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I don't know if you have ever tried to create a course that is taught in a university setting, but it takes a tremendous amount of work. Each of those lectures has at least 60 hours of work in the planning, creation and tweaking phases. As you well know, the EJB standard is huge. I cannot do a lecture that is half assed, okay? I just have not gotten around to completing the one on EJBs. I have the session beans part long done but the CMP part of the spec is so detailed, I just have not had time to finish it. I know the standard around slashdot is ridicule and negativity. I would not expect anything else. However, according to www.statcounter.com, my http://curmudgeon99.googlepages.com/ gets an average of 50 hits a day, many of those hits are people who stay on the site for up to 12 hours at a time--a few up to 29 hours! They come from all over the world and I get an overwhelmingly positive response to it. So, although you may get your jollies by ridiculing it because it lacks a lecture on EJB, that really is not the point. Google the site and you'll see there are lauding appraisals from all over the place, even in a variety of non-English sites such as French and even Arabic websites. They all say variants of "this is not to be missed." Therefore, have your laughs. The site is proving very valuable to a great many people and I have nothing to apoligise for.

Since you say you have no experience, I would recommend two parts: First, go to my Free Java Lectures website: (no ads or any other crap) http://curmudgeon99.googlepages.com/ And use them to learn J2EE fast (the later lectures are most of J2EE) Then, build yourself at least one complex application that includes a webapp, JDBC using a DataSource and possibly even Stateless Session beans (sorry no lecture from me on EJB) The act of doing a project will fix in your mind what you have learned from my Free Java Lectures. Then, get yourself a book on the certification and bone up on all the gotchas. Good luck!

Actually, the Vista windowing system is so far beyond X that there's no comparison.

Read this (also posted by someone else) for some depressing info on the state of X and why something new is needed: http://jonsmirl.googlepages.com/graphics.html

Of course the performance allowed by vanilla X is so godawful, that to get any decent performance at all requires "extensions" to X that basically ignore X architecture and are essentially hacks to provide high performance that wasn't even considered in the decade X was invented.

And don't get me started on security in X, the whole thing has to be run suid root.

I think that this is a good read (written by a former developer of Xgl) on how X is currently nothing more than hack after hack:
http://jonsmirl.googlepages.com/graphics.html

Looking at your resume, you haven't done much Windows API work, and in 1996 you hadn't done any. So let me correct a common misconception about Windows API programming:

There is no reason that someone else could not make controls that fade in with graphics and color menus. No secret Windows APIs are or were required to do this, even at that time. Windows has always allowed applications to draw whatever they want in their windows, and that includes transparency and fading. The win32s extensions for Windows 3.11 even offered support for non-rectangular windows. Even easier, Microsoft licensed their Office controls to applications developers who wanted to do it. There are no special undocumented API calls required to do this stuff.

Steve Yegge moved it here: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel

Data Fragmenation is less of an issue with an access time of 0ms.

See here.

First: What does this have to do with the subject at hand? Off topic. -1
Second: If you take
http://googlified.com.googlepages.com/contactlist. htm
and just strip the html page and go to:
http://googlified.com.googlepages.com/
You'll find a link to googlified.com

Some things are so simple they're complicated I guess.

First: What does this have to do with the subject at hand? Off topic. -1
Second: If you take
http://googlified.com.googlepages.com/contactlist. htm
and just strip the html page and go to:
http://googlified.com.googlepages.com/
You'll find a link to googlified.com

Some things are so simple they're complicated I guess.

Domain Name.......... googlified.com
    Creation Date........ 2006-02-06
    Registration Date.... 2006-02-06
    Expiry Date.......... 2007-02-06
    Organisation Name.... Feng Zeng
    Organisation Address. [home(?) address]
    Organisation Address. Columbus
    Organisation Address. 43229
    Organisation Address. OH
    Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... Haochi Chen
    Admin Address........ [home(?) address]
    Admin Address........ Columbus
    Admin Address........ 43229
    Admin Address........ OH
    Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
    Admin Email.......... haochi.chen@gmail.com
    Admin Phone.......... [real phone number]

Here's another..

http://zavlakas.googlepages.com/BackupHDDVD.zip

> Nothing PC about it.

