I finally got tired of waiting for the prices to drop further so I bought me a little from-me-to-me present, the Intel X25-M SSD. Ubuntu 9.04 already boots pretty fast, but with this drive it’s amazing! As you can read from the chart belove it takes around 10 seconds to get to the login screen. [...]
28 Dec, 2008
Posted by: admin In: Linux| Programming
The last days I’ve been testing out Hudson (in between lots of good Christmas food of course). Hudson is “an extensible continous integration engine”. That’s fancy-talk for what I like to call a build engine. It’s able to get updates from your SVN server and build the Maven project while keeping track of tasks, unit-tests [...]
04 Dec, 2008
Posted by: admin In: Computer stuff| Linux| Webdevelopment
Sun has released version 1 of their JavaFX today see relase announcment with out any form of Linux SDK, nor mentioning anything of when or if the Linux community can expect to see any support. I think this is a huge mistake in todays marked.
Even Microsoft(!) has realized that they have to add Linux support [...]
As it turnes out you need VirtualBox non-free in order to get USB support. Bah.. That’s one wasted hour trying to activate USB support in the free edition you find in Ubuntu’s repositories.
Once I figured that out it turned out to be really easy. Just append this line to /etc/fstab
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=666 0 0
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