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Excerpt: I have just integrated couple of changes which I believe are the first contributed externally to the Testing community as an open-source contribution. The changes add couple of new tests to the nc test suite to cover the enhancement described in PSARC/2008/680 (which is present in Nevada since build 106). This is the stuff which allows you to run nc(1) in client mode with complex portlist specifications. Previously it was possible only to use simple port ranges like 22-80, with this change one can connect to e.g. 22,24,50-80,66,1024-2048. Little example how it might be useful: $ nc -v -z grok.czech 22,25,80-88,8080 Connection to grok.czech 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! nc: connect…

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Excerpt: Congratulations to Rafael Vanoni and Chad Mynhier. Rafael did a putback to the O/N Consolidation today of two bug fixes from Chad: 6730130 and 6733214.  In addition to being useful changes to DTrace code, these changes mark the 399th and 400th integrations done via the Sponsor Program. Chad has been a contributor for almost two years, has had 16 code changes integrated, and currently has six other code contributions in progress via the Sponsor Program.  If you’re curious about contributions to date via the Sponsor Program, check out the request-sponsor table on…

Holaa!! pues esta me parece una gran opción para aquellos quienes siempre han querido ir al JavaOne pero su presupuesto no alcanza, solamente hay que ser creativos, crea tu video de 30 segundos, explica porque quieres y debes estar ahí, y puedes ganar un pase completo y 1,500 dlls. para gastos de viaje, tentador ¿no?

 Para mas información visita  http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/contest/

PD. Si alguien va gracias a que se enteró por este post, me traen un souvenir ehh!!

Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/alejandrafierro/entry/alguien_quiere_1_500_dlls

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Excerpt: Saludos a tod@s, Los que estén habituados a leer este Blog habrán leído, entre otras muchas cosas, los relatos de los eventos que suelo dar en la URV como parte de mi labor de Sun Campus Ambassador. Pues bien, este será un poco diferente :-). Desde hace un tiempo a esta parte, los SCAs de distintas universidades Europeas y otros trabajadores de Sun, hemos organizado un Tour Europeo para que diferentes Ingenieros de Sun den charlas interesantes en los distintos campus. Después de bastantes meetings de organización, se estableció el calendario y los speakers…

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Excerpt: Linqia - www.linquia.com is a marketplace for social networks, online communities and groups. With over 2,000 social networks and 80 million groups, Linqia’s marketplace establishes direct relationships with group leaders and facilitates connections and transactions across 100’s of Social Networks. Offerings include sponsorship opportunities, content, increased visibility, advertising and much more from commercial partners. Today, the Marketplace exclusively caters for business executives from Social Networks who register to the Marketplace and receive valuable opportunities from commercial partners. The full Marketplace will launch in December 2009. …

Six of us from @railsConfRunner ran together around Las Vegas Hilton this morning.

6.4 miles, 57:04 minutes.

Interested in running together ?

Join us at 6:15am in the Hilton lobby tomorrow morning!

Thanks to Jed for organizing the run, and of course all the running buddies to make it fun

Technorati: conf railsconf lasvegas hilton running Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/running_at_rails_conf_las

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Excerpt: I pre-ordered Pro OpenSolaris by Harry Foxwell and Christine Tran many moons ago and it finally arrived last week. Weighing in at just under 16 ounces, I’m looking forward to reading this one during my upcoming travels. Unlike the much chunkier (and therefore travel restricted) OpenSolaris Bible, Pro OpenSolaris assumes you already have some knowledge of "similar operating system" features such as GNOME, networking and the shell. Therefore, if you already have experience with Unix and/or Linux, this book will cut to the chase at explaining the unique features of OpenSolaris. I’ve only skimmed through the…

Amazon is poised to announce a larger version of its Kindle e-reader, according to sources cited in a news report that surfaced Sunday. Amazon, for its part, has sent out invitations to a press conference on Wed., though it hasn’t specified whether or not a new Kindle will make its debut in connection with the event. If the rumor is true, the big-screen Kindle will come only three months after Kindle 2 was launched. Source/Kaynak : http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/66976.html

Apple rejects an application from Trent Reznor for obscenity (maybe), and the Nine Inch Nails front man and entrepreneur extraordinaire shows them what obscenity really is.

Source/Kaynak : http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~3/7kXNCKzSkdA/

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Excerpt: Hugh Pickens writes “Industry experts claim the market for vintage whiskey has been flooded with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but instead contain worthless spirit made just a few years ago. Now researchers at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit have developed a method that can pinpoint the date a whiskey was made by detecting traces of radioactive particles created by nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s. ‘”It is easy to tell if whiskey is fake as if it has been produced since the middle of the twentieth century, it has a very distinctive signature,” says Dr….

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Excerpt: Many sources are reporting that SpringSource has acquired Hyperic, creating a company that could go after IBM and Microsoft. SpringSource has long dreamed of being able to offer a complete open source solution that accelerates the entire build, run, manage Java application lifecycle, and Hyperic offers the last piece of the puzzle. “Regardless, the SpringSource/Hyperic combination creates a clear and present danger to IBM and Microsoft, two companies that have largely stood alone in the ability to build, run, and manage applications. It’s also a significant boon to companies looking to open source to save money and improve productivity. Is…

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Excerpt:     If you’re planning to attend Jazoon’09 in Zurich, Switzerland, June 22-25, you can get a 20% discount on your conference pass (saving CHF 362) if you register for Jazoon via Doodle. Way cool!! Offer expires on May 31st.  Doodle will also draw one free full conference pass among all the people who register.  Doodle is an official partner and provides Branded Doodle for the conference organizers. Read more on the Doodle blog.  …

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Excerpt: Preparations for CommunityOne West are well under way here at Sun! The third annual developer conference will be from June 1-3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.    There is no fee to access the main conference on June 1, along with access to the Pavilion and JavaOne general session June 2-4.  Access to the CommunityOne Deep Dive sessions can be purchased for either one or two days, or you can purchase an All Access pass for complete access to both CommunityOne and JavaOne with reserved seating, express entry to sessions, and a computer bag. …

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Excerpt: The Internet is an American invention, and the governing body that assigns domain names to Web sites around the world has had its roots in the U.S. However, it’s time for ICANN — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — to go “global” in every sense of the word, according to one European Union official. EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding said in a Sunday video message on her Web site that she hopes the 11-year-old organization will stop operating under the auspices of the U.S. Commerce Department when its contract expires Sept. 30. Source/Kaynak :…

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Excerpt: New super-sensitive microwave detectors from the National Institute of Standards and Technology may soon tackle the question of what happened immediately following the big bang. “The new experiment will begin approximately a year from now on the Chilean desert and will consist of placing a large array of powerful NIST sensors on a telescope mounted in a converted shipping container. The detectors will look for subtle fingerprints in the CMB [cosmic microwave background] from primordial gravitational waves–ripples in the fabric of space-time from the violent birth of the universe more than 13 billion years ago. Such waves are believed to…