An ironic comment from someone with a web address of http://whineymacfanboy.googlepages.com/

I actually think it would've been more appropriate to link to my diary Why is Apple afraid of being PC ;-)

> I am amazed that so few slashdotters (reading the first 10 posts or so) are unfamiliar with that term. (Do you all live under rocks or something?)

They may not live under rocks, but it would be interesting to know where they do live.

Here in Australia, 'sex worker' is a fairly common pseudonym for prostitute.

> Nothing PC about it.

An ironic comment from someone with a web address of http://whineymacfanboy.googlepages.com/ !

More spam from the idiot who was caught spamming digg.

This guy has been caught spamming dozens of sites. Apparently, only /. editors don't get it.

I was messin around with googlepages
http://networkzombie.googlepages.com/

Google realized that and developed Google Co-Op. There's a lot of customized Search Engine nowadays. I have a search engine specialized in RPG (Role Playing Games). When you do a search there, you won't get RPG programming language replies, and so on. If you wanna try it, it's on http://rpgsearchengine.googlepages.com/ .

OK, when I saw the mention that this was a RoughlyDrafted article, I figured I'd do something fun: Without looking at the article, I'm going to try guessing how many paragraphs it is until the first Microsoft bash.

My guess is 5.

Now to count... Wow, I was way off. The first one (veiled insult) doesn't appear until paragraph 11.

However, I did correctly predict that it would bash Microsoft, so I was right in one respect.

I can summarize this article in one sentence: Apple doesn't blog because Microsoft sucks.

Seriously, why do you continue linking to this guy's articles? Every single one, whether it has to do with Microsoft or not, eventually devolves into an extended bash on Microsoft. Even if the information in it is incorrect. Even if it means applying double standards (one for Apple, one for Microsoft). I mean, I don't exactly love Microsoft either, but they should at least convey correct information. There's a reason why Digg users bury his stories (well, maybe not since his 60+ shill accounts came about).

alternatively...
http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie

I wonder why it's news when it's on a Mac :)

In case you don't know, this article was submited by Daniel Eran who was caught spamming Digg with his useless articles...

Check out how he was caught:
http://ba01162.googlepages.com/RoughlyDraftedBUSTE D.html

The story contains some great facts for people who are unaware, but the author doesn't seem to be going anywhere with it. First he talks about the "billion dollar patent" then goes off on a tangent about IP without ever explaining how any of it ties back into the original issue.

I'd give it an A for research, but a C- for usefulness.

Also, what is up with the "we're being censored by Digg" bit at the end? Following his Digg links, it seems like everything is working fine. The only thing I found on the subject was this accusation claiming that Roughly Drafted is trying to game digg. The only thing I can figure is that some of the new algorithms (which favor users who have gotten stories to the front page) killed the stories from getting to the front page. Whether someone is gaming the system or not, he needs more established users in order to get his stories to the front page.

Picture can be found here

I really should just go to bed...

DugUK

RoughlyDrafted [...] also calls out what they called a "Digg Fraud Campaign"

I like it. I know, javascript isn't everybody's favourite, but still, it really increases search speed and even though you can't bookmark page X of your search result, at least the results per se are bookmarkable (i.e. not loaded using javascript).

There's also a firefox search plugin, btw.

Satoru Iwata is my Prime Minister.

Or, even without the trailing slash: http://andrews.trash.googlepages.com/home

"Use the preview button! Check those URLs!"

I have had a creepy feeling about a local restaurant. Now I can confirm my fears are true... http://andrews.trash.googlepages.com/home/

Straight Talk about Copyrights

A violent protest against Patents

A Bitter protest against copyrights

To add one more to the practicing programming folder (or perhaps a new folder called 'Motivation'):
http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/practicing-prog ramming

Every Programmer Should Read This!

Ok, I managed to wget the final screenshot, enjoy: http://cosurgi.googlepages.com/iemess2.jpg

Had trouble getting this, others obviously as well, so here it is.

