Archives week 43 of 2015

I've definitely had to touch Java in the intervening years, but the last big Java project I can remember working on was in 1997. And that was a VR Mutech that we ripped out and replaced with C++ and Javascript ASAP. Java code always seems somewhat like someone is pulling my leg...

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So I pulled the upgrade switch on the (Dell Inspiron) laptop on Friday. It trundled for almost the whole day doing the upgrade, then rebooted to a black-and-totally-unresponsive screen, with no way to switch to virtual consoles... I did a hard-reboot, booted to recovery console and reinstalled the fglrx (proprietary AMD) drivers, then rebooted... and ...

There's a point in every presentation where you realize "I should have asked for an hour (or 8)"... that's about 1/2 way through in my experience, it's where you've filled the work-table with a thousand items, taking each bullet point you wanted to cover and expanding it to full-lecture size, and now you start the ...