It seems that the Mozilla groups is making advances in the memory management of Firefox 3. They are adding a XPCOM cycle collector, that it seems is a form of garbage collector. Hope it helps in reducing the firefox memory comsumption and slowness. Via: gemal.dk

Today I tried to add a Preference Page to an RCP application that I’m working on with no luck. After executing the Extension -> Add -> Extension Wizards -> Preference Page I end up with 3 new classes. But 2 of then have compilation errors, they refer to an unexisting PreferenceClass. After googling a bit I found this message in a mailing list describing the same exact problem: >Hello, I ’ve added preference page in my application using plugin.

Wireshark allows you to inspect SSL connection as long as you have the corresponding private key of the server side. You can read the details here. But if you are using java and tomcat you’ll probably have the certificate and private key stored in a JKS keystore so how can you extract the key in the right format for WireShark? First of all, keytool doesn’t allow you to extract the private key from a keystore.

I’ve created a ruby script to merge the content of a TikiWiki into another one. This script will read the tiki_pages, tiki_history and tiki_links tables from the MySQL backend of the source TikiWiki and import the contents into the destination TikiWiki. The script is ‘safe’, meaning that it will not overwrite any page if it already exists in the destination. The history of the page will be merged as well if the page exists at the destination.

If you’re frustated trying to charge your K750 from USB with no luck. Try to install the drivers first, it actually makes a difference. The K750 wont recharge the battery if the drivers are not installed. At least that worked for me in Windows 2000.

Today I finally decide to make a script to keep my bash_history synchronized among all the machines I use. It’s a simple script that retrieves all the .bash_history files from all my machines, merges all the files into one, sort it, removes the duplicated lines and write it back to all the machines. The only drawback is that the original ordering of the history files is lost due to the alphabetical sorting step (needed to remove the duplicated lines).

Keyboard shortcuts. Navigate though google search results (similar to Google Ctrl-Arrow Greasemonkey script). Timeline and map views Left-hand search navigation and Right-hand contextual search navigation Google Experimental Search via: Lifehacker

I’m starting to use Twitter right now and found this list of firefox plugins for twitter 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter

Interesting medical search engine. MEDgle - search your symptoms for everyone