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The Discreet Charms of the Nanny State
Published by Shivam Vij October 6th, 2006 in The Internet and bylines.

Books and films are banned as a result of protests when someone claims to be offended, but websites are blocked unilaterally, clandestinely by the government in its benign attempt to save you from propaganda of both the extreme left and the extreme right.

An edited version of this article by me has appeared in Tehelka.

On 29 June this year, the Department of Telecom of the Ministry of India's Communication and Information Technology asked some 150 Internet Servive Providers to block access to the website of the People's War Group, www.geocities.com/cpimlpwg. Exactly a month later, the DoT issues another letter informing ISPs that "M/S Yahoo! Inc." (which runs Geocities) had removed the PWG site anyway, and so all ISPs were requested to make sure that Geocities per se was not blocked.

This is the first time a provider of Internet services has agreed to the Indian government's demand of completely removing a particular website, thus establishing a dangerous precedent. Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft do this regularly for China and other countries, with the difference that it is public knowledge there, and these companies come under attack from free speech activists the world over.

It is curious as to what made Yahoo! Change its mind about India: in 2003 they had refused the India's demand to remove a mailing list run on Yahoo! Groups by a banned militant outfit, the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), a militant outfit of the Khasi tribe in Meghalaya.

The terms and conditions of these online services - which no one reads - clearly say that they may terminate their services on requests by law enforcement or other government agencies without prior notice.

On 15 May 2006, the Maoist website www.peoplesmarch.com was deleted by their hosting company on the request of the Indian government. Not that it has made much of a difference to them: they're now at http://peoplesmarch.googlepages.com/ whose homepage asserts their right to free speech and condemns India's censorship attempts. So how long before this site gets blocked too? To be sure they have put up all their content on http://peoplesmarch.wordpress.com/ as well. Planning to block this one too? They have the content stored somewhere on their hard disk and they'll put it up on a thousand free sites. There's also http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/ and many more.

The most illustrative case of Internet censorship in India is that of Hinduunity.org, which, though run from the US by one Rohit Vyasmaan, claims to be the official website of the Bajrang Dal. The Hindu Unity site posts anti-Muslim hate speech, creative interpretation of Qur'anic verses and most famously, a "hit list" of those who it says are against Hindus. The hit list has on it not just leftist columnists but also people and organisations who in India would be regarded as being somewhat sympathetic to Hindutva. Lalu Prasad Yadav is listed for "swindling Gau-chara's money"!

In 2001, the site's then host in the US, Addr.com, received complaints about the site. Vyasmaan told Addr.com that his site did not advocate violence, but they shut down the site anyway for its very obvious hate speech. As it happened, Hinduunity.org was then rescued by Rabbi Meir's Kahane group, a banned Zionist organisation in the US. Hinduunity now advocates "Hindu militancy" on its site, and heavily aligns with the anti-Palestine cause. No wonder it is block in countries of the Middle East as well.

Hinduunity.org was first blocked by India in 2004, when the NDA was in power and when the site was calling Atal Bihari Vajpayee names for 'catching the pseudo-secularism bug'. Curiously, in July 2006 the DoT again asked for

^^(Shit, wrong formatting!)

My Firefox on WinXP has been open about 8 hours and is using only 129 MB so far. I have 16 extensions loaded right now.

Generated: Sat Oct 07 2006 00:57:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061004 BonEcho/2.0
Build ID: 2006100403

Enabled Extensions: [16]
- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7 RC 4: http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/
- ChatZilla 0.9.75: http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/
- CoLT 2.2.1: http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/
- Console 0.3.6: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3181 02
- DOM Inspector 1.8.1: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/
- FoxyTunes 2.0.2.1: http://www.foxytunes.com/
- Gmail Manager 0.5.3: http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/
- Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- MR Tech Local Install 5.3: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
- Saved From URL 1.2: http://www.google.com/search?q=Bon%20Echo%20Saved% 20From%20URL
- Stylish 0.4: http://userstyles.org/stylish/
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.61001: http://tmp.garyr.net/
- Talkback 2.0: http://talkback.mozilla.org/
- Update Channel Selector 1.0.1: http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/u pdatechannel/index.html
- userChrome.js 0.7: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3977 35
- XPather 1.0.1: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/

