Recently a good friend of mine managed to uninstall all the kernels from his Ubuntu machine (what can I say - Monday morning and no coffee is a deadly combination). Luckily he had the install CD on hand so we did the following:

1. Boot from the CD (we had Internet connection ...

is when the user is the busiest, for example when s/he just started your application. See for example the screenshot below with Adobe Air (click trough to see it in its full beauty).

While the home-folder encryption in Ubuntu is far from a perfect solution (there is considerable data leakage from the swap file and the temp directory - for example once I’ve observed the flash videos from Chromium ~~porn~~ private browsing mode being present in the /tmp directory), it is a partial ...

I’ve already written about Scentsy Products, so I will try not to repeat myself that much (other than reiterating that you should really think before investing in a referral system) and will focus on their special product:

Piece by Piece Full-Size Scentsy Warmer – this a usual warmer (usual for ...

There isn’t much I can say about this company. They seem very legitimate by all indications (domain name registered more than 10 years ago, with the physical address of the company, no complaints on the web, etc). Their goal seems also very laudable: creating playground surfacing out of recycled ...

Today I’m reviewing a site which has the goal of comparing different private health insurance companies and giving you the cheapest one. Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the USA insurance rules (because I’m on a different continent :-)), so I can only comment on generic impressions related to ...

As I found out “on my own skin”, setting fs.file-max in /etc/sysctl.conf is a BAD idea. It can render your system useless in one step. Please don’t do it! If you did it, use the recovery mode to roll back the change. Also, currently I would ...

I have the following problem: a Java application was running out of memory. It was not feasible to mandate 64 bit JVM for this application and the \~1.4G limit wasn’t enough.

My solution was to implement a Map which - when an element is added - also saves the value ...

I just realized that running sushi is the best fast-food ever. (Yes, I have strong opinions weakly held):

• You get you food in small chunks, so you can stop at any time and still don ...

Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website.

Microbenchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance characteristics (like CPU, memory or I/O) of a small piece of code to determine which would be better suited for a particular scenario. If I could offer but one advice on this, it would be ...