Agile programming
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on November 28th, 2007
Gmail 2.0
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech, Tips & Tweaks, Web on November 11th, 2007
An updated version of Gmail was recently rolled out to most users just after IMAP access was released, and I got it pretty early on. However, I somehow got reverted back to the old version a few hours later and never actually figured out why, till now..
Apparently, after I got moved over to the new version, I actually switched my language preference in the settings from English (US) to English (UK). :| I sort of left it as it is since then and finally decided to find out the root cause today (after much cursing at how evil it was for me to be given access to the updated version for just a few hours..).
So if you still seem to be stuck in the old version, try the following (was suggested here):
- Click ‘Settings’ in your Gmail window (top right, close to ‘Sign Out’).
- In the drop down for ‘Gmail display language’, change it to ‘English (US)’.
Oh well, Gmail is still in beta..
More screenshots of the new version here.
More BitTorrent stuff
Posted by Benny Chew in BitTorrent, Tips & Tweaks on October 30th, 2007
I think the links are kinda old, but anyway..
Both links from TorrentFreak.
Shrinking VMware VMDK files before distribution
Posted by Benny Chew in Coding/Development, Tips & Tweaks on October 29th, 2007
Recently been researching and testing with VMware images for the deployment of our application at work which turned out to work pretty well (Ubuntu + Java 6 + MySQL + Glassfish). However, one thing which became bothersome was the overgrowing .vmdk images which didn’t seem to reduce in size even after file deletions were made in the virtual disk itself.
Again, Google came to the rescue for this, linking me to this site which gave a 2 step process for doing the shrinking. Do note that the instructions are for those who are using Windows as their host OS.
Obscure Java error
Posted by Benny Chew in Coding/Development, Java, Tips & Tweaks on October 28th, 2007
Got a “java.lang.InternalError:Can’t connect to window server” while trying to get Glassfish up and running on a Mac G5 running Mac OS X recently at work which was pretty odd as our application and Glassfish do not fire up any GUIs. After some googling, problem was fixed by adding a ‘-Djava.awt.headless=true’ to the list of system variables.
Although it was fixed relatively easily, it seems rather odd that Java would actually try to access the X server even though I was running it through a SSH terminal window (PuTTY)..
Firefox plush toy
Posted by Benny Chew in Firefox on October 28th, 2007
Just came across this recently..
I think it should be able to sell pretty well if it does go into mass production..
Source: Foxkeh’s Blog
Unfinished Project – Paper Aeroplane
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on September 13th, 2007
It’s got to $5.50 in bids so far.. Have a look for yourself here. Check out the comments too..
Screengrab in case it goes off soon:
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