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Medicalhealthinsurancetoday.com review
Today I’m reviewing a site which has the goal of comparing different private health insurance companies and giving you the cheapest one. Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the USA insurance rules (because I’m on a different continent :-)), so I can only comment on generic impressions related to this site: The domain was registered in…
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Setting the maximum number of opened files under Ubuntu (for JProfiler)
As I found out “on my own skin”, setting fs.file-max in /etc/sysctl.conf is a BAD idea. It can render your system useless in one step. Please don’t do it! If you did it, use the recovery mode to roll back the change. Also, currently I would only recommend doubling the limit (ie going from 1024…
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DiskMap – an disk backed Map in Java
I have the following problem: a Java application was running out of memory. It was not feasible to mandate 64 bit JVM for this application and the ~1.4G limit wasn’t enough. My solution was to implement a Map which – when an element is added – also saves the value to disk and only holds…
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Why running sushi is the best fast-food?
I just realized that running sushi is the best fast-food ever. (Yes, I have strong opinions weakly held): You get you food in small chunks, so you can stop at any time and still don’t feel like you’ve wasted food You have a great variety of food and you can look at it before taking…
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Microbenchmarking and you
Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. Microbenchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance characteristics (like CPU, memory or I/O) of a small piece of code to determine which would be better suited for a particular scenario. If I could offer but one advice on this, it would be this: don’t. It is too easy…
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Doing some estimations
This is again one of those topics which I like to rant about, so I give you the short version: when you see a number, question it! Most of the numbers thrown at us in different media can be disproven quite easily and it is our responsibility as people not to just repeat whatever we’ve…
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Audio quality
This is just one of those topics which comes up from time to time in my life (probably because I consume a lot of media). I was recently watching the Jim Zemlin interviewed by Jeremy Allison (Jim Zemlin is the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation) on the Google Open Source YouTube channel and was…
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Sorry for the malware warning!
If you have tried to visit my blog recently, you might have to a warning like this from your webbrowser: Warning: Something’s Not Right Here! hype-free.blogspot.com contains content from randaclay.com , a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site. … The source of the warning is…
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mytrendyphone.co.uk review
My assignment – which I choose to accept 🙂 – was to review a mobile accessories site, namely mytrendyphone.co.uk. All the signs for this site check out: It was registered a couple of years ago and didn’t move around much It has several real seals (real meaning that they are linked to the originating site,…
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Setting up IMAP with Yahoo! Mail
I’m a long time Yahoo Mail user. Just to illustrate how long I’ve been with them: when I joined the space available was a couple of MBs! I staid with them because I was mostly satisfied (never really caught the GMail bug), however recently I started looking for options to consolidate the different email accounts…