Archive for July, 2009

Kubuntu Jaunty: Just ‘cos I use it don’t mean it’s good

I’ve been using Kubuntu Jaunty since its release, and quite a bit before that as well (during the beta phase). Generally speaking, I can’t do without it. I use it as my primary operating system for both work and leisure, and I’ve upgraded virtually all of my staff’s laptops to use it as well. For [...]

[Wild Conjecture] Chrome OS as I imagine it

Google’s announcement only drops a few hints here and there, and the world just went crazy with speculation.
Glancing through my feeds, some comments seem to be centered around the theme “you’re just a web application peddler, what makes you think you can handle the complexity of maintaining a full-fledged OS?” (Sorry, I tried looking for [...]

What? Can’t take a bit of competition?

So now the IT media world just went wild over Google’s Chrome OS announcement. Comments are coming in from all over, some overly optimistic, some dismissive. All of these are speculative at best, and none of them carry a lot of weight as Google hasn’t even done a code drop yet, much less a release.
Some [...]

My most commonly used VIM commands

I wrote this as a response to a VI question in LowYat forums. Hope it’s useful to someone else out there.

:$ – Move to the last line (why this instead of shift-G? read below)
:10 – Move to line no 10, just substitute with any other number. So, just remember “$” means “last line” and you [...]

Can you see Glassfish as the new Apache?

That the Apache web server is a mainstay in the web hosting industry is a gross understatement. Netcraft’s June 2009 statistics show that Apache is holding strong at 46.89% share of web servers surveyed. Microsoft’s IIS web server family has been perennial runner-ups, not really threatened by any other player, not able to touch the [...]