After a few days play with my new Dell Latitude E6410 I was expecting more from the “Ubuntu on the new laptop” combination. Here is a short summary for what to expect if installing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a E6410 (check the previous post on the subject). Video card – nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2). Works with default version Nvidia driver from Ubuntu but the log is full of errors:...
I have been delaying buying a new laptop for as much as I could but a decision have to be made sooner or later so I find myself being caught again in the laptop research process. The current one, a Dell Latitude D820 has served me well but I would greatly enjoy some improvement in the compilation times and overall speed. However looking at the available choices I am not in any way thrilled of joy and for the first time I am asking myself a new question: “should I buy a Mac?...
Did I missed the old times when installing Linux on a laptop was a bit tricky? I seems so since installing the latest Ubuntu (10.10 Maverick Meerkat) on a Dell Latitude E6410 (with Nvidia graphics card) was by no means a breeze. Update 20100115: I summarized/updated all the hardware part in a separate article, check for updates. Installation All started when, full of confidence, I booted the usb stick with the Linux install expecting everything to work as a charm and ended up staring at a black screen....
My first hi-res laptop was a Dell I8000 which had a, huge at the time, resolution of 1600×1200. It was quite expensive because of this but also a wonderful and productive experience. My next laptop was also a Dell, a I8600, which had a “wide-screen”. This means it had a 1680×1050 resolution. The switch was not so heavy even if I lost 150px in one shot. I moved the panels (as in gnome panels) to the right and gained some extra space....
Introduction JbossCache is a wonderfully complex piece of software. Trying to use it with Hibernate might seem an easy task at first but in reality it can also prove wonderfully complicated. First question is: why would you consider using it in the first place? Compared to ehcache for instance there are a few theoretical advantages: clustering (scalability), configurability and jmx monitoring. Next question which is not quite obvious is which version to use?...
If you are using cookies for inter-context communication you will notice after migrating from JBoss 4 to 5 that they just don’t work. If you take the time to do some cookie debuging you will notice that in JBoss 5 the cookies are bound to the context as shown bellow: Name JSESSIONID Value ACF23793236E94A664E652AA77AC7578 Host localhost Path /myApp/ Secure No Expires At End Of Session This means there is no way this cookie can be used to comunicate with /myApp2/ for instance....
My Dell D820 broke yesterday a few months after the warranty expiration. There is a sadness associated with the moment your laptop is broke which cannot be explained. I had this feeling with this laptop 3 times already. I think the next question will be not: “which dell should I buy?” but rather “which laptop should I buy?” which is far more complicated. Anyway I realised in 11 years since I own Dell laptops most of the criteria for choosing one are the same:...
I’ve been running qmail based mail servers for years. And you can imagine how many if I am planning this migration from at least 3 years. To be very honest qmail does a very very good job. This is the reason it took so much time to actually do it. In fact qmail has only one problem: it’s stuck in the past. If you want to install something new: say SPF of DKIM you need to patch, recompile....
Track summary no 1463: Client detected a bug. Bug replication took 2.5h. Bug correction took 2 min. Modification consisted of unification of several cases where position of b in XML is variable a.b => a..b. Project compilation 10 minutes. Actual difference in code is insignificant. Total time: over 3h.
As a pidgin user I am used at not expecting many fancy things but one of the features I’ve wished for some time is a plugin which updates the status automatically to the last entry in a RSS feed. As an example I’d like to update the status to the last post on my blog. So, even if I don’t like perl too much here is a simple plugin which does just that....