FreeBSD/i386 5.3-BETA1... hopefully 5.3 stable will come out soon... a lot has been done on the acpi front (hopefully this fixes the X issues i encountered)... acpi_asus has been added to the kernel...

am currently happy with gentoo for the degatto... but i still miss freebsd's way of configuring the kernel via a single text file and how trivial it is to test new kernels as opposed to linux make menuconfig or its make config... also freebsd's new ULE scheduler will certainly be able to provide a more repsonsive desktop/server environment... if this is indeed what will be tagged as teh stable branch, i'll set aside time to test this out...

XStream, looks slicker than xom... i wonder how this compares to betwixt... i've been looking for a POJO<->XML converter for sometime now...

woke up early, in the mood to do work... had a great weekend with the family as well as completely happy with the outcome of last saturdays meeting...

meanwhile...

dude, i cant afford your fee for now (even if i do eventually paypal wont let me)... but i direly need your viPlugin. please reconsider releasing an eclipse 3 compatible version for free... all i want is basic navigation and cut-copy-paste-delete functionality... throw in a few search and replace functions if your feeling kind ;)... *hikbi* i swear by my aching hands that i'll put a thank you note on all the files i create using your plugin...

Application Performance Management Review... got to read this later..

2Checkout.com - credit card processing / merchant account alternative... hopefully this fits into one of my client's requirements...

a week of downtime due to paternity leave and am left with a mountain of work to do...

on the bright side, the spring migration was going along well... i longer have to wait everytime i deploy and shout syet! and gedemet! while i wait for the container to do its cmp/cmr work... now only the xsl stlysheets gets compiled every time i deploy...

this morning i managed to play decently weezer's undone sweater song intro... but my excitement was short lived when the e string broke... sigh... super tired...

whilst waiting for my wife outside the labor room (it took her almost 15hrs before she was taken to the delivery room)... i was quite surprised that most of the doctors was toting a pda (mostly palm, i only spotted one using a pocket pc). obviously makes a lot of sense since this guys often roam around several clinics and hospitals. i hadn't had the chance to ask what medical apps for the pda do these doctors use... i wonder if that many publishers of medical books make their product available on sites like ereader or in general has a soft copy option available.... that could be an interesting research... on my end i usually use plucker to turn online articles suitable for offline pda viewing, avantgo for news and rss feeds and adobe pdf viewer for most of those downloadable docs, manuals etc...

am interested as well what mobile apps can be made for these doctors considering that java is also available for palm's and pocket pc's... will do a little research on this when i have time and play with the palm jvm i downloaded a few weeks ago...

luckily, i was able to bring the tj37 with me and was able to go halfway thru the "hacker crackdown" courtesy of manybooks.net... learned a lot about the history of US secret service, the legion of doom and operation "sundevil"... it also tells a lot about the history of telcos and a ton of other facts related to cyberspace that i had not known.... next book on the list is "free culture" to spice up those boring mrt commute time...

aside from reading, i was very very happy to use the pda to capture those "kodak moments"... el cheapo 3mp cant take decent pictures with low light conditions and using the flash would take a minute befor one can shoot his next picture... whereas the tj37 decent pictures even with only flourescent as the light source, and is fast enough that you can take several pictures with a whim without any noticeable lags in between...

oh boy! that boy!! IS MY BOY!!!

definitely blogworthy, born august 12, 2004, 11:29pm at 6.8lbs, Gabriel Janro rest assured that daddy will always care, will change your underwear, will take you to the fair, and i'll always try to be there... :)

good news: postgresql v8 beta is on its way...

xorg release plan includes a working sis dri driver. am crossing my fingers that this include the m650 series so i can finally play RTCW at decent framerates rather than the unusable opengl in software mode...

bluetooth and gprs article... if only gprs is affordable here in the philippines.... early this year i was torn between choosing a bluetooth only and a wifi only pda, i couldnt afford a device which has both, i opted for the latter as the office has wifi AP and at home i use wifi usb in ad-hoc mode to have a wireless lan (peer to peer is more appropriate) between the desktop, pda and the mobile desktop (degatto)... i was very tempted to buy teh tungsten t2 which has bluetooth but the expensive gprs rates is too unpractical for me... i can still connect my pda to a gprs phone via infra if the needs arises. of course sans the geekness and convenience of a similar bluetooth pda-phone pair...

The CharacterData interface makes thing clearer... java strings are composed of utf-16 chars....

stupid me, its not just ñÑ that causing the feature, este, bug... oh well...

"0x11 is not allowed in XML content"

String evolution.... back then in good ol' C/C++ a string is a string... an array of chars... memory mapped... now developing a program that deals with strings are no longer trivial... now there are different encodings to deal with... which reminds me of tacacs hell that i had to go thru with my first real unix program, to parse tacacs text files to produce subscriber usage reports for billing purposes... makes me want to do the perl-lee shell dance... now back to this bug... to my dear users please avoid sending text messages with ñÑ for the moment... hmmnn... this means am not doing java's encode and decode functions the right way... GOOGLEEEEEEEE!!!

am a few java classes away from being EJB free... finally, J2EE without those excess fats....

philmusic no more... its now just a photo gallery of the pinoy music scene... sayang, i like their magazine type articles back then pa naman... everybody moves on i guess....

totally loving junit testing, and how damn trivial it is to do this with eclipse ide... a REALLY nice break away from the monotony of EJB's CMP/CMR... of course this was made possible with spring framework's lightness... its IoC feature totally rocks!

Migs Paraz - What is Not ? myGlobe G-Blogs Mobile Blogging... from the venerable migz... i guess pinoy's are getting into the blogging trend... and being the mobile indie's that we are, the cell phone is a convenient means of posting one's thoughts on the web...

my office desk... the epitome of spartan simplicity... hehehehe.... i know its not that clean but some say that "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind"...

KiwiCamara.com the nephew of our CEO.... comp sci and mathematics as his undergrad and will be finishing law at harvard this sept 2004... and his a filipino... we should clone him as our nation is in dire need of filipinos like this...

Second Life: Your World. Your Imagination.... this thing is wickedly cool!

ok, continue with spring hibernate plumbing... i deferred using hibernate collection mapping in favor of simpler direct methods for getting collections/list associated with a class...