Keith Kim’s Blog

Book Review

Posted by Keith under Books

Just skim through a couple of books:

[1] Advances in Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering
Du Zhang and Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
ISBN:9781591409410

-> Good to know what’s out there, but not for learning.

[2] Windows Vista Secrets: SP1 Edition
Paul Thurrott
ISBN:9780470242001

-> If you’re a novice PC user, and don’t know anything about Vista.

Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches

Posted by Keith under Architecture

Death of Sparc Solaris Workstation?

Posted by Keith under Unix/Linux

Sparc Solaris workstations were dream machines when I was in school.  It was fast, reliable, and very expensive.  When Sun introduced the models using PC components with affordable price, I was so glad and bought one soon as it was available.  I bought a Blade 100 in 2001, and I’m still using it running Solaris 9.  (10 was too heavy for that machine.)

I recently checked Sun.com for Sparc workstation/desktop page and found that they pulled out all Sparc based workstations from their web site. 

It’s sad to see that Sparc based workstation/desktops are no longer produced. :’-(

Opera 10 alpha download

Posted by Keith under Cool Apps

Heard about Opera 10 scores perfect 100/100 on Acid 3 test?  Download ALPHA version here (Windows).  For other platforms, go here.

I use IE, FF, and Opera.  (No Chrome, no Safari.)  It’s because:

• IE: some sites just requires it.
• FireFox: many good add-on, especially for development.
• Opera: Fast, and I need another browser to use with a different proxy.

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"erl -man io" doesn’t work?

Posted by Keith under Erlang, Tips, Unix/Linux

While I was playing around with erlang, I found my installation of erlang’s man page does not work:

$ erl -man io
No manual entry for io

I have compiled and installed (with configure’s prefix option) in /opt/erlang on Solaris 9, put the man page files just in /opt/erlang/man.  Clearly this doesn’t work.  So I did some tracking with:

$ truss -o /tmp/output.txt erl -man io 

(truss is like strace for Solaris; "strace" on Solaris is completely different thing.)

And found that the "/man" directory should live in /opt/erlang/lib/erlang/man.

"erl -man io" works now.  It’s in MANPATH and Windex is created — so just "man io" would work just fine, but I just wanted to fix it anyway.