I run Fedora Core 4 on an AMD 64 laptop. I had problems with OpenOffice not recognizing my JVM. After some research, I found out that OO.o is a 32 bit application and will not recognize/work with 64 bit JVMs. I installed a 32 bit JVM and was able to get OO.o to recognize it. Since Star Office is based on OO.o, I assume the problem the author had with SO and the Java installer is similar.
I wrote a more detailed article on getting OO.o to work with Java on 64 bit platforms, it can be found here
I like Mastering Oracle SQL from O'Reilly. It assumes no previous familiarity with SQL.
If you are looking to do stored procedures, it touches briefly on PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language), which an Oracle proprietary language, but does not explain it in depth.
For SQL, and specifically explaining Oracle's quirks and proprietary functions, it is very good.
I've said it before, It doesn't really matter if Dell is doing this to get a discount from Microsoft.
If this is really the reason they are doing this, it is because it is an effective strategy to get those discounts. The fact that it is an effective strategy is reason enough to celebrate.
I always wondered why Linux is not more widely deployed in workplace workstations. With the greatly reduced threat of virii and spyware, seems like a no brainer to me, especially for IT workers.
I just bought a R4000 from Compaq (R4025CA to be exact) and am having the same issues. Kubuntu is the only linux that correctly set up the display to 1280x800 but it crashes as soon as you login.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu, I worked around it by using the vesa driver. I haven't tried the proprietary driver yet.
I'm not sure about the sound card.. I tried the Suse 9.3 Live DVD and it didn't recognize the sound card at all, although I've heard it should be supported in Alsa.
Sound card works out of the box in Ubuntu, usiing Alsa.
After some messing around I got the touchpad scrollbar to work, the trick was to add the following modules, in this order, to/etc/modules:
tsdev
evdev
psmouse
And set X.org to use/dev/gpmdata as the mouse device.
I am running gpm, not sure if it makes a difference, but it probably does.
There is no rc.local or/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl,
however, after some googling, I found out there is a shell script executed at boot time in/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. I added the modprobe -r psmouse, modprobe psmouse to that script, now I don't have to do it manually on every boot.
Another question - are you comparing with the 64bit version of XP? You're not are you?
Nope, just the crappy 32 bit version of XP home that came preinstalled with the laptop (and that I never intended to use).
Have you tried 32bit Linux on it? I would put money on it working a lot better.
I'm thinking about it and might give it a shot. It will probably help with Eclipse crashing, I somehow doubt the video card and touchpad will work to its full potential.
I mean for God's sake, what advantage are you expecting from 64bit support on a laptop?
Blazing fast compilation times? Who knows, I dropped my old laptop and that was the end of it (I was happily running Ubuntu 32 bit on it) and needed to get a new one, I got a good deal on this one.
Planning on installing more than 4GB of RAM are you?
Maybe someday I will.
Try comparing like for like.
I don't have access to a 64 bit version of windows, don't know how much one would set me back, I hope the fact that I'm using windows now is temporary, while linux distros get better support for the hardware on the laptop.
I just got an HP ZV6000 series laptop, featuring an AMD 64 processor. I got it with all the intention of installing Ubuntu for AMD 64 on it.
To say that the laptop is not linux friendly is an understatement. There are no drivers for the video card, you can get X.org sort of working with the vesa driver. The touchpad is partially supported, scroll bar doesn't work and you need to resort to tricks to make it work (remove and readd the psmouse module).
I installed the latest Java development kit for Linux AMD 64 on it, followed by Eclipse. Eclipse keeps crashing every few minutes.
Although my intention was to run Ubuntu on this laptop, I find myself booting to Windows XP home all the time just to get some work done.
Doesn't really matter, no one would be doing it if it wasn't an effective strategy. The fact that it is an effective strategy is reason enough to celebrate.
I'm not sure what is popular in Finland, but here in the USA, most J2EE projects involve Servlets, JSPs and EJBs (by far the most popular type of EJB are stateless session beans, most places stay away from Entity Beans). Many shops use Struts as well.
Download JBoss or JOnAS (open source J2EE App Servers) and get some experience on the above technologies.
