Category Archives: programming

Such an insightful essay …

Posted on August 28, 2007 by kerneljack

Paul Graham has impressed me time and again with his stunning insight. Whenever I read his writings, it’s as if he plucked his ideas out from my own head and then put pen to paper. His latest, Holding a Program … 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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Some web links for today

Posted on May 17, 2007 by kerneljack

I’m going to occasionally post links here that I find particularly insightful, interesting or geeky. Three things that caught my interest today: PowerTOP: Released by Intel, this utility builds on work done by kernel developers to make the Linux kernel … 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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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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