Flat Screen Monitor

Nice review about Acer1916w

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/aceral1916w/

Dell 2005FPW review: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/monitors/0,39023940,39187093,00.htm

Finally got the Acer Al1916w Monitor. I think it is really worth 180£

Books

I got the following books during my holiday

Spring in Action
Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace
Microsoft Windows Internals: Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
UML 2.0 in a Nutshell
Developing Series 60 Applications: A Guide for Symbian OS C++ Developers
C++ Pocket Reference

I also got a lot of time to read through 'Java native Interfaces with SWT/JFace', 'Windows Internals' and 'Spring in Action'.

Utilities

Some usefull PC utilities extracted from various PC Quest Articles

CVS integration with Win Explorer.http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
Knowledge Management with Confluence
Preview Search Results Instantly: http://www.browster.com/
Port monitornig in Win XP: Port Reporter
Xpde : www.xpde.com
Determine you ip address : http://www.whatismyip.com/

Adding Google Video to your blog page

I have to try this out later on.
I also have to upload more videos

I am thinking of upgrading to a Flickr Pro Account

I am thinking of upgrading to flickr pro account it is about 47$ per year.

Candy Mareen

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Originally uploaded by ♫ maria.

Really nice colors

Need for Speed - Most Wanted

I downloaded this game demo on Sat night and I have been playing it since then.
It is really great, It is really good that they have got back day time racing; not that I didnt like the underground scene that was really good; but the entire concept of open world driving along with day time driving with cop chace is really great.
The music is excellent too.
I am waiting for Prince of Persia demo

How to change the location of IDEA caches (system) and configuration directories

I am quite sure I blogged about this a while back and I wasnt able to locate it using google blog search. Well here it is again.

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Finally got this book today. I cant wait to read it.

Be There Broadband

Quite a good broadband ISP for London. it gives 24 megs for24£per month. But it requires ADSL2,I think that requires a different type of modem I am not sure if I can use my existing modem/router for the same.

Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market and Just About Everything Else

I got this book 2 weeks back. It seems like a really interesting book.

UK House Prices for free FREE

UK House Prices for free FREE

Low space on C:

The amount of space on C: was really low, so I decided that I would install windows on a diff partition (this time give it 10Gb) I started off with that and then got board since it takes a really long time, moreover I didnt have the installer for some of the software, like Far Cry and Stary Night. So I decide that I would go back to my previous install and try and move Docuements and Settings to a different partiftion after searching for a some time I found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/ I tried to move 'Documents and Settings' but I wasnt successfully so I finally mamanged to move my profile to a different drive.
I now have 500mb on C:, well much better than 97mb.

Spent the entire day on this...a realy waste.

I still have to move to the new windows since I am quite sure I am going to hit the lower limit soon.

Quake 4

Been playing Quake 4 for a couple of days and I have to say it is really good. It built on the same engine as Doom but I seemed to like this game much more than Doom, I guess I didnt quite like the Doom story line about ghost on Mars didnt make much sense. Well there isnt much sense even in Quake 4 but then too I quite like the single player game strategy.

Joanna Newsom (This Side of the Blue)

A really nice song by Joanna Newsom called This side of the Blue from the album The Milk eyed Mender I heard this song the first time on TV in some Ad, I think it was a Vodophone 'NOW' ad though I am not that sure. She has got a really nice voice and the tune is really great.

Social Networking at JavaOne

Nokia Sensor post by Michael Yuan

Spring MVC vs Struts

Gerard Davison's Weblog: First looks, Spring MVC vs Struts

In most places, the Spring framework doesn't reinvent working technologies. In the area of presentation logic, though, Spring introduces a simple model-view-controller framework called MVC Web that has many competing architectures, like Struts and Java Server Faces (JSF). Take solace, though. You don't have to use MVC Web to use Spring. But if you decide to do so, you will find a few advantages:

-MVC Web is based on interfaces rather than inheritance. As we discussed in Chapter 3, interfaces often give better flexibility and looser coupling than inheritance-based designs.

-MVC Web does not dictate your choice of view. Other frameworks tend to provide better support for favored view technologies, such as Velocity (proprietary) and Struts (JSP). For example, Struts exposes the model via request attributes. As a result, you need to build a bridge servlet to use a technology such as Velocity that doesn't understand the Servlet API. Spring exposes the model through a generic map, so it can work with any view technology.

-MVC Web provides consistent configuration across all aspects of a Spring application. It uses the same inversion-of-control paradigm that the other frameworks use.

-MVC Web makes testing easier. Since you don't have to extend another class (like Action or ActionForm in Struts), you can easily mock the request and response.


Karl Baum opened this thread.

Tom Lehrer Song

Used to listen to this guy quite often during the first few years of Engg, from 4pm till 5pm.

DHTML SQL Designer

Really cool DHTML Designer sent to me by Joshua Spoerri. Quite cool

Brillo - Shine

Brillo - Shine
Originally uploaded by * No. Pip, no!!! *.

Another Great one