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Download the ATI Radeon drivers ‘fglrx’ from the Synaptic Package Manager.
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Add to ‘Section “Module”‘: Load “GLCore”
In ‘Section “Device”‘ change “ati” to “fglrx”
After restaring, check output in glxinfo – direct rendering should be ‘yes’ and ‘renderer string’ should show ‘MOBILITY/RADEON 9000 DDR Generic’
Initially I had errors running glxinfo – this post here explains the problem and provides a fixed (older?) .so file to replace one in the lates fglrx dirver.
InfoQ.com have a summary of an article on Hacknot.info, describing the 19 most common mistakes a technical leader can make.
This is a solid list of pitfalls that every technical manager should bear in mind…
IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated they can overclock a Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) based CPU to 500GHz Рthe catch? They had to supercool it down to within a couple of degrees from absolute zero (-268.5°C).
For certain types of data (frequently accessed, but infrequently changed), caching is an easy approach to improving performance by minimizing database roundtrips.
BEA’s dev2dev site have an interesing article on how to use declarative caching. With this approach using Spring, methods in which you want to take advantage of caching can be declared and wired up to the Caching provider in the Spring Application Context file, instead of having to hard-code the access to the Cache API within your code, which would make the code harder to follow, maintain, and would tie you to a particular cache provider.