Disabled Extensions: [1]
- Free Download Manager plugin 1.0: http://freedownloadmanager.org/

Total Extensions: 17

Installed Themes: [3]
- Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/
- Halloween 1.9.5: http://edhume.googlepages.com/home
- QuBranch 1.0.20060929: http://www.schrade.com/firefox/themes/

Installed Plugins: (10)
- Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 8
- Microsoft® DRM
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- OpenOffice.org Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.1
- RealPlayer Version Plugin
- RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)
- Shockwave Flash
- Shockwave for Director
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

My Firefox on WinXP has been open about 8 hours and is using only 129 MB so far. I have 16 extensions loaded right now. Generated: Sat Oct 07 2006 00:57:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061004 BonEcho/2.0 Build ID: 2006100403 Enabled Extensions: [16] - All-in-One Sidebar 0.7 RC 4: http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/ - ChatZilla 0.9.75: http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/ - CoLT 2.2.1: http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/ - Console 0.3.6: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3181 02 - DOM Inspector 1.8.1: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/ - FoxyTunes 2.0.2.1: http://www.foxytunes.com/ - Gmail Manager 0.5.3: http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/ - Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ - MR Tech Local Install 5.3: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/ - Saved From URL 1.2: http://www.google.com/search?q=Bon%20Echo%20Saved% 20From%20URL - Stylish 0.4: http://userstyles.org/stylish/ - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.61001: http://tmp.garyr.net/ - Talkback 2.0: http://talkback.mozilla.org/ - Update Channel Selector 1.0.1: http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/u pdatechannel/index.html - userChrome.js 0.7: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3977 35 - XPather 1.0.1: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/ Disabled Extensions: [1] - Free Download Manager plugin 1.0: http://freedownloadmanager.org/ Total Extensions: 17 Installed Themes: [3] - Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/ - Halloween 1.9.5: http://edhume.googlepages.com/home - QuBranch 1.0.20060929: http://www.schrade.com/firefox/themes/ Installed Plugins: (10) - Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 8 - Microsoft® DRM - Mozilla Default Plug-in - OpenOffice.org Plug-in - QuickTime Plug-in 7.1 - RealPlayer Version Plugin - RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) - Shockwave Flash - Shockwave for Director - Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

Try both in this MSX emulation in javascript and see the difference:
http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html

The "emulating ancient computer hardware" JavaScript benchmark is exactly the one I'm interested in.

(Not.)

Javascript in Firefox 2.0 is about 50% slower than in Firefox 1.5.

Try both in this MSX emulation in javascript and see the difference:
http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html

I don't care if I get modded down because I'm only submitting this so that Google
will index my homepage. I hope this
is not considered spam. Anyway it's no less contentful than the parent message.

I have two answers.

In the movie "Inside Man", an 8-year-old boy carries with him a portable video game system. The "villian" in the movie plays the game briefly, and we see the game action on the screen. This clip of the scene is Spike Lee's over-the-top attempt to show us that video game violence has gone too far. Ironically, he fears someone may take his idea and run with it.

Don't forget about his finger.

I wrote a script in Perl to automate the process. It includes tagging the DRM-free files with the same tags as the original. This includes artwork, lyrics, etc. Download the script here

Nice work! I have a similar project, but using J2ME, works on cell phones, palm and pocket-pc.
You can download Here, and is free. When I get some time, will upload it to sourceforge, i already have the project name reserved, SmartMap.
Would like to start it as a Google Project instead, but it says the name is taken :(

Here you go! (ripping off tx's rather funny one from this post as a basis)

Now - someone (please?) really needs to do a php version :-)

Ah, yeah, I guess it's been too long. In that case, QuEnc (a free encoder based on libavcodec from the FFMPEG project) may be the best choice.

That's because they are responsible ones.

My Site probably wont win the *Sashdot* redesign contest.

