http://lahsiv.net/blog telling it like it is Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:19:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GemFire Enterprise: http://gemstone.com/products/gemfire The premier in-memory distributed data management platform now with VMware/SpringSource. Nokia's N900: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 and http://maemo.nokia.com/n900 Runs a 600 mhz ARM Cortex A8 (65 nm, 32 bit RISC TI OMAP 3430) CPU and 256 MB RAM. After installing mmjre and bash on the N900, let its console output do the talking: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nokia-N900:/opt/gfe6032/product/quickstart# uname ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=48 One-line executive summary: If you face slowness, hangs, filesystem corruption and/or lots of dmesg errors about ata try adding " libata.force=noncq " to your linux kernel boot options. I recently bought a Crucial branded 128 GB solid state disk (SSD) model CT128M225 of the M225 range because they're the hot new ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=47 The gist: Test driven on Sunday October 4th. Driven home from the dealer's on Saturday October 17th. Bought a new silver Honda Civic 1.8 S MT! And like the marketing slogan claims "It drives you", yes, it does drive me. I also test drove the Toyota Corolla Altis a week before the Civic and even ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=46 I voted for the first time a few months ago to elect an MP. On Tuesday October 13th voting was for MLAs and I voted again. The first time I cast my vote for an independent which I now feel was a waste. This time around I voted for Congress. ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=44 I've previously blogged about my very brief encounters with open source development here and here. Recently I came across the following blog posts on Planet KDE which inspired me to write this blog post: Road to KDE devland Step 0 Road to KDE devland Step 1 Road to KDE devland Step 2 Those blog links ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=42 Ever since Windows 7 and KDE 4.2 were available I started placing my taskbar vertically to the left of my widescreen LCD. On Windows 7 it works and looks great but on KDE 4.2 the running application icons are of a small size and the title text is hardly visible ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=41 I regularly work with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with SP1 on my Pentium 4 single-core non-hyperthreading based PC and occasionally run some builds on an Athlon 64 X2 dual core based PC. I noticed the compiler (cl.exe) is a single process with a single thread running, even on the dual ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=40 There was an interesting show on TV's History Channel a few days ago (which aired in March last year in the US) called "Decoding The Past - Doomsday 2012: The End Of Days". The show was about December 21, 2012 which has been predicted to be the Apocalypse by various ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=39 It's been a while since I visited Microsoft's Channel 9 website and watched any of the videos. There was a recent video of Mark Russinovich which made me go back and browse for new stuff. I just watched Mark's interview video and it was okay. Looking around I see there are ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=38 I'd been using this multi-protocol chat program called Miranda which is for Windows and is open source. It has a nice plugin called "Webaware" which allows you to store your current chat status on your website so you can display it on your webpages. Recently another piece of open source software ... http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=37