2007-11-23 links

• New Java features of 3rd Ed. fp 2
  Faster startup and less memory use for the S60 Java ME VM. Also: "The new architecture allows us to dynamically extend the virtual machine with new APIs" - eg. eSWT.
  tags: nokia s60 java j2me news blog mobile ... saved by 1 other person


• Java for S60: eSWT available for development
  New java UI toolkit in S60 3rd edition feature pack 2. "eSWT is a cross platform toolkit developed in cooperation [with] Eclipse ... eRCP. ... eSWT shares most of the API with desktop SWT."
  tags: j2me mobile nokia eSWT s60 s60v3 java toolkit ui ... saved by 3 other people


• Once upon atime [LWN.net]
  Pros and cons of disabling atime to reduce the number of accesses of the disk.
  tags: performance linux filesystem disk hd hard_drive atime ... saved by 2 other people


• Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu [LWN.net]
  Good summary of the recent hard drive power management scare ("Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive").
  tags: ubuntu hd hard_drives power power_management laptop linux ... saved by 2 other people