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Usually I don't blog about Windows. But since I (have to) use it at work I am exposed to its flaws. Today I am particularly annoyed by the slowness of Eclipse, which is mainly caused by a lot of disk activity (due to a large number of large projects checked out) which is utterly slow on Windows (XP). Occasionally Eclipse would become unresponsive. What happens then is:
- Eclipse widgets clutter the screen: an opened menu stays on top of all other windows.
- The task bar becomes unusable: clicking the window buttons doesn't do anything. At the same time some of them start blinking like crazy.
- Although some window is highlighted the input focus is somewhere else.
- The whole system becomes slow and sluggish.
Use a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu (or some other distro). Simple.
Uhm... maybe I should really run Windows in a VM on top of Gentoo instead :-)
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Routing through a parking
Google Maps has mapped an underground parking in Zurich and includes it into their routing data. This can lead to funny routes:
No ext3 on Android?
It seems like the only filesystem supported on the HTC Hero's SD card is FAT. That is sad, since Linux supports no less than 40 filesystems. And the only option you have is the worst of them? Something is going terribly wrong at Google.
has it occurred to you that FAT is the only file system that works when you insert the SD card into a Mac or PC?
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Who cares if all I want is interop with a Linux system? Besides, there are drivers for the others. Even if I take the SD card and format it with ext2, the Android would reformat it with FAT. Again, something is going terribly wrong here.
I hate Snap previews
You know, these litte annyoing pop-up previews, that some idiots of webmasters include in their websites. Luckily you can globally disable them, by clicking a link on the Snap website. See For the Visitors section in their FAQ.
Linus' quotes
Reality is different, and anybody who thinks specs matter over reality should get out of kernel programming NOW.
And anybody who thinks others don't have the "right to choice", and then tries to talk about "freedoms" is a damn hypocritical moron.
Anybody who thinks anything else [about mobile computing] is just unbelievably misguided.
Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just wrong. It's that simple.
Anybody who thinks that the non-executable stack gives them any real security is very very much living in a dream world.
Whoever came up with this solution [writeback caches] was a moron, no ifs, buts or maybes about it.
And anybody who thinks that single-threading is going away is so totally out to lunch that it's not even fun.
And anybody who thinks others don't have the "right to choice", and then tries to talk about "freedoms" is a damn hypocritical moron.
Anybody who thinks anything else [about mobile computing] is just unbelievably misguided.
Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just wrong. It's that simple.
Anybody who thinks that the non-executable stack gives them any real security is very very much living in a dream world.
Whoever came up with this solution [writeback caches] was a moron, no ifs, buts or maybes about it.
And anybody who thinks that single-threading is going away is so totally out to lunch that it's not even fun.
Charts
This week's Swiss Top 20 charts are a bit boring: 7 albums (all of the top 3) and 11 singles from Michael Jackson.... People are crazy.
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I don't want to register with 5000 blog sites just to be able to post a comment. Please turn this stupid feature off. Yes, there is comment spam. But there are other effective means to manage that. If you want comments then make it easy for people. Your comment spam is not their problem. So don't offload/relay this annoyance to your readers.
I don't want to register with 5000 blog sites just to be able to post a comment. Please turn this stupid feature off. Yes, there is comment spam. But there are other effective means to manage that. If you want comments then make it easy for people. Your comment spam is not their problem. So don't offload/relay this annoyance to your readers.
Re: Blue Balls
Apache fellow Diwaker Gupta has a funny story about the double meaning of "blue balls". I'd like to point my reader to another instance of this linguistical accident on a much more public level. There is a Swiss Jazz music festival called Blue Balls. I had always laughed when I saw their adverts, and had asked myself how they could have possibly picked that name. It's kind of stupid to choose such a name when you're not a native English speaker and then not show it to someone that is really familiar with the language. I bet anyone could have told them that Blue Balls is maybe not such a good name after all :-)
Bringing me Jamie Lidell compensates for a lot of bad taste.
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Wikipedia is full
When trying to save an edited page I got this error message from Wikipedia:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)from within function "ExternalStoreDB::store". MySQL returned error "1114: The table 'blobs' is full (10.0.2.160)".
Crazyness in Spain
This is where Spain grows some of its olives. Explore the absolute vast area. Count the trees.
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This is where Spain produces some of Europe's vegetables. Explore the huge area. Count the green houses. Zoom out. You can surely see this even from space.
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And that looks like one of the "resorts" that were solely built for real estate investments. Nobody is and ever will be living here really. Its golf course just exists to increase its immaginary "value". Don't worry if it's not exactly this "village". There are hundreds like these in spain.
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This is where Spain produces some of Europe's vegetables. Explore the huge area. Count the green houses. Zoom out. You can surely see this even from space.
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And that looks like one of the "resorts" that were solely built for real estate investments. Nobody is and ever will be living here really. Its golf course just exists to increase its immaginary "value". Don't worry if it's not exactly this "village". There are hundreds like these in spain.
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