Last week I decided I want faster internet so I upgraded my Telkom line to 512kbps (from 384kps) after a quick phone call and waiting a couple of days for the activation. In general my surfing experience didn't improve much but the odd download does come down much quicker, and concurrent downloads doesn't interfere that much with each other any more. I know people in other countries probably laugh at these oxwagon speeds in 2011, but c'mon this is Africa.
I finally took the plunge last night and went over to uncapped internet. Afrihost makes for a great impulse buy since they charge pro-rata for the first month and have instant activation for existing customers. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back. I'm already torrenting and and downloading big stuff like the latest ubuntu and XP service packs (for family m'kay you can't choose them..) that I usually would avoind or get through other means.
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
maven 3 - its time
After getting some weird issues with my builds I tried out maven 3 again to see if it magically fixed things. It didn't fix that issue, but I'm quite impressed with maven 3 so far:
4 minutes 15 seconds
3 minutes 18 seconds
3 minutes 22 seconds
== Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 19:31:09+0200) (serial) ==
3:34.911s
3:14.637s
=== apache-maven-3.0.3/bin/mvn -T6 clean install (using 6 threads) ===
2:23.427s
2:23.224s
=== apache-maven-3.0.3/bin/mvn -T6 clean install (using 8 threads) ===
2:22.137s
2:19.600s
so I save about a minute (or 28%) when runing thing in parallel
I had to upgrade some maven plugins to allow things to be treadsafe with the help of this page:
https://cwiki.apache.org/MAVEN/parallel-builds-in-maven-3.html
- It can build subprojects in parallel which gives me quite a performance boost.
- The other big thing for me is that "lots of bugs are fixed now", which is a bit hard to measure right away but will probably ensure a more enjoyable experience.
- It was done on my Intel i7 Q749 @ 1.73GHz with SSD
- The second run of each hopefully avoids delays while "checking for updates"
- Java version: 1.6.0_24
- OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.35-27-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"
- It includes a GWT widget compile
- Ran mvn clean install in the maven reactor with 17 subprojects
4 minutes 15 seconds
3 minutes 18 seconds
3 minutes 22 seconds
== Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 19:31:09+0200) (serial) ==
3:34.911s
3:14.637s
=== apache-maven-3.0.3/bin/mvn -T6 clean install (using 6 threads) ===
2:23.427s
2:23.224s
=== apache-maven-3.0.3/bin/mvn -T6 clean install (using 8 threads) ===
2:22.137s
2:19.600s
so I save about a minute (or 28%) when runing thing in parallel
I had to upgrade some maven plugins to allow things to be treadsafe with the help of this page:
https://cwiki.apache.org/MAVEN/parallel-builds-in-maven-3.html
Monday, 28 February 2011
Toshiba Qosmio X500-12V
I got my new lappy a couple of months ago, so I better post already or hold my peace.
I'm quite impressed, although I haven't tried to get everything working yet still need to play with multitouch and the fingerprint reader . Suspend to disk didn't work and I haven't tried to suspend to ram yet, but it is booting so fast that I don't really need that.
I got a solid state and conventional harddrive, where the solid state disk performs about twice as good as the conventional one (was hoping for better, but it is ok).
SSD: 152.64 MB/sec
HDD: 89.22 MB/sec
* I Managed to migrate my previous installation (Ubuntu maverick) from my other laptop, moving around directories into special partitions (having most of the main os on the SSD but pointing /var/cache /var/log /var/tmp to the HDD)
* I had to fight a bit with grub and X to get it to work on the new hardware, but it was worth it in the end.
* I now get much better wireless reception:). (previously my connection died all the time:(
* The nvidia drivers works nicely which makes desktop effects work well - I can invert my desktop colours at last!
* Vista in a virtualbox works seamlessly for me now.
* bzr tests runs in 5 minutes now in stead of 18.
* gwt extensions compile in a minute now and does not lock up my laptop; previously it ran for over 5 minutes during which I could barely read e-mail because the system was so busy.
* Eclipse starts and stops a LOT quicker yay!
* Sound is really good (with the 3 watt harman/kardon 1by3's).
* Got the card reader working with some tweaking:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10302581
I'm quite impressed, although I haven't tried to get everything working yet still need to play with multitouch and the fingerprint reader . Suspend to disk didn't work and I haven't tried to suspend to ram yet, but it is booting so fast that I don't really need that.
I got a solid state and conventional harddrive, where the solid state disk performs about twice as good as the conventional one (was hoping for better, but it is ok).
SSD: 152.64 MB/sec
HDD: 89.22 MB/sec
* I Managed to migrate my previous installation (Ubuntu maverick) from my other laptop, moving around directories into special partitions (having most of the main os on the SSD but pointing /var/cache /var/log /var/tmp to the HDD)
* I had to fight a bit with grub and X to get it to work on the new hardware, but it was worth it in the end.
* I now get much better wireless reception:). (previously my connection died all the time:(
* The nvidia drivers works nicely which makes desktop effects work well - I can invert my desktop colours at last!
* Vista in a virtualbox works seamlessly for me now.
* bzr tests runs in 5 minutes now in stead of 18.
* gwt extensions compile in a minute now and does not lock up my laptop; previously it ran for over 5 minutes during which I could barely read e-mail because the system was so busy.
* Eclipse starts and stops a LOT quicker yay!
* Sound is really good (with the 3 watt harman/kardon 1by3's).
* Got the card reader working with some tweaking:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10302581
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