It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Things are quite busy, with work 4 days a week (9-5) and classes 6-9:30 at night 4 days a week (though classes are Mon-Thurs and work is Tues-Fri).

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Well, I got the SPOTs working on my system. It was a bit of a pain, but it worked.

1. Uninstall ALL of java, jdk, netbeans, and remove user’s SunSPOT directory.
2. Totally remove /usr/java /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/java-1.4.0 /usr/lib/java-1.4.1 /usr/lib/java-1 …

So I’ve been playing around withSunSPOTs lately. Or trying to. My only x86 (32-bit) machines are an old desktop running OpenSuSE 10.1 and my eeePC. It looks like I just killed my new install on the 8GB SDHC card, so I gave the desktop a try …

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Well, finals season is upon me. That’s probably why I haven’t been posting much lately (I haven’t even been checking Google Reader - I’ll have to delete a few thousand entries when I get back into the swing of things). I’ve been pretty busy, between studying …

So, I’ve started a new OpenSuSE install on my eeePC. The 4GB SDHC card that I originally used was getting a bit cramped - I couldn’t even fit the kernel source! So, I bought a new 8GB SDHC card and started from scratch. I know that OpenSuSE 11 is …