If you are also frustrated by the fact that by default, Parallels will only write the RAM image to disk at 20MB/s even on a fast internal drive, then fear not.

Go to Virtual Machine > Configure > Hardware > Boot Order and add this to the Bootflags:

vm.mem_flush_limit=0
vm.mem_anonymous=1

Recently I had to make my JBoss Seam web application support both English and Georgian. Naturally their character set is not to be found in ASCII, so I had to rely on JBoss Seam and Java's support for UTF-8.

Just performing the normal steps did not work for me though. I needed to convert my messages resource bundle to ASCII - using either the mentioned native2ascii tool which is part of the JDK, or in my case, Changing this in IntelliJ Idea:

I developed a very well oiled JBoss Seam application, which has been working great. However my client today told me they could not save anything. Curious, I investigated.

It seems like none of my conversation states are being remembered. Needless to say, in a Seam application this wreaks havoc.

By applying simple deductive reasoning, I tracked the problem down to this recent addition:

As I promised a while ago, here are some photos of our first and second snow falls this season.

I knew this would be a great subject for a photo - the intense orange of the leaves contrasted with the cool blue of the building behind it. Unfortunately I could not get my composition as well as I wanted to, due to distracting surroundings. However this photo still shows how incredible a beam of light can be on the right subject.

Another example: