As shameful as some of the comments are (I'm embarrassed as well by some of the bigotry on here), let's not feed into the animosity more by painting us all with the same brush.
At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft is delaying the update in the Netherlands (home of DigiNotar) until next week, to avoid confusion (and to buy the government more time to roll out new certs).
I feel much safer now, knowing our government has the power to stop Microsoft from rolling out security updates in a country.
I'm in the Netherlands and I got the patch just fine. Must be because I use the English version of Windows
Currently using OpenSSO on a product, I've seen that Oracle has removed more and more (now including the Wiki content it seems) from the project. This is going to be one in a long line of project cancelations.
Oracle has already announced that Netbeans will stay and be developed more. Depending on the FAQ you access Netbeans will focus more on Java and/or Dynamic languages (which includes PHP)
Yes, that's the first thing I was thinking too. We have had these for a while and were recently taken back into service after a crash (which was unfortunately caused by an operator forcing an override)
I agree on the test drive, but the iApps are probably one of the reasons people buy Mac's iTunes for music, iPhoto for organizing your pictures and iWeb to put it all online in a way that even my parents can understand without too much hassle.
Interestingly enough, if you install the OS you don't get the iApps by default
What are you talking about? You can download the latest OpenSolaris right here without any registration: http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.html And Sun finally stepped into the new decade by finally providing a package manager by using IPS.
As for the red tape, all large open source organisations require contributors to sign some form of agreement to allow them stewardship over the code. This allows them to relicense it in the future. Sure Sun was slow and late on the uptake, but they are opening up a lot more than other companies.
This needs to be posted to the daily wtf (not sanity safe)
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Java SE 6 is not yet the fully open source version. Expect the entire Java SE to be GPL by early 2007 "http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.j sp"
"Q: When will you finish open sourcing the JDK? What is the timeline? A: We expect to release a fully buildable JDK based almost completely on open-sourced code in the first half of 2007"
Because the classes are generated at runtime, GCJ forces you to run these at interpreted speed and can't compare with the current hotspot VM's Any big webapplication would be doomed unless you precompile the whole thing into a.so (yuck?) The biggest advantage of using GCJ would probably be in the fact that you don't need to lug a whole JVM (which is around 10 Mb) for a simple application.
I agree and this is also my experience creating enterprise applications.
Whenever I need to benchmark databases or enterprise applications I use the same method. Often you start by taking a sample of the average useage (if the system is not live yet you need to come up with different user scenario's that will be most likely used) and mimic the load based on that. My metric would be in user sessions per minute/hour/day Different parts of the industry but it is a good method Surely I could also go and insert, select, update and remove the same data in the database a few million times and find a certain figure (like a PCMark or 3DMark would do) but I'd most likely end up testing the database caching and find my application burning down in production because the benchmark never tested things like transactions or actual datasets which are closer to the real workload.
The point of a benchmark is to create a repeatable testmethod which yields a result you can then use to compare different systems with (in my case I could be comparing different hardware or different methods of retrieving data) Synthetic benchmarks do that too, but the results are meaningless especially when your vendor optimizes for them.
Thank you for the summary. Now I know that outsourcing and H1B workers are a bit of a hot issue in the US, but also think of other people who may have a reason to live in the US. (other than plainly economical) I for example have my significant other living in the US and at some point I'm hoping to leave Europe and live and work in the US instead. I gave up on the H1B altogether for the reasons that I never got my masters (I got my bachelors and decided I didn't want to go back to school for a few more years, I have bills to pay and working seemed to give me much more than school) and it seems US companies are only interested in cheap foreign labor. That is where the real issue is and I just hope that not every American looks down on immigrants as them wanting to get a free ride into your country and steal your jobs. I'd be leaving behind a good paying job here and a relatively stable secure lifestyle in favor of the US job market rolercoaster.
This is nothing on you, I just wanted to thank you for your clear summary and reiterate how the H1B program just does not work for immigrants other than those from cheap labor countries. I wish it could work for me.
More scary than that, I have somebody living in this country with the exact same first and last name and a birthdate close to mine. He has also sent in some questionable jokes to a dutch radio station:-/
This is in my opinion the danger of depending on information you find online using google on somebody's name. You never know if it's about the same person.
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As shameful as some of the comments are (I'm embarrassed as well by some of the bigotry on here), let's not feed into the animosity more by painting us all with the same brush.
At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft is delaying the update in the Netherlands (home of DigiNotar) until next week, to avoid confusion (and to buy the government more time to roll out new certs).
I feel much safer now, knowing our government has the power to stop Microsoft from rolling out security updates in a country.
I'm in the Netherlands and I got the patch just fine.
Must be because I use the English version of Windows
Currently using OpenSSO on a product, I've seen that Oracle has removed more and more (now including the Wiki content it seems) from the project.
