lucas and I do discussing the next weeks sporting events.

This week we covered the finals in AFL and NRL. A bit of racing with Howard. We started of the coverage of the NBL with fil and discussed the A-League, EPL, NFL and even the Davis Cup.

Head over to http://www.bestbets.com.au/content/TRO/
to get the latest info.

You can subscribe in iTunes by searching for "Best Bets" or "Right Odds", or even just add this as a direct link http://www.bestbets.com.au/content/TRO/index.xml

Feel free to post comments here or feedback on Best Bets.

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After way too long, I have got whitesquaresoft back online. I've had to move the server to work and hopefully we shall remain online.

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We have just recorded the 3rd installment of The Right Odds at Best Bets, and this week I got to co-host the episode with Pete Lucas.

You can find the feed for The Right Odds here, along with the main Best Bets website here.

This is a link to allow you to subscribe to The Right Odds with iTunes.

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After hunting around to get JDK6.0 Beta2 on ubuntu working, I found a post on the debian-java mailing list that shows some simple changes to allow java-package to generate a debian package correctly.

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-java@lists.debian.org/msg10870.html

From the site it is:

Adapting java-package to 6.0 was nothing more than trivial.

(1)
# cd /usr/share/java-package
# cp -ax sun-j2sdk1.5 sun-j2sdk6.0

(2)

sun-j2sdk.sh is the script that handles the Sun JDK (you know better than me) and it needs only a few tweaking:

# diff -u sun-j2sdk.sh.orig sun-j2sdk.sh
--- sun-j2sdk.sh.orig 2005-04-22 19:33:46.000000000 +0200
+++ sun-j2sdk.sh 2006-05-16 22:01:28.948657750 +0200
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
j2se_expected_min_size=130
found=true
;;
+ "jdk-6-beta"*) # EXPERIMENTAL
+ j2se_version=6.0.0+beta-${archive_name:17:2}
+ j2se_expected_min_size=100
+ found=true
+ ;;
esac
;;
"ia64-linux")

Now make-jpkg handles Java 6.0 Mustang binary snapshots as it dows with 5.0 releases.

$ fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6-beta2-bin-b84-linux-i586-11_may_2006.bin
...
$ ls sun*
sun-j2sdk6.0_6.0.0+beta-84_i386.deb

The only changes I had were that I had to change
j2se_version=6.0.0+beta-${archive_name:17:2}
to
j2se_version=6.0.0+beta-${archive_name:10:1}

This was due to me using the jdk-6-beta2-linux-i586.bin binary instead of the one specified in the thread.

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