User: EI-AOB

From what department?

On: New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net

from the what-a-pain-in-the-arse dept.

Arse? When did you move to England (or Ireland), Rob?

i _Series_, not Server

On: OS/390 Replaced By z/OS

But at the same time IBM renamed the AS/400 the "iServer".

Not "iServer", but iSeries. As in, e(logo)Server iSeries. Ditto for the zSeries.

Wouldn't work in my company...

On: Yahoo Geographically Targeting Users

...because all users throughout Europe (UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands) access the Internet through a firewall in the UK. The internal networks all use 10.* addressing, so all web requests seem to come from the firewall address.

Au contraire

On: Standard For MP3 CD Players Planned For March

the format is still in flux

According to the FAQ, "the file format has been finished for some time."

Re:Hmm.

On: Sony Pursues New Digital Display Technology

They seem to have thought of this. From one of the presentations on their site:

• Inherent reduction of laser speckle
  • Natural reduction of speckle through fundamental linear scanning approach
  • Use of multiple non- coherent sources (i. e. laser bars or multiple DPSS lasers) further reduces speckle
  • Use of non- polarized light enables novel speckle reduction means

Re:Why I dislike Java

On: Why Linux Lovers Jilt Java

- Incremental garbage collection. True incremental collection, with no more sweep checks

IBM's implementation of Java on the AS/400 (sorry, iSeries) does this. It's a shame nobody ever mentions the iSeries when discussing Java -- it has to be by far the best implementation of the language yet.

Re:Aircraft too!

On: Proton Polymer Battery

Even possibly affordable enough for personal ownership.

Maybe. In about forty years' time, after all the trials, and type approval, and lawsuits, and...