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This has been going on for a long time, now, and is becoming really worrying. There is a whole bunch of people, in the IT industry, whose sole goal is to be “recognized” as a “thought-leader”. When I think about a thought-leader, the first face that comes to my mind is Einstein, even if with...

Google Video Player has come to OS X, too. Downlowd it from here

Following are detailed instructions for installing Weblogic 9.1 on OS X Panther. Download AIX version of Weblogic 9.1 (AIX as that’s the generic version of WebLogic, in fact). You can download it from:http://commerce.bea.com/showproduct.jsp?family=WLS&major;=9.1&minor;=0 Run the installation with the following command: java -Dos.name=unix -jar server910_generic.jar it’s crucial to indicate os.name parameter. Otherwise, installer will complain about...

Sometimes we do not know the size of the data or information that will be displayed on a page, or worse - we know it will be too large. Examples of such cases are: large data tables or code listing. Having page strech is not the best thing to happen obviously. Using IFrames is even worse....

Very nice commercial from EDS: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187

As you know, in CSS box  model, you can indicate all 4 arguments together. e.g. margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; But then, it is not easy to remember which argument stands for which side. Which one is top or right or left? They go around the clock but then - where does it start? I...

I installed Windows XP SP2 on my brand-new MacBook yesterday. The installation was a breeze (except it took REALLY LONG, for some reason) and after installing Windows has superb performance. Quite honestly I have never had such fast Windows before (even though one of my desktop computers is Athlon X2). Very impressive. The only downsides...

Here it is: http://de.fishki.net/pics9/tyts.swf. Put your headphones on, if you are in the office and enjoy :) If somebody knows the name of the song and can comment here - it will be greatly appreciated. cheers.

Do you have a nice, new computer with large L2 cache? Probably, you payed extra to get 2MB L2 instead of a lesser alternative. Well, here is the news - Windows is not using all that extra goods of your CPU. By default Windows only uses 256KB of your second-level (L2) cache. Ouch! Here is...

Julie Inlow of the University of Maryland has recently interviewed me about FOSS, for her research. I decided to publish this interview in the hope that somebody else may find it interesting, as well. I strongly believe in the open-source. If this posting helps at least one person to consider FOSS more seriosuly, I will...

New Mac ads are out. Check them out and have fun :) http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Do you know how many microseconds are there in a nanosecond? You thought it was 10^-3^, eh? Heh, think twice and no, I have not gone nuts. At least, not yet. Read on. More seriously, what am I ranting about, here? Time precision in Java, is the topic. Today, I needed to profile a process which...

There are several GUI programs allowing different “tricks” on OS X but one of the tricks - enabling Debug menu in Safari, is too easy to require an extra mile of installing a GUI application. Debug menu in Safari delivers a wealth of additional information, essential for web developers, web designers and other enthusiasts. Using...

Roman Mittermayr wrote an awesome article about main trends of Web 2.0 and what makes a website design Web 2.0-ish. Highly recommended reading.