Category Archives: computers

Turn off the linux console display

Posted on July 1, 2010 by kerneljack

I needed a way to turn off the display on an old netbook that I am using as a low-powered server. I installed CentOS 5.5 on the netbook and set the ‘inittab’ to boot into console mode by default however … Continue reading →

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Links for June 3, 2007

Posted on June 3, 2007 by kerneljack

Fedora 7 is released!: I really liked the last Fedora release, but I believe it was slightly plagued by problems with some of it’s package management utilities. I have already installed this release and am quite impressed. Wireless now works … Continue reading →

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LinuxWorld 2006

Posted on October 26, 2006 by kerneljack

LinuxWorld started yesterday here in rainy London and I had a great time! It was the first time ever that I wasn’t a visitor, but was helping out at the Jokosher stand. I did several demos of the app to … Continue reading →

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Wierd Java error on my Mac

Posted on October 16, 2006 by kerneljack

I turned my computer on today to get some work done, started Eclipse and started coding. When I tried to use the command-line though, I got this strange error: Error: no known VMs. (check for corrupt jvm.cfg file) I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Always buy RAM from Crucial

Posted on May 2, 2006 by kerneljack

I needed some extra RAM in my 512MB laptop to do some Java heavy lifting (Eclipse, Netbeans, JBoss, Profilers, etc). Those things can take up a lot of RAM, not leaving much for Firefox and other apps. Seeing that my … Continue reading →

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Apple’s Boot Camp – easily install XP on a Mac!

Posted on April 5, 2006 by kerneljack

Wow this is unbelievable! Apple has officially released a public beta of Boot Camp which allows anyone to take a Windows XP CD and install it on a Intel Mac complete with dual-boot! I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere today … Continue reading →

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Scoble’s Dashboard Spy

Posted on April 2, 2006 by kerneljack

With all the April Fools jokes flying around, The Scobleizer Dashboard has got to be funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. It would be great if someone actually came up with something like this so a blogger can instantly … Continue reading →

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Doing quick tasks in Python

Posted on March 31, 2006 by kerneljack

A lot of the time at work I have to come up with quick solutions to various programming problems, and I mean *real* quick. There is usually very little time for finding the right library or open source toolkit that … Continue reading →

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Windows XP on a Mac!

Posted on March 27, 2006 by kerneljack

The motherboard on my server died 2 weeks ago and it’s taken me this long to find a replacement and get the server up and running again. A benefit of changing the motherboard is that now the server is even … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails

Posted on March 7, 2006 by kerneljack

“Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a … Continue reading →

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Yahoo’s new RSS + SMS service

Posted on December 2, 2005 by kerneljack

Yahoo has started a new RSS + SMS service, but reading about it, I’m really not sure what I use I would put it to: RSS + SMS As Russ has already mentioned, it’s typical use case is not the … Continue reading →

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Mmmmm – Just look at that glaze!

Posted on November 2, 2005 by kerneljack

Mmmmm – 20051101_0047 Originally uploaded by EngelFish. They look like Krispy Kreme, been so long since I’ve been there …

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Microsoft at the PDC

Posted on September 23, 2005 by kerneljack

A lot of cool stuff has been coming out of Microsoft recently at the PDC. You can watch the webcast of the event here. Here is a short summary of some of the announcements, linking to a Channel 9 video … Continue reading →

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PlayLouder MSP: legally share music using P2P!

Posted on August 26, 2005 by kerneljack

[PlayLouder MSP](http://www.playloudermsp.com/thenews.html) is a new Music ISP that’s going to be launched in the UK in a few days. They’ve got a brilliant idea that frankly a lot of other people should have thought of sooner. Basically you can freely … Continue reading →

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WebOS and the future of the Web

Posted on August 25, 2005 by kerneljack

[Jason Kottke](http://www.kottke.org) has an interesting write-up about how he envisions the future of the OS and the Web. The gist of his post can be summed up in the following points: 1. The OS can be made irrelevant by people … Continue reading →

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Back online!

Posted on August 23, 2005 by kerneljack

Finally after waiting for over two weeks I have my net connection back. We just moved home again and it seems we are too far from the exchange this time to get a 2Mbps connection so we’ve settled for 1Mbps. … Continue reading →

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PSPCasting?

Posted on May 16, 2005 by kerneljack

Having written about podcasting in the last post, I was reading this month’s [Wired](http://www.wired.com) magazine when I came across the word pspcasting and was perplexed I hadn’t come across it before. It’s basically a way to use RSS again to … Continue reading →

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A Quieter PC

Posted on April 4, 2005 by kerneljack

I agree wholeheartedly with Inderjeet [here](http://weblogs.java.net/blog/inder/archive/2005/04/quest_for_a_sil.html) about quieter PCs. I have also rebuilt my old Athlon PC which I had lying around by doing the following: * Replacing the case for a [special case](http://www.quietpc.com/uk/cases.php#acc6607) designed with noise reduction in mind. … Continue reading →

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J2EE/EJB Persistence Frameworks

Posted on April 2, 2005 by kerneljack

I need to start investigating alternative persistence frameworks whenever I get some free time. I’ve tried looking at Hibernate in the past but just couldn’t find the time to implement a small project properly in it and understand the benefits. … Continue reading →

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John Carmack is blogging!

Posted on March 31, 2005 by kerneljack

http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc This is very cool, I’ve always admired Carmack for his technical abilities and his abilities to quickly get down and dirty with any new technology. For example in his post about mobile games he starts off with “dusting off … Continue reading →

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