My top 5 themes from Strengths Finder

My top 5 themes from Strengths Finder - Adaptability - Connectedness - Empathy - Harmony - Deliberative Just finished reading about them, but need to give couple of more tags to fully understand each of those well enough to start working on the action items from the customized report.

You cannot be anything you want to be

You "cannot" be anything you want to be, but you "can" be a lot more of who you already are

- Strengths Finder 2.0

Pivotal Tracker is no more free

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/pricing

New fish tank installed at the work place

Fishes are yet to arrive.

Speeding up Ubuntu linux by tweeking SWAP memory

I have a desktop with 1GB RAM and Ubuntu 10.10 OS with 4GB of SWAP memory configured and still it felt slow. I'm fine using it for general browsing and reading but not happy to use this desktop for any development

Yesterday I was trying the new Linix Mint 10 Debian Edition (LMDE) with a live CD in this desktop. When looking at the configuration in GParted, I understood that all the 4GB SWAP memory is allocated in one partition. So I though lets break this into two and see what happens.

To my surprise, when I restarted the machine using installed Ubuntu OS, I found my machine got lot faster with the same RAM same amount of SWAP.

So I realized deviding the SWAP memory into multiple parts, each part is with minimum size of the RAM the machine has makes the machine faster.

I'm yet to read upon more on this on how exactly it works, but this is a quick tip we can follow to speedup Ubuntu or any other linux distro.

 

Reading procrastination article in zen habits

http://zenhabits.net/procrastination/

I've got some useful tips that I can immediately make use of.

Google Groups Data To Be Destroyed!

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=308700

Read it; it's short. Notice the last line of the third paragraph: "In February 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content." In journalism, this is called "burying the lead," which means, "putting the most important line of the piece down in the article where a lot of people won't notice it.