Continuing the tradition of my blog this is going to be another post about VMware Server on the latest kernels provided by the most popular distributions. This is actually an example of a paradox because I don’t use this hypervisor any more, exactly due to the patching that has to be done. Still, there are
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Today I was faced with the challenge of using two JVMs on the same machine. And let me tell you that whenever you have to do this, things get dirty. Basically I was forced to install an additional 32-bit JVM for Rodin, the IDE we use at faculty for Event-B modelling, because the developers of
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Two days ago Ubuntu 10.10 was released. Since I don’t want to upgrade yet to the new release – I am currently running 10.04 – I decided to try Maverick (the code name for the latest release) in a VirtualBox virtual machine. The installation process went fine (it’s just point and click) and I do
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jQuery is one of the greatest JavaScript frameworks with plenty of documentation for just about everything one can do with it. In my latest project I have used jQuery extensively for any UX aspect: form validations, dialogs, error messages, AJAX, UI, etc. A feature that I would really like to see implemented on all HTML
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Web feeds, as many of you surely know by now, represent a data format under which frequently updated content from various sources is provided to readers (the humans reading the content). The purpose of the web feed is therefore to inform the user of new or updated content originating from a source. Generally speaking web
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After enrolling to the University of Southampton Software Engineering MSc programme the iSolutions department (responsible with the IT infrastructure) provided me with an user account to be able to access all the facilities. The account also has an email address attached, which happens to be hosted by a Microsoft Exchange Server. And here the “conflict”
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Yesterday Oracle announced that it would sue Google over the use of Java on its Android platform. The net is screaming about this subject and most of the people commenting on it are defending Google. Although Google has its fair share of excellent contributions to the computing world, I do not think it’s fair to
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When I’ve started working with Git, besides using the quick how-to guides from the official site, I’ve also wanted to read a more detailed book about how this distributed VCS tool should be used in order to benefit from all of its functionalities. One of these books is Pro Git by Scott Chacon, from Apress.
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Since Ubuntu 9.04 appeared back in April, 2009, I’ve started building different scripts that use community supplied patches in order to make the install process of VMware Server as easy as it was supposed to be. Still it seems that many of the users of my scripts misinterpret the help I offered by asking questions
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