Last week, I had to get a few web applications running on my Ubuntu netbook. That shouldn’t have been too difficult: after all, I have installed Tomcat on many servers (mostly Windows-servers, admittedly, but on OSX too), and getting a web app like JSPWiki to run on Tomcat is something I have done many times. [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Take Care When Naming Tools
Posted in Java, Linux, Ubuntu, Web Development on 31/10/2011 |
Strange – or not: after a reboot, updates for Ubuntu e.a. installed flawlessly. You can forget my questions from a few days ago ;-)
An incomplete installation is, unexpectedly, incomplete. I wrote about the non-installation of a series of certificates during the upgrade to Oneiric, and yesterday I discovered the consequences: Oneiric is incapable of doing updates. Yup, not even security updates. As an Ubuntu newbie, I haven’t got a clue about how to redress the situation and add [...]
Android 4 Is Coming
Posted in Android, Mobile Computing, PDA on 20/10/2011 |
Google and Samsung have announced the new hard- and software that will set the standard (in the Android universe) for the coming months: the Galaxy Nexus (the Google Phone) and Android 4.0 (the Ice Cream Sandwich). Time to start lusting for better and/or more – it cannot be denied that there is a lot to [...]
Yesterday, my netbook proposed to install the Oneiric Ocelot aka. Ubuntu 11.10. Just a few clicks later the machine went to work for a long time (hey, it’s just a netbook, OK?) – and stopped two times with error messages. First of all, it managed not to install a long series of certificates. Near the [...]
Wanna See A Chickenosaurus?
Posted in Science on 14/10/2011 |
Well, if you do want to see a chickenosaurus (I do, yes!) you’ll have to wait. Chickenosauri don’t exist – yet. But Jack Horner is going to try and make one (or more ;-) – read all about in Wired’s article ‘How to Hatch a Dinosaur‘. Jack Horner is a well-known paleontologist, working at Montana State [...]
RIP Dennis Ritchie
Posted in Linux, Software Development, Technology on 13/10/2011 |
The news is fresh from today, apparently: Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died October 8, 2011, at the age of 70. Ritchie is best known as the inventor of the C programming language and as one of the creators of the Multics and Unix operating systems. His name isn’t as well-known as that of Steve Jobs, but [...]
Strong Worded Law
Posted in Internet, Patents, IP, Privacy and More, Technology on 11/10/2011 |
As usual, Richard Stallman isn’t shy to use strong words. Specifically: Stallman’s Law: Under corporatocracy, every advance in technology is an opportunity for corporations to reduce, in practice, the rights of human beings. I think this wording is a bit too broad. To get it right, I’m guessing you have to add in more than [...]
RIP Solyndra?
Posted in Personal on 10/10/2011 |
This is not good news: I’ve just learned that Solyndra has filed for Chapter 11 4 weeks ago. Solyndra is the company that built our solar panels; we reckoned we had chosen a good product from a reputable company. Dare I say it: we avoided Chinese panels, because several reps from installers told us the [...]
RIP Steve
Posted in Apple & Macintosh on 06/10/2011 |
I have written too much about Apple Computer Inc. not to mention the death of Steve Jobs. His famous ‘reality distortion field’ didn’t blind him from the reality of his own mortality; still, 56 is too young to die (I’m close to that age, so I can say that). No matter how you think about [...]
Nice Touch, Indeed!
Posted in Android, Design and Art, Mobile Computing, Software on 05/10/2011 |
This brings new meaning to the term “graphical tablet” – and I was so proud of my Wacom tablet a few years ago ;-)
When, Not If – But When?
Posted in Python, Software, Software Development on 04/10/2011 |
Pedro Kroger has created a Python Quick Reference Card that looks quite interesting, at least when (note: when, not if) I start using Python for more than just a few very small hacks for Wikidpad or Trac…
Today Was A Real Summer Day
Posted in Personal, Technology on 02/10/2011 |
Yes, the last week has been great, in terms of weather: we’ve had some very fine summer days. At last, many here in Belgium will say! That sunny week also upped the numbers of our solar electricity production.
