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Java 64 bit performance problem

January 24th, 2009 No comments

This is going to be a weird blog post so I am warning you. The reason why I am saying this is because I will try to go in to details about my weird performance problem but I am not able to say everything because ….. The short line of the story is like this, I got an Java application who is using an 3th party jar and this jar has weird performance issues when running 32bit and 64 bit JVM.
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nvidia-settings and Ubuntu (dual screen,digital projector)

January 22nd, 2009 No comments

Couple of days ago i needed to connect digital projector and an second screen to my laptop. I found out that when you have an nvidia graphics card you can use a nice graphical utility to do this instead of manual approach with xorg.

Just install:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

and then start with:

nvidia-settings.

With this tool you are able to change settings, detect external displays and attach them very easily. This settings tool helped me so I thought I would just spread the word.

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