Saturday, February 28, 2004

SuperFoods

Fourteen Foods : "Beans � Blueberries � Broccoli � Oats �
Oranges � Pumpkin � Salmon � Soy � Spinach �
Tea -- green or black � Tomatoes � Turkey � Walnuts � Yogurt "

Friday, February 27, 2004

NewSID

NewSID Allows changing windows SID after cloning..

NewSID

NewSID Allows changing windows SID after cloning..

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

IBM releases first 'autonomic' SDK

SDK IBM said the Autonomic Computing Toolkit, which is being added to the Eclipse suite of open source tools, is the first integrated collection of assets, tools, and support to assist developers to design and test autonomic applications and to include them in their current projects.

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Slashdot | Debugging

Slashdot | Debugging: "Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems "

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Linksys: Support Pages

Linksys: Support Pages: "Configuring WEP encryption can be confusing, especially when using multiple WLAN products f"

WRAPI Documentation

Documentation: "Disabling Wireless Zero COnfiguration"

Munich's switch to Linux facing a bumpy road

As the article points out, the city elected to spend approximately US$12 million above the costs of the proposed Microsoft solution"

Saturday, February 14, 2004

Programmers = Songwriters

GROKLAW: "I do not buy it, not at all.

Songwriters are not 'tainted' because they've listened to the radio,
gone to concerts, or even, downloaded songs from the internet.

Novelists are not 'tainted' because they've read books, visited
libraries, or even looked over someone else's shoulder while they were writing.

Tell me again what makes programming fundamentally different from those
professions? And how does that jibe with 'equal protection' doctrine?"

Copyright

GROKLAW: "Copyright, however, poses a different problem. Every transfer of the code on the internet, and indeed every use of a computer to look at the code, involves making a technical 'copy.' Courts have fairly uniformly held that such technical copying - made necessary by digital technology - infringes Microsoft's exclusive right to reproduce the work in question (here, the Windows source code, a literary work). Absent fair use, anyone who causes his or her computer to put the code onto the screen (or to print out the whole version) is subject to all of the draconian remedies of copyright.
On the other hand, it is still not yet an infringement of copyright simply to read an infringing copy of a work (unless perhaps you break through a technological measure designed to control access to it, which would invoke the DMCA). "

Windows Code for the Taking

Wired News: : "Security officials said the compressed files amounted to a CD-ROM's worth of data and represented less than 5 percent of Windows code."

Friday, February 13, 2004

A Refactoring Example [Oct. 09, 2003]

perl.com:]: "A Refactoring Example": The code was reading records in from a text file and then doing a series of queries based on that information.

Eric Raymond says "Release Java"

Release Java code
Eric S. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, said in an open letter Thursday that Sun needs to choose between controlling Java and seeing it spread as widely as possible.

Thursday, February 12, 2004

Sun caches in with processor plans

Sun's dual-core UltraSparc IV can handle two simultaneous threads. Another chip, code-named Niagara, will be able to handle 32 simultaneous threads using eight cores that can each handle four threads, but it won't be able to execute a single thread at maximum speed. "

Sunday, February 08, 2004

Generics in C#, Java, and C++

Article : interview of Anders Hejlsberg: " Java's generics implementation relies on erasure of the type parameter, when you get to runtime, you don't actually have a faithful representation of what you had at compile time. When you apply reflection to a generic List in Java, you can't tell what the List is a List of. It's just a List. Because you've lost the type information, any type of dynamic code-generation scenario, or reflection-based scenario, simply doesn't work. If there's one trend that's pretty clear to me, it's that there's more and more of that. And it just doesn't work, because you've lost the type information. Whereas in our implementation, all of that information is available. You can use reflection to get the System.Type for object List. You cannot actually create an instance of it yet, because you don't know what T is. But then you can use reflection to get the System.Type for int. You can then ask reflection to please put these two together and create a List, and you get another System.Type for List. So representationally, anything you can do at compile time you can also do at runtime. "

HP to unveil new Itanium, Unix servers

"The mx2 technology, code-named Hondo"

Saturday, February 07, 2004

Sun 'explains' open source at EclipseCon

NewsForge | Sun 'explains' open source at EclipseCon: "why doesn't Sun open source Java and why Sun doesn't join Eclipse. His answer to the first was that he believes Sun has open sourced Java. To the second, he replied that it was because Sun and IBM are competing in that space. "

SAP looks into Web services revamp

"Project Vienna "headed by Zenke

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

XBox Next

MercuryXbox: "Three IBM-designed 64-bit microprocessors"