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Interesting Java problems
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I’ve signed up for an account here, and it is all good… included in the shebang is the possibility of serving WAP (WML) pages. WAP!! Can you believe it?
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Just because I can use Emacs. :P And yes, Emacs is uber-nifty.
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Test
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...because Apple did a roadshow and I was so effin' impressed with Aqua and its dock. So I wanted to give WindowMaker a spin. And now I've switched to it (temporarily) from BlackBox.
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Currently searching for good Blackbox themes. I've built one myself, and am looking for new ones. Got inspiration from this (link courtesy of rainparade. Will post a screenshot soon.
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- Bought two 32MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs. Coolness. My box now runs on a 96MB of RAM, and I can safely run resoure-intensive apps without too much disk-thrashing from page swaps. Heck, Linux barely uses my swap partition.
- Reconfig'd my Slackware 8.1 installation, and almost lost all of my files in the process. Was suffering major data loss (and a semi-repeat of an incident under Mandrake), so I decided to test my luck and switch from ext3 to reiserfs. So far so good, as the system is doing better. Less disk access. I tar'd and bzip'd my home directories for the move (as I hadn't set up a separate partition for home directories— my mistake), but after reinstalling Slack, my home directory tar was corrupted (somehow). Spent a whole night recovering data.
- Managed to set up a decent set of keymaps for BlackBox, via bbkeys. My muscle memory for 'Alt-Tab' is so ingrained, I'm using it to switch windows unconciously, even in X-Windows.
- Got myself an old 300MB hard drive, courtesy of a friend of mine. I haven't decided what to use it for, but definitely not for critical data.
hdparm(8)doesn't seem to be working for my hard drive/chipset. Been trying to optimize stuff, but no dice. Running on SiS 5597 (IDE chipset 5513). </ul> </p>
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Here’s how I did it:
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Update: I was able to kludge and tweak Motorola's binary-only driver (that's now unsupported) to work with my Mandrake 8.1 installation. The modem now dials out and performs handshaking, but it won't connect (yet). Keep you people posted about any news, as well as complete details.
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... you can't help but crave for more. At least for a tech junkie like me. :)
Posts with code snippets in various (programming) languages.