Even a derailed train has a lot of momentum...

Ten XML Predictions for 2007 from ERH. I agree with some of them, disagree with others. The title of this post comes from one of the ten that I agree with...

DIY dentistry...

...masquerading as music

The Next Big Programming Language

Steve Yegge identifies the attributes that he believes the Next Big Progrmaming Language will have without naming any names.

In my opinion, the next big programming language will not be a programming language

Just spin up lots of threads and mutex access to stuff when you need to!

this looks great.

However, the prevailing wisdom for how you might program such a thing fills me with terror.

Ubuntu VMWare The Kernel Upgrade Dance

I use VMware under Ubuntu to run Windows XP and I'm very happy with it. However, from time to time (like last week) an Ubuntu upgrade gave me a new kernel version (2.6.15-28-386). When this happens, the VMware installation goes 'castors up'.

To get VMWare working again it needs to be re-configured by re-running the usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script.

Before doing that, you need to grab updated headers with something like this:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Accepting the defaults for everything works fine except for the location of the Linux headers. You will want to feed it something like this as the location of the headers:

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-28-386/include

I keep forgetting this which is one of the reasons I'm blogging it here.

If you are looking for a cheap way to run Windows under Ubuntu, the free version of VMWare server is well worth a look. Just remember the upgrade dance when your kernel version changes.