Archive for February, 2008

Is one 30 inch screen better than two smaller monitors?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in hardware, musings | 1 Comment »

In a word - no. I have recently aquired a 30 inch HP LP-3065 monitor. Before you ask 'aquired' means bought, rather than offloaded from the back of a van in ... Read more..

Vista – one giant leap for man, one small step for mankind

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in rants and opinions, windows | No Comments »

Time to join the vista rant-wagon. I have now had the joy of installing vista on two of my machines. Actually the first install wasn't all that bad. It was ... Read more..

jmap and jstack – getting a heap dump and stack trace from a running JVM

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in java, unix | No Comments »

The project I'm working on currently has many server side java components running on linux. One of these in particular has been experiencing severe memory leaks when running in our ... Read more..