So far so good on my experimental switch to Ubuntu Linux from Windows XP. I’m running 64-bit linux because my laptop’s Intel CPU supports it. However, many but not all programs available for linux are available in 64-bit versions. Last few days I’ve needed to install a few programs that don’t have 64-bit versions available, namely, [...]

My two-year-old HP laptop is getting slower and slower. Time for an XP re-install, but that’s a big ordeal. I opted to give Linux another try (maybe the third time will be the charm). I installed and configured Eclipse, but it was running super-slow. A quick Google search revealed a simple trick: The eclipse launcher resides at /bin/eclipse yet [...]

I just wanted to quickly mention something about how MySQL handles out-of-disk-space situations when importing an SQL file. Here's my situation: I have an 80GB hard disk, 7GB free space, and am loading a 2GB SQL database dump . No problem, right? Well not always. I started it importing and went to bed. In the morning it hadn't finished and I was getting out-of-space notifications on my taskbar.