Swing painters, filty rich clients and "Ajaxified" Swing

A collection of (slightly old) writeups and presentations from the Aerith/SwingX folks:

• Joshua Marinacci introduces painters
• Romain Guy's clients get filthy rich
• Richard Bair speaks of the marriage between XMLHTTPRequest and Swing
  

Interesting quote on performance improvements

Interesting quote from Bryan Cantrill on performance improvements:

"...More than anything, what we (or at least I) learned
from DTrace is that if you want to get big wins, you don't make it
incrementally faster to do existing work -- you eliminate work entirely by
addressing its source higher in the stack of abstraction."

Finding open locks in Postgres

Found a useful query to find open locks in postgres:

select pg_class.relname,pg_locks.* from pg_class,pg_locks where pg_class.relfilenode=pg_locks.relation;

India an economic super power? Fat chance.

This blog links to an interesting article on the economies of India and China. I especially liked the comment posted at this blog by Danese Cooper (Formerly open source community manager at Sun, now will Intel. She also gave a talk at FOSS.in this year).
She says, "Still, I'd rather live in a future where India keeps China's rapacious growth in check."

Its rather ironical that the world expects so much from India when we're going from bad to worse - caste based reservations in universities, poorly taught undergrads being churned out by the ten thousands every year by the universities, corruption, red tape, lack of access to good quality higher education, fast vanishing flora, fauna and natural resources, attempted withdrawal of the right to information act etc. Such pseudo democracy is only slightly better than communism country. Only slightly.
Just this evening, it took me 2.5 hours to negotiate 12 KMs because a huge rally was organized by the ruling Congress party in Bangalore. Villagers were brought in 9000 buses to "participate" in the show of "strength" by that political party. Apart from the physical stress I went through, my car also suffered a few scratches thanks to the bumper to bumper traffic. TV channels reported a 40 KM long traffic jam on the highway connecting Bangalore and Tumkur(60 KM away) due to this event. Even the cops were mute spectators (as usual) to this event.
Some democracy we have. Who the hell would want to live in such a country?
And we hope to give China a run for its money, huh?

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USB devices in Solaris 10

Good post on managing USB devices in S10 . Not all of it may work with the FCS release though. vold is severely broken in that release. I'd recommend disabling it ("svcadm disable volfs") and manually mounting your USB stick instead. With update 2 however, vold and hot plugging of USB devices work like a charm.

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