From slashdot — interesting blog post titled: “finding the os x turbo button” that takes a long hard look at the real reasons for Safari’s recent, and dramatic speed increases — Apple it seems makes use of un-documented features to give Apple apps a speed boost while leaving non-apple apps out in the cold.
On a [...]
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The current Mac client for Aventail VPN WILL work under OS X Leopard — all you need to do is create a simple text file in your home directory that prevents
Open the “terminal” utilty and run the following command: touch avc.noevent
That’s it — go ahead and try connecting, should work for you now.
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I rarely get pumped out about tech startups — they are a dime a dozen — and the ideas behind them are usually bad.
Evernote is an exciting startup — when I day-dream about the future of the web — this is the sort of thing I imagine.
It’s a service that lets you take pictures of [...]
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ChatZilla
Download Statusbar
Firebug
Forcastfox
Google Browser Sync
Live HTTP Headers
Web Developer
YSlow
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I just had Shabu for the first time — a place called “Shabu House” — on Geary Boulevard.
I’ve written a Haiku to capture my experience.
slippery tofu
floating in my shabu broth
escaping chopsticks
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Filed under: General |
I’ve been struggling for weeks with my Asus P5E motherboard. My system was crashing, and the BIOS was spewing random errors about how “overclocking” failed.
I even thought the ram was defective, and I RMA’d it.
It was the BIOS. Any version past 201 has this problem. If you have a more recent version, downgrade.
Asus — fix [...]
Filed under: Hardware |
Fans of any thing, any sports team, product, or software package tend to over exagerate the greatness the object of their affection may or may not exhibit.
lighthttpd and its fans are no different. There is an interesting thread in the wikipedia mailing list inquiring about the “advertised” use of lighthttpd — pronounced “lighty” — on [...]
Filed under: Linux |
Don Brown a software engineer with atlassian the company behind Jira — has decided enough time has gone by without his complains of Maven being addressed — and has forked his own maven build.
A lot of proposed changes are around increasing the time it takes to download build dependencies, mixing the location of build requirements [...]
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Desktop Linux is reporting Ubuntu will deploy the commercial virtualization product by parallels, “parallels workstation” to its apt repositories allowing for easy installs…
Ok, this comes not long after my gripes about desktop virtualization on linux. This won’t fix it either. The problem is not that parallels is hard to install — it’s really not (dpkg [...]
Filed under: Linux, Virtualization |
All UNIX-like systems come with a ‘ps’ utility which displays the processes running — however any java application will just show up as the ‘java’ process since everything runes in the java vm.
If you are looking for insight into the processes inside a java virtual machine try: “jps” — which will print a list of [...]
Filed under: Linux, Programming |
I’ve got a few Ubuntu systems lying around, and I’ve recently started playing around with Apache Hadoop.
I had several versions of the jdk installed including the one I wanted “sun-java6-jdk” however the gcj one was the default system.
There are two steps required to change the default JVM.
1) Edit /etc/jvm, and make sure the desired JVM [...]
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Quick note on how to un-lock yourself from a failed visudo session.
f you’ve accidentally locked yourself out either via an accidental crtl-c or system restart and you were in the middle of editing /etc/sudoers via visudo there are two steps to take to restore it to a normal state (aka un-lock yourself)
I’ve done the following [...]
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In November as the reports of IAC splitting up were coming in, I asked the question Will Microsoft Buy Ask? — now that Microsoft has put in a generous offer of 44 billion at an estimated 63 percent premium of Yahoo’s current stock price I’m forced to re-evaluate that chain of thought, and admit that [...]
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Quick note:
hBase is hadoop’s answer to google’s big table — it is a massively parallel, distributed database. It’s now being promoted to its own project (on the same level as hadoop).
This is totally cool, and as the tools around hdfs and hBase improve we’ll see a whole generation of new startups built around these frameworks [...]
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