• Install Google Desktop.
• Install the Google Desktop Java plugin which forces it to index .java and .jav files.
• Install TweakGDS which allows you to modify the Google Desktop Search options. In my case I explicitly listed certain directories with all the source, and made sure to leave out things like the Websphere installation directory and so forth.
• Last step is use TweakGDS to flush out the GDS cache and manually kick off indexing of your favorite source code. Now if you enabled the GDS hotkeys, a simple quick ctrl-ctrl double click and type StupidInterface and well, you’ve found it all!

For my new computer, as cool as it seemed because ExpressGate is built on linux, the sleep functionality works very well and consumes low enough power that I’m very pleased with it. Recovering is very quick, and is really no longer than it takes for my monitor to turn on. So ExpressGate seemed ‘neat’ but not that great. But when I read the article about it now on Asus laptops… I wish I had one of those. I’m just thinking about being able to have a laptop completely off (lowest power consumption in laptop world is not just about trees, but battery life) and then quickly power up in the airport to get emails etc before boarding the plane and shutting it completely off again. The speed at which you can boot up is also ideal for this.

One current and big disappointment with ExpressGate is that it actually consumes a bit more power than running full windows! See this article for details, which explains the theory that Intel’s SpeedStep isn’t working right in ExpressGate. I also wonder if in the article they were spinning up the hard drives.

If Asus can fix the power consumption issue, it’s a definite winner. Even until then, it’s definitely something to think about when purchasing your next laptop.

What you are witnessing is a photo I snapped of a plate of brisket, sausage, cornbread, and sides at Black’s BBQ in Lockhart, TX. Open 8 days a week! ]]> http://www.burnpc.com/2008/09/03/blacks-bbq/feed/ http://www.burnpc.com/2008/08/20/prepone-aint-a-word/ http://www.burnpc.com/2008/08/20/prepone-aint-a-word/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:57 +0000 RonSenykoff http://www.burnpc.com/?p=104 Since I work in IT I have a lot of coworkers who are Indian. We had a light-hearted discussion this morning when someone used the word ‘prepone’ and I explained that this is not a word. This wasn’t the first time I had heard it used however, and came to discover that there is a whole subset of Indian English that has evolved on the sub-continent. One of the guys turned me onto this site which is pretty awesome: http://www.vsubhash.com/desienglish.asp

I think my favorite of these words so far is ‘updation’ which I have seen in emails several times… you know, insertion, deletion, updation.

So I’m having a bit of a brewing extravaganza with my new equipment. 2 weeks ago I brewed an American Pale Ale with 2 lbs of Rye substituted in for 2-row. For this I used the ubiquitous Wyeast 1056 (chico) yeast. This last weekend I had a free Sunday afternoon and realized that I could rack the APA into a keg for secondary, then throw a new batch on top of the yeast cake. So an American Amber it was! And now I just ordered some ingredients needed to brew an Irish Red this next weekend, on top of the same yeast cake. I may have to do a barleywine after that, as there will be enough yeast built up!

So I picked up a project box at the Rat Shack and some other components. Maybe I’ll make one this weekend. Fun! I’ll take pics and document it under the beer section of the site.