Monthly Archives: April 2006

Passed the Web Services Basic exam

Posted on April 26, 2006 by peter

Web Services Basic 2006-04-26 exam page 3 Passed…. bumped my total to 56 knowledge points… now… I’ll have to wait for new exams to become stable, it’s just not possible to get a brown belt yet.

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WIFI, again

Posted on April 25, 2006 by peter

Today I replaced our US Robotics access point by a Linksys WRT54g, hopefully to get rid of all the connection problems we had before. After configuring the iBook and WinXP machine I tried to get my laptop to associate with … Continue reading →

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Dapper & Compiz: huge memory footprint

Posted on April 21, 2006 by peter

After using compiz/xgl for a week (yes, you DO get used to wobbly windows and rotating cubes). I kept noticing the huge ammount of memory used by compiz/xgl… On my 1Gig system it was using arround 500MB! Since running eclipse … Continue reading →

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Feeling blue…

Posted on April 21, 2006 by peter

Passed my OO Intermed today, and skipped the green belt… straight on to the blue belt! Since I’ve been busy passing exams lately, I’m now only 7 knowledge points away from my brown belt… which is currently the highest achievable … Continue reading →

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Not a blue belt yet…

Posted on April 19, 2006 by peter

Today I passed the magic number of 45 knowledge points by passing the Ant basic exam. I hoped this would be sufficient to get my blue belt… but no… So, I’ll have to wait a couple of days so I … Continue reading →

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A fishy tale

Posted on April 16, 2006 by peter

As a kid I was (and, come to think of it I still am) intruiged by the way the archer fish hunts. The fish hunts insects and other small animals by shooting them down with a small ray of water: … Continue reading →

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JBB Update

Posted on April 14, 2006 by peter

I pointed my colleagues at the VPRO to Java Black Belt, and some of them (rob / edwin) seem to be really enjoying it. Rob is approaching my level at rampaging pace, hopefull I’ll be green belt before he manages … Continue reading →

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Inspiron 5150, ubuntu & wireless (MiniPci 1350)

Posted on April 12, 2006 by peter

Posting wireless now, got wireless to work using ndiswrapper Took me a bit longer than expected, mainly caused by  lspci reporting the cards as: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306. I tried to get stuff to work using a driver for this card, … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu on Inspiron 5150

Posted on April 12, 2006 by peter

Today my accountmanager brought me my company laptop:a full blown inspiron 5150! Allthough I’ll really miss the widescreen of my Inspiron 8500 lots of stuff to be happy about: 3.2 Ghz P4 /HT 1 Gig of ram 80 Gig hd … Continue reading →

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DWR 2.0 (ms 1) with ‘reverse ajax’ released

Posted on April 11, 2006 by peter

Today the DWR project has released version 2.0 milestone 1. The releasenotes claim the most import new feature is ‘reverse ajax’: The biggest new feature is what we call Reverse Ajax. DWR 1.x allowed you to asynchronously call Java code … Continue reading →

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