a life of coding

http://openrbl.org/ takes in an IP address or a host name and returns a list of sites that might classify you as a spammer. A lot of these sites are network based (/24, /16 for ISP's) and unimportant, but some are specific to your IP and will help to find viruses or open relays on your connection.

Word on the street is that Java programs will run significantly faster if the JVM is started in "server" mode, as opposed to the default "client" mode. The following is from www.sys-con.com (also has benchmarks):

Lea explains the two ways to run Java applications with the server VM as follows

1. When launching a Java application from the command line, use java -server [arguments...] instead of java [arguments...]. For example, use java -server -jar beanshell.jar.
2. Modify the jvm.cfg file in your Java installation. (It's a text file, so you can use Notepad or Emacs to edit it.) This is located in C:\Program Files\Java\j2reXXX\lib\i386\ on Windows, /usr/java/j2reXXX/lib/i386/ on Linux. You will see two lines:

-client KNOWN
-server KNOWN

You should change them to:

-server KNOWN
-client KNOWN

This change will cause the server VM to be run for all applications, unless they are run with the -client argument.

Look, as I have beaten the teeming masses to the elusive first post of this forum in which I am the only poster. My wushu is strong.

For months I have pasted links I thought to be interesting into a Swiki page. I left only footprints of the places I had been to. Maybe instead I should sing a little song and do a little dance in celebration of new links.

Almost many year ago, in a frozen country pretty far away, there was a web designer known as digifox. She was fraught with indie geek coolness and stricken with fleshy goth fashion, and fans lusted for new cams day and night. Since then she has closed her web cult doors, moved to New York, and started making colorful illustrations.

On the front:
design: http://www.unfolded.ch/2003/index.htm
action: http://www.24hdc.com/