One tool that will make your life a lot easier is XDoclet, but I would recommend that you do things "the hard way" a couple of times before you start using it.
I'm not sure what is popular in Finland, but here in the USA, most J2EE projects involve Servlets, JSPs and EJBs (by far the most popular type of EJB are stateless session beans, most places stay away from Entity Beans). Many shops use Struts as well.
Download JBoss or JOnAS (open source J2EE App Servers) and get some experience on the above technologies.
One tool that will make your life a lot easier is XDoclet, but I would recommend that you do things "the hard way" a couple of times before you start using it.
I downloaded RC 5 last night, and ran the SwingSetDemo. I noticed the GTK look and feel looks better than with JDK 1.4, it (more or less) uses the GTK theme you are using. I did notice a couple of bugs, sliders didn't display correctly, and the InternalFrames don't show up (the console displays a NullPointerException).
I like the Swing API, but I don't like the emulated Look and Feel. I like the native look and feel of SWT, but I don't like the API. The best solution for someone like me is to use SwingWT.
It is a wrapper around SWT, using the Swing API, porting existing Swing code to SwingWT is trivial, just replace java.awt.* with swingwt.* and javax.swing.* with swingwtx.swing.* and you are done.
"If you look at the just-in-time compilers and things like the Java HotShot Virtual Machine, they are very much oriented toward maximizing throughput"
Is this a typo? I've heard of the HotSpot virtual
machine, not HotShot, a Google search for "HotShot Virtual Machine" didn't come up with anything that would clarify this.
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I wrote an introductory article on Wicket a while back. A First Look At The Wicket Framework.
find . -name '*.ext' |xargs grep -i bar
finds all the files having the extension 'ext' and matching the pattern 'bar'.
I run Fedora Core 4 on an AMD 64 laptop. I had problems with OpenOffice not recognizing my JVM. After some research, I found out that OO.o is a 32 bit application and will not recognize/work with 64 bit JVMs. I installed a 32 bit JVM and was able to get OO.o to recognize it. Since Star Office is based on OO.o, I assume the problem the author had with SO and the Java installer is similar.
I wrote a more detailed article on getting OO.o to work with Java on 64 bit platforms, it can be found here
Trackit is a very interesting issue tracking software.
I wrote a brief intro/howto article about Trackit that can be seen here.
I second the motion to try Echo2. I wrote a couple of Echo2 reviews that can be seen
here and here.
I like Mastering Oracle SQL from O'Reilly. It assumes no previous familiarity with SQL.
If you are looking to do stored procedures, it touches briefly on PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language), which an Oracle proprietary language, but does not explain it in depth.
For SQL, and specifically explaining Oracle's quirks and proprietary functions, it is very good.
I've said it before, It doesn't really matter if Dell is doing this to get a discount from Microsoft.
If this is really the reason they are doing this, it is because it is an effective strategy to get those discounts. The fact that it is an effective strategy is reason enough to celebrate.
I always wondered why Linux is not more widely deployed in workplace workstations. With the greatly reduced threat of virii and spyware, seems like a no brainer to me, especially for IT workers.
I wrote an article about this topic a while back, it can be seen at: http://ensode.net/linux_workplaces.html
This looks like a step in the right direction towards increasing the use of Linux workstations in the workplace?
I wrote a JBoss tutorial a while back. It is for an older version of JBoss, but most of the content is still relevant today.
http://ensode.net/jboss_intro.html
Approximately 70% of the visitors to my site use Firefox. The site attracts mainly a techy crowd, though.
With well known companies like Google and IBM endorsing Linux, I wonder why it isn't more widely used in the enterprise?
I wrote some thoughts about that in my website earlier today.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu, I worked around it by using the vesa driver. I haven't tried the proprietary driver yet.
I'm not sure about the sound card.. I tried the Suse 9.3 Live DVD and it didn't recognize the sound card at all, although I've heard it should be supported in Alsa.
Sound card works out of the box in Ubuntu, usiing Alsa.
After some messing around I got the touchpad scrollbar to work, the trick was to add the following modules, in this order, to /etc/modules:
tsdev
evdev
psmouse
And set X.org to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device.
