Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Mac users have long had a plethora of apps and devices for remotely controlling their computers. A frequent use for this is controlling presentations when presenting to a group, with a laptop connected to a projector.
I wanted this functionality for my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop, while using OpenOffice.org's Impress application, but ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, iPhone | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
I updated my server to the 9.10 "Karmic Koala" release of Ubuntu.
Unlike my recent laptop upgrade, I upgraded instead of doing a fresh install - I have too much software installed there to go through re-installation if I don't have to.
As I have mentioned here before, one of the things ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, Virtualization | 6 Comments »
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Ubuntu's 9.10 Karmic Koala release dropped yesterday, and I dove right in, downloaded it (via BitTorrent), and installed it on my aging Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.
I didn't do an upgrade, I reformatted my primary partition, and installed it clean. I keep my /home directory on a separate partition precisely so ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 10 Comments »
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
My employer, Chariot Solutions, held an in-house, week-long iPhone development course, taught by the folks at Big Nerd Ranch.
The course was great, we all learned a lot, and several of our folks are working on some apps, including one that they announced recently at JBoss World.
80% or more of our ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, iPhone | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
As with the situation in an earlier post, the version of Subversion that is in the official Ubuntu repository is not the latest that is available elsewhere. The version that you currently get by installing Subversion on Ubuntu via apt-get is version 1.5, and 1.6 is out.
Fortunately, Anders Kaseorg has ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I've been using Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now.
So far, I've been very happy with it, and there have been some great improvements - most notably for me, the boot time - I run it on two different laptops (work and home), so I go through the boot sequence ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 8th, 2009
I got a request from a client for performance-tuning Tomcat.
Typically, I don't really do a lot performance tuning for Tomcat - usually, I front it with Apache HTTPD, and spend most of my performance tuning efforts on the application, not the server.
I got thinking about it, though, and remembered that ...
Posted in Chariot, Java, Linux, Ubuntu, tomcat | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 1st, 2009
I just arrived at JavaOne 2009, in San Fransisco, CA.
Got here pretty much just in time to register before the registration desk closes for the evening. Things really get started tomorrow.
My first impression upon arrival was, "wow - this is really big" (yes, this is my first JavaOne - can ...
Posted in Chariot, Java, Linux, Ubuntu, Virtualization | No Comments »
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I recently upgraded both of my laptops (work and home) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).
Both laptops are Dells, with Synaptic touchpads.
The default installation enables tapping and scrolling via the touchpad.
For me, both of these features get in the way, and I always turn them off.
In previous Ubuntu versions, this required ...
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Default (All-Java) Tomcat Faster Than Using Apache Portable Runtime?
