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Google Suggest

Posted on: Thursday, December 16th, 2004 in: General

Google Suggest is much more like an autocompletion. It will suggest your search terms as you type.

The Truth About Java Libraries

Posted on: Thursday, December 16th, 2004 in: Java

In one the speeches of Mike Cannon Brooks, he tried to summarize his experience with:

it is not a problem if you use a lot of libraries; it is a problem if you don’t manage your dependencies
don’t use libraries superficially, but study them in deep and explore all their functionalities
find and take advantage of their extension [...]

Do Women Use Debian?

Posted on: Friday, December 10th, 2004 in: Linux

Besides Gentoo, Debian is my next favourite linux distrubution, and among Debian flavors, Ubuntu Linux again is my favourite choice.
Always listening about their news, the articles about apt-get primer and Debian Women from NewsForge comes across me.
If you ever wonder how Debian makes installation wonderful and whether Women use Debian, please read on :)

Fascism

Posted on: Wednesday, December 8th, 2004 in: General

During these days, while working with a Japanese software company, the word “fascism” sometimes comes up on my mind unintentionally. I thought of it as some kind of nazism, yet they are different. I eventually ends up with the web site that makes me more clearer about the differenes between them. To quote the web [...]

XScreenSave Lock Window

Posted on: Wednesday, December 8th, 2004 in: Linux

I use xscreensaver not to prevent the pixels from my monitor from burning, but for eye-candy. The only thing that looks ugly is its password window presented during unlocking. But it’s not anymore, after I’ve applied the patch by Alan Swanson. Please refer to his site for instructions on how to patch. To quote him:

So [...]