Archives for March 2007

Daily Stumbling

Found this one: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LanguagesByKeyboard. Won’t be so fantastic for most of you but if you look at perl’s comments, i got a giggle out of it. Also found this little gem: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ . It took the following image: and told me exactly what font it was! I’m impressed. Could be quite useful.

Java shows its true colors

Was working on a homework assignment in java, when i recieved this lovely notice: ## An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:## SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb789006a, pid=28425, tid=2635639696## Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.5.0_10-b03 mixed mode)# Problematic frame:# V [libjvm.so+0x3f606a]## An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid28425.log## [...]

Great Pockets Rev. 2

Important news of the day: I hit greatpockets.com via stumble upon. Fantastic stuff.

PS3: Rediculously Stupid yet Genius

Now I know that you’ve likely read hundreds of articles on the PS3, why people love it, why people hate it. I’m going to try and take a fairly neutral ground here and point out why the PS3′s release as it was is genius and also why its an utter failure. I’m going to try [...]

What to do when you lose all your data

So, I’ve finally decided to ditch my NTFS partition — wipe it, put in an EXT3, move my old data to the new EXT3, remove the old data, then expand the new EXT3 to take up the entire darn drive. The whole thing went pretty smoothly, until upon creating the new “mega” (1.2T) drive, it… [...]

Great Pockets!

www.greatpockets.com is a fantastic little getup website advertising the Nokia N95.- a phone in which i have long been a fan. It does almost everything, movies, music, GPS, (5 mp) camera – bluetooth, VOIP, games (dedicated graphics processor), big screen, good battery life etc. etc. Its got some great reviews and lots of public attention. [...]

The system, is down.

For a period of about 6 days BlueSata was down. During the break the system apparently was so depressed in my absence it decided to stop responding. However, upon my return everything appears to be running normally. Apologies about that. A handful of upgrades should still be en route for the blog itself. Not too [...]

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