Dinner with Ari and Leo, 8/30/06 - a photoset on Flickr
I had Sushi with Betsy and my dad before picking up Ben from the airport. (We three were on our way to Burning Man the next day). Always a pleasure to see someone that was such a huge part of my life for so long.
When I started this job at unamed company, it was my return the Java development world after a hiatus of about seven years.
In my day, we used xemacs, xterms, and Netscape Communicator and we liked it!But seriously, when I last seriously wrote Java, there were some not-so-useful proto-IDEs out there. My short return in 2002 didn’t show that the world was much better.
But in 2006, Eclipse is king. And since I spent most of time in Eclipse, cranking out the objects, I didn’t mind too terribly to be working on Windows. But those who know me know that I prefer to use Linux and my 10-year old FVWM config (ported a few years back to fvwm2) to get “real work” done.
So after 6 months on Windows, I switched to Linux (Fedora Core 5, for the curious… I’m a total Red Hat whore). Eclipse is pretty much the same. The only problem was that the debugger seemed to run painfully slow. I’ve lived with this for like 3 months. And finally, FINALLY, I have a remedy:
Small JDWP packets with the socket transport causes slow debugging on linux 2.6.15 kernel and newer
I installed jdk-1.5.0_08 and suddenly the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the debugger is responsive again!
What was the problem? Evidently, the debugger was behaving badly, but this was masked by some behavior in the Linux kernel that was fixed in version 2.6.15:
Java remote debugging is slow due to apparent networking bug
Hallelujah!
The high-res, very clear event photo from this year. Thank you, IKONOS.
Here’s a link to the super-high-res version.
Burning Man 2006 - IKONOS , originally uploaded by Gatecrasher.
An amazing panorama of the 2006 burning of the man. I’m standing on the right side, just about underneath the giant flower.
I’m back from my fourth immolation of the effigy and back to the grind at unamed company.
I turned 30 on Aug. 30 (my golden birthday!), out in the desert. I’m not how I feel about passing that milestone.
I’m still recovering from Burning Man; you don’t really realize how much it effects you until you leave. I think that I have a high tolerance for surreality, but once that stimulus is removed you end up feeling very strange in your mundanity, not unlike the feeling of floating after someone’s been sitting on your shoulders.
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