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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: There is another blogging contest under way here at Sun, with the chance to earn one of ten $500 American Express Gift Checks in the Sun Studio Blogging Contest!  There will be 10 grand prize winners, with the top 50 blog winners each receiving a 2 GB Sun Studio memory stick.  [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: As I mentioned in a previous article, Apache exception hooks are now supported in Web Stack’s delivery of Apache 2.2, via a change to Apache’s configure options. This enables additional diagnostic capabilities. Consider the case of a child process crash: In [...]

Andy Schwartz, one of the JSF EG members, has written an excellent blog [1] on what’s new in JSF 2.0.Definitely worth a read!
[1] http://andyschwartz.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/whats-new-in-jsf-2/

Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/rlubke/entry/jsf_2_0_what_s

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The best-versioned artifact in the Java world today is the ClassFile structure. Two numbers that evolve with the Java SE platform (as documented in the draft Java VM Specification, Third Edition) are found in every .class file, governing its content. But what determines the version of a particular .class [...]

Since build 66 was a milestone release the bundles are now available at java.sun.com. 
I would also like to note that my previous blog entry mentioned that all  planned features for Milestone 4 got in — turns out that the XML stack, which includes jaxp, jaxb and jax-ws APIs, did not get in.  The work [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: xanthos writes “Sir Richard Branson was at the annual Experimental Aircraft Assoc Fly-in to show off EVE (previously known as White Knight Two), the launch vehicle for Virgin Galactic’s commercial space operation. Test flights for the vehicle are slated for next year with the first paying passenger’s going up [...]

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Install Drizzle On Debian Lenny
Drizzle is a Free Software/Open Source database management system (DBMS) that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS. Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer at the Livermore, Calif., lab, on which they hope to run 10 million [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Using cheap materials that anyone can order by mail, scientists built several color-changing electronic displays on sheets of ordinary paper. His brainchild relies upon thermochromic ink, the same stuff that can be found in mood rings and disposable thermometers. When its temperature changes, so does its color. “At [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Stupified writes “High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (complaint, PDF), because doing so destroyed the annotations he’d created to the text for class. The complaint states: ‘The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file [...]

Keldrin_1 writes “Researchers Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco, from Core Security Technologies, have discovered a vulnerability in the ‘Computrace LoJack for Laptops’ software. This is a BIOS-level application that calls home for instructions in case the laptop is ever lost or stolen. However, what the application considers ‘home’ is subject to change. This allows the [...]