words on sand

from shri at drone-ah.com

03 Nov 2011

Gnome Desktop Inaccessible After Screensaver Kicks in [1103]

217 words, ~0 min read

Yesterday, I mentioned a problem that I've been having with GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.10.

Essentially what happens is that …

02 Nov 2011

Saving your workspace window configuration in Linux [1102]

626 words, ~2 min read

I am usually working on a good half a dozen things at any given time and this means that I usually have a good ten or …

02 Nov 2011

Tracking progress of an update statement

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Sometimes there is a need to execute a long running update statement. This update statement might be modifying millions …

13 Oct 2011

A Life Lived

354 words, ~1 min read

I remember a time,
Not that long ago,
To be driven by misery,
by sorrow and pain.

Walking a world covered in snow,
A …

14 Jul 2011

Boundless

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Swimming around gently,
for what seemed like an eternity,
in what was but a moment,
in her big brown eyes.

Time, with …

14 Jul 2011

Thoughts

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The thoughts that fill us daily
Are the stone, the rocks
The pavement, the roads.

These roads we pave,
Sometimes with …

14 Jul 2011

Words

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There was once a time,
when words flowed,
like a river, yearning for the sea.
simple words conveyed great meaning.

Words …

21 Jun 2011

Register / Attach Service to JMX

31 words, ~0 min read

Registering a Bean within JMX (at least in JBoss) is very straightforward. It requires an interface with attributes …

08 Jun 2011

First Love

743 words, ~2 min read

The first phone I ever got was a Motorola Startac 70. This was back in 98 or so, a flip phone and I still remember it …

11 May 2011

Lana - Acacius

1,131 words, ~4 min read

There are things I haven’t told you. I wander these streets my head in the clouds and my feet barely on the …