Amazingly I wrote a whole book about movies and politics but from the perspective of us gone wrong. Yeah, people like us as hardcore street racers. This iblurb is from something we should all remember, the University of Florida creating a model airplane wing that can alter its shape in flight...I'm not asking you to buy the book. Hell, if this [not just a googlepage, MY damn googlepage] seems interesting to you (apparently this is unlikely), I will send you the .pdf. Anyway...

27 August 2005
Dr. Lind: Fascist Punch in the Balls

        So I was reading the BBC site's science section today, and this guy at UF invented a new kind of remote control plane that can change the shape of its wings like seagulls so it can fly in all kinds of situations like in cities or whatever. Well the government is sponsoring the program, so it's not like this thing will be at the hobby store anytime soon. I don't even know why the BBC, normally a bunch of hip cats, put this in the science section. The creators were talking about how they had x space and y weight for payloads or cargo, or whatever. "A mission payload would include a mission camera, chemical sensors, and potentially, acoustic sensors for listening outside apartment windows, for example," said Dr. Lind.
        So what the fuck times two, Dr. Lind. Are you like some sort of drunk Nazi poker player tipping your hand? Are we, meaning me, supposed to be your conscience? Here's a hint, Lind. If you need the president of a Ford Focus street racing gang to be the angel on your shoulder, debating the DARPA devil, then we're all well and truly fucked.
        So when you get spied on by your own fucking toy, remember we didn't tell you so. You told yourself so, dumb shit. Now go clone some dinosaurs, fuckwad. You ought to make a plane that shoots me with a tranquilizer before I slug you right in the gut, you ass.
        And the other what the fuck: Why just apartments? 'Only renters are dissenters,' Lind? Fuck man, when I come up with 1984/Brave New World rhymes that fucking easily we're over the sanity horizon.
        So how does all this relate to the ***CAUTION SPOILERS***? Well Tommy and Dawson were mixing it up on the Sawgrass last night, and Tommy popped off a Roman candle at some minivan people who were prolly just going home to see if they had electricity yet, just so they would cut off Dawson. Well that violates one of our core credos, and about thirteen of our sub-credos about making sure the squares don't catch fire and die and shit. I don't even know what to do about this. Tommy is cool and all, and definitely fun at parties, but if the fucking cops come to the Beach House today, I will go so fucking ballistic. Fuck, Tricky wants him out right now, because his parents are minivan people, and he's got a sister and all. But if I was Tricky, I'd be more worried about Dawson fucking my sister than Tommy putting a dozen bottle rockets through the window of their Villager.
        You know I started writing this when I got bored, then things got fun, but now the hurricane, which is fucking New Orleans up in a serious biblical way, and Tommy going completely non-linear, it's getting all serious. I gotta sort this shit out. I hate sorting shit out. Fuck man, it's a minivan, not an opportunity. We aren't some fucking Neitschze car club. No Roarkes, no Freidrichs. I shouldn't have to spell this shit out.

I would never, ever, ever even _think_ of trying to write an Ajax application. I hate javascript way too much for that, and the whole asynchronous web-page dynamicness scares the shit out of me. However, I can stand writing GUI code in Java, and I already have some knowledge of how it works. GWT enables me to write super-cool Ajax websites without worrying a bit about javascript. I think this is the true power of GWT: it enables _application_ developers (rather than web developers) to write nice web applications without learning a whole new skillset. This is a win for developers because we can do cool things without learning a whole new trade, and it's a win for consumers because web apps can be written by skilled application developers instead of photoshop gurus.

Also, just because GWT provides some server-side machinery doesn't mean you have to use it. GWT will happily make asynchronous calls to any old URL, so you can write your backend in PHP or Perl or C or whatever you like. Personally, I've been playing with GWT using PHP/SQLite as my backend (following Juan Hurtado's great tutorial). It works great, and since I'm already comfortable with Java, PHP and SQL, it doesn't require a steep learning curve to create very nice web apps.

That said, I will certainly be taking a deeper look at TFA later and perhaps following its example to learn how to use the Java server-side machinery. Could be interesting.

Forgot to link the page.