I’ve only recently become aware of jps and jstack, Sun’s tools for listing Java processes and for producing a thread dump from them. They beat the old ps | fgrep java and kill -3 (and then try to find the log file your thread dump went into…).
You still have to use jps, copy the appropriate [...]
The year 2329. Two humans in ostentatiously futuristic garb are removing a 21st century human from a block of ice.
Future Human 1: “What is your name?”
21st Century Human: “Jake — what happened to me?!?”
Future Human 2: “You have been frozen for 300 years”
Jake: “Thanks for thawing me out — what are your names?”
FH1: “We have [...]
I received the ‘Eastern Economy Edition’ of “Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages” last week.
It’s a well constructed hardcover.
The negative points are: - It has an ‘inky’ smell. - The paper is thinner than usual, so you can see the printing on the other side of the page.
Neither is a real problem.
I haven’t ordered this yet, but www.biblio.com has some tempting deals:
Emboldened by my previous success, I decided to translate the subject of some Chinese-language spam: 卓越的指引管理让战斗力数倍提升
Apparently this means: “Excellent management guidelines several times to enhance the combat effectiveness”
I don’t know if the translation is inaccurate or the subject is poorly written.
It reminds me of the apocryphal story about the translation software which when used from [...]
I finally got around to ordering a new keyboard for my MacBook Pro, to replace the one which lost a few keys on our last Fedex Day.
I was a little nonplussed by this response via Paypal:
“The seller has provided the following Order Status information for your review: Order Status: 已发货”
So much for taking the supremacy of [...]
A relative of mine has a recent HP Pavillion laptop. (I suggested that she get a Mac, but she was concerned about MS Office compatibility).
I was doing some telephone support trying to reattach it to her wireless network tonight. I was ultimately unsuccessful, but I did learn two reasons why HP laptops suck.
HP has their [...]
Well at least my picture is:
Perhaps the Sudbury, Ontario municipal sculptor will use that photo as a reference when they erect a statue honoring Tom Davies…
I’ve recently found myself not blogging because I didn’t wish to inflict the posts on Planet Atlassian. So now anything non-technical which I don’t think is of interest to subscribers to this blog (Hi to both of you!) appears here.