Archives for: July 2009
Free USA Visa Waiver Programme
July 20th, 2009From 12 January 2009 it will be compulsory for non-US citizens travelling (to the United States of America) under the Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) to apply via the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA) no later than 72 hours prior to departure… more »
Cross language communication with BabelWithMe
July 15th, 2009Came across a pretty neat website called BabelWithMe. The basic idea behind this web site is that it allows people of different native languages to talk to each other. Each person enters the chat session and selects their native language. All members wri… more »
VNC Slowness
July 7th, 2009Using VNC out of the box can be painfully slow. On one of my dual core Xeons it was taking 50% of the CPU!
Hunted around a bit and eventually found Peter's article giving a solution.
The problem is caused by video hardware acceleration enabled grap… more »
Installing Spring Tool Suite (STS) under Eclipse 3.5 Galileo
July 1st, 2009Firstly you need to install Eclipse 3.5 Galileo, then once that's up and running you can use the Spring update site to install the Spring Tool Suite (STS). Follow these simple step-by-step instructions. I'm assuming that you are the only Java developer u… more »