I downloaded a free version of Sybase for Linux back in 2000. Wonderful product, arguably easier and better designed than a certain other big RDBMS player.
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I was going to point out some of the mistakes in ESR's paper but I really can't be bothered now. Can someone get the Unix timeline fixed please!
Try the following snippet out on jdk 1.3.1 and 1.4.
public class JDK14Bug {
public static void main(String[] args) {
java.rmi.server.RemoteServer.setLog(null);
}
}
The javadoc says "Log RMI calls to the output stream out. If out is null, call logging is turned off."
To me 1.4 is broken. If I pass in a null I now get a NullPointerException with 1.4.
So I raised a bug on the java.sun.com site. A couple of weeks ago I get an email telling me it is a duplicate of another bug (which it isn't!). I was also told this is now the expected behaviour. It clearly doesn't follow the javadoc and has broken existing behaviour. I asked for Sun to look again but alas no reply.
Just to put history straight (from an ex-SCO employee of less than one week) OpenServer was originally from AT&T SysV R3.2 Unix source, not Xenix source. Yes alot of Xenix'isms were ported across but we were at one point developing Xenix and OSR5 (formerly ODT) from completely separate source bases.
Of course as the UK company BAe is in the Airbus consortium, by helping Boeing the UK government was killong a UK national industry. An industry that the UK government on many occasions has handed out large sums of money to to try and keep it a float. You work that one out then. I speak from the perspective of someone who has lived in a town for 25 years that original had the aircraft industry as its main employer. Its been gone now nearly 10 years and we are only just getting over the shockwave. Putting that aside though Mr Hanks and Mr Speilberg are putting to good use the airfield once again at the moment. There looks like a POW camp and small town are being constructed.
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I downloaded a free version of Sybase for Linux back in 2000. Wonderful product, arguably easier and better designed than a certain other big RDBMS player.
I was going to point out some of the mistakes in ESR's paper but I really can't be bothered now. Can someone get the Unix timeline fixed please!
Try the following snippet out on jdk 1.3.1 and 1.4.
public class JDK14Bug {
public static void main(String[] args) {
java.rmi.server.RemoteServer.setLog(null);
}
}
The javadoc says "Log RMI calls to the output stream out. If out is null, call logging is turned off."
To me 1.4 is broken. If I pass in a null I now get a NullPointerException with 1.4.
So I raised a bug on the java.sun.com site. A couple of weeks ago I get an email telling me it is a duplicate of another bug (which it isn't!). I was also told this is now the expected behaviour. It clearly doesn't follow the javadoc and has broken existing behaviour. I asked for Sun to look again but alas no reply.
What gives!
Just to put history straight (from an ex-SCO employee of less than one week) OpenServer was originally from AT&T SysV R3.2 Unix source, not Xenix source. Yes alot of Xenix'isms were ported across but we were at one point developing Xenix and OSR5 (formerly ODT) from completely separate source bases.
Of course as the UK company BAe is in the Airbus consortium, by helping Boeing the UK government was killong a UK national industry. An industry that the UK government on many occasions has handed out large sums of money to to try and keep it a float. You work that one out then. I speak from the perspective of someone who has lived in a town for 25 years that original had the aircraft industry as its main employer. Its been gone now nearly 10 years and we are only just getting over the shockwave. Putting that aside though Mr Hanks and Mr Speilberg are putting to good use the airfield once again at the moment. There looks like a POW camp and small town are being constructed.