I am running gpm, not sure if it makes a difference, but it probably does.
I put the following in rc.local:
/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl
/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl,
however, after some googling, I found out there is a shell script executed at boot time in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh.
# Kludge so touchpad works
echo -n "reconnect" >
There is no rc.local or
I added the modprobe -r psmouse, modprobe psmouse to that script, now I don't have to do it manually on every boot.
BTW, ZV6015US is the exact same model I have.
Eraser
You got it.
Another question - are you comparing with the 64bit version of XP? You're not are you?
Nope, just the crappy 32 bit version of XP home that came preinstalled with the laptop (and that I never intended to use).
Have you tried 32bit Linux on it? I would put money on it working a lot better.
I'm thinking about it and might give it a shot. It will probably help with Eclipse crashing, I somehow doubt the video card and touchpad will work to its full potential.
I mean for God's sake, what advantage are you expecting from 64bit support on a laptop?
Blazing fast compilation times? Who knows, I dropped my old laptop and that was the end of it (I was happily running Ubuntu 32 bit on it) and needed to get a new one, I got a good deal on this one.
Planning on installing more than 4GB of RAM are you?
Maybe someday I will.
Try comparing like for like.
I don't have access to a 64 bit version of windows, don't know how much one would set me back, I hope the fact that I'm using windows now is temporary, while linux distros get better support for the hardware on the laptop.
And seek help for your masochist tendencies.
I'm working on it.
I just got an HP ZV6000 series laptop, featuring an AMD 64 processor. I got it with all the intention of installing Ubuntu for AMD 64 on it.
To say that the laptop is not linux friendly is an understatement. There are no drivers for the video card, you can get X.org sort of working with the vesa driver. The touchpad is partially supported, scroll bar doesn't work and you need to resort to tricks to make it work (remove and readd the psmouse module).
I installed the latest Java development kit for Linux AMD 64 on it, followed by Eclipse. Eclipse keeps crashing every few minutes.
Although my intention was to run Ubuntu on this laptop, I find myself booting to Windows XP home all the time just to get some work done.
You can find pretty good advice at the OpenOffice.org forum. Especially on this and this threads.
Doesn't really matter, no one would be doing it if
it wasn't an effective strategy. The fact that
it is an effective strategy is reason enough to celebrate.
According to this,
it is coming out May 19th, 2005.
I'm not sure what is popular in Finland, but
here in the USA, most J2EE projects involve Servlets, JSPs and EJBs (by far the most popular type of EJB are stateless session beans, most places stay away from Entity Beans). Many shops use Struts as well.
Download JBoss or JOnAS (open source J2EE App Servers) and get some experience on the above technologies.
One tool that will make your life a lot easier is XDoclet, but I would recommend that you do things "the hard way" a couple of times before you start using it.
I'm not sure what is popular in Finland, but
here in the USA, most J2EE projects involve Servlets, JSPs and EJBs (by far the most popular type of EJB are stateless session beans, most places stay away from Entity Beans). Many shops use Struts as well.
Download JBoss or JOnAS (open source J2EE App Servers) and get some experience on the above technologies.
One tool that will make your life a lot easier is XDoclet, but I would recommend that you do things "the hard way" a couple of times before you start using it.
I downloaded RC 5 last night, and ran the
SwingSetDemo. I noticed the GTK look and feel looks better than with JDK 1.4, it (more or less) uses the GTK theme you are using. I did notice a couple of bugs, sliders didn't display correctly, and the InternalFrames don't show up (the console displays a NullPointerException).
I like the Swing API, but I don't like the emulated Look and Feel. I like the native look and feel of SWT, but I don't like the API. The best solution for someone like me is to use SwingWT.
It is a wrapper around SWT, using the Swing API, porting existing Swing code to SwingWT is trivial,
just replace java.awt.* with swingwt.* and javax.swing.* with swingwtx.swing.* and you are done.
Site is slashdotted. Here is the obligatory Google cache link. Heffel
I did contract work from 1999 until I took a permanent job earlier this year.
I got a lot of leads via Monster and other job boards.
Job boards did fine for me.