This is going to be one in a long line of project cancelations.
Oracle has already announced that Netbeans will stay and be developed more.
Depending on the FAQ you access Netbeans will focus more on Java and/or Dynamic languages (which includes PHP)
Actually Chrome does; I'm using it to deploy large WAR files and it gives me a nice percentage on the left bottom of my browser
Sun has made great strides in making OpenSolaris just work, try the latest releases
Yes, we do that too at a bank I work for.
Even better is that the appointed AYIC officer for our office has been caught twice not locking his desktop.
And yes, it's easy to retaliate by forging email, but it loses it's effect in an IT environment.
http://www.samba.org/rsync/
Or something like it in Windows.
It will check the delivered files, retry chunks if needed.
Much better than just FTP
I'm sure there are plenty of people who travel to the US as part of their work.
Yes, that's the first thing I was thinking too.
We have had these for a while and were recently taken back into service after a crash (which was unfortunately caused by an operator forcing an override)
I agree on the test drive, but the iApps are probably one of the reasons people buy Mac's
iTunes for music, iPhoto for organizing your pictures and iWeb to put it all online in a way that even my parents can understand without too much hassle.
Interestingly enough, if you install the OS you don't get the iApps by default
What are you talking about? You can download the latest OpenSolaris right here without any registration: http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.html
And Sun finally stepped into the new decade by finally providing a package manager by using IPS.
As for the red tape, all large open source organisations require contributors to sign some form of agreement to allow them stewardship over the code. This allows them to relicense it in the future. Sure Sun was slow and late on the uptake, but they are opening up a lot more than other companies.
Wow, you should send this story in to the TheDailyWtF.com
This needs to be posted to the daily wtf (not sanity safe)
Java SE 6 is not yet the fully open source version.j sp"
Expect the entire Java SE to be GPL by early 2007
"http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.
Some help on getting you back in the saddle with the new features:
1.5 features in a nutshell
See also here
"Q:
When will you finish open sourcing the JDK? What is the timeline?
A:
We expect to release a fully buildable JDK based almost completely on open-sourced code in the first half of 2007"
OpenJDK project
Hotspot
Early 2007 we should see the class libs as well
What about JSP's?
.so (yuck?)
Because the classes are generated at runtime, GCJ forces you to run these at interpreted speed and can't compare with the current hotspot VM's
Any big webapplication would be doomed unless you precompile the whole thing into a
The biggest advantage of using GCJ would probably be in the fact that you don't need to lug a whole JVM (which is around 10 Mb) for a simple application.
Actually I saw it when I gazed out the window last night and I live in an urban setting.
When you travel far enough you can see several per hour.
I agree and this is also my experience creating enterprise applications.
Whenever I need to benchmark databases or enterprise applications I use the same method.
Often you start by taking a sample of the average useage (if the system is not live yet you need to come up with different user scenario's that will be most likely used) and mimic the load based on that. My metric would be in user sessions per minute/hour/day
Different parts of the industry but it is a good method
Surely I could also go and insert, select, update and remove the same data in the database a few million times and find a certain figure (like a PCMark or 3DMark would do) but I'd most likely end up testing the database caching and find my application burning down in production because the benchmark never tested things like transactions or actual datasets which are closer to the real workload.
The point of a benchmark is to create a repeatable testmethod which yields a result you can then use to compare different systems with (in my case I could be comparing different hardware or different methods of retrieving data)
Synthetic benchmarks do that too, but the results are meaningless especially when your vendor optimizes for them.
Thank you for the summary.
Now I know that outsourcing and H1B workers are a bit of a hot issue in the US, but also think of other people who may have a reason to live in the US. (other than plainly economical)
I for example have my significant other living in the US and at some point I'm hoping to leave Europe and live and work in the US instead.
I gave up on the H1B altogether for the reasons that I never got my masters (I got my bachelors and decided I didn't want to go back to school for a few more years, I have bills to pay and working seemed to give me much more than school) and it seems US companies are only interested in cheap foreign labor.
That is where the real issue is and I just hope that not every American looks down on immigrants as them wanting to get a free ride into your country and steal your jobs.
I'd be leaving behind a good paying job here and a relatively stable secure lifestyle in favor of the US job market rolercoaster.
This is nothing on you, I just wanted to thank you for your clear summary and reiterate how the H1B program just does not work for immigrants other than those from cheap labor countries. I wish it could work for me.
More scary than that, I have somebody living in this country with the exact same first and last name and a birthdate close to mine. :-/
He has also sent in some questionable jokes to a dutch radio station
This is in my opinion the danger of depending on information you find online using google on somebody's name.
You never know if it's about the same person.
Read the parent post again