Day 3 – Going around

Diary

Internal clock kicked me up around 6h, and so day started. We had nice breakfast and now I’m typing this catch up summary of first few days. Before the breakfast, Linda’s father showed us some old home movies, filmed almost 30 years ago, showing Linda as small girl. He had transferred recently some old 8mm…

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Day 2 – The awakening

Diary

My internal clock seemed to adjust into local day rhythm rather quickly, since it was kicking me up in the morning around sunrise time. However, I was still feeling somewhat tired due to lack of sleeping, but I guess so excitement is too big for idling in the bed. We had long breakfast, with plenty…

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Day 1 – The Trip

Diary

The great trip, became reality early in the cold morning. First night of the year when temperature dropped below 0 degrees, and roads where icy. Day before the trip first snow was falling down in the north Finland. So it was perfect timing to start trip. Night before the trip was almost sleepless, since as…

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Eclipse 3.3 is crappy slow

java, WTF

After all it turns out that crap factor has overcome over the usability factor. Basically Eclipse 3.3 contains some improvements to speed things up. However, in reality it’s just slower then 3.2.x. Reason for this strangeness is the fact that Eclipse 3.2, made big speed improvement by starting to use jar packaged plugins. This reduced…

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RMI over zipped stream

java

If large amounts of compressable data is transferred over RMI, then valid question to ask is if compression would make any benefit there. However, before going into compression of the outputstream, first thing is to do algorithmic changes to reduce traffic. I.e. no compresion can match algorithm which avoids reduntant traffic completely. Also compression adds…

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