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  1. Installing GTK2 for Eclipse on Eclipse 2.1 Released · · Score: 1
    I had to "jump through a number of hoops" to install late Eclipse releases on Red Hat 7.3. At first it required the GTK from Red Hat 8. Now it requires an even newer GTK - I now use 2.1.1 from Rawhide.


    To upgrade this GTK I had to rebuild some pieces which in binary RPM form were built against a newer glibc than what I had.

  2. Workarounds? on Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ · · Score: 4, Informative
  3. Now what if I code in Java Bytecode Assembler? on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    I used to do 8086 assembler, and now do Java, so now Java bytecode assembler is interesting!

  4. Re:Yes, and partly language designers' doing on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    How about JRuby? I've tried a little native Ruby. Now I'm looking for scripting languages for our Java-written tools. I already know Python and Jython.

  5. Re:IBM on The Faded Sun · · Score: 1

    It's not just a coincidence that my Java work is done with either Eclipse or Jikes on the command line....

  6. Commercial issues on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 1
    The "science" article conveniently neglects the commercial aspect of peering. Since Internet backbones are mostly commercial businesses, that is an important aspect.

    On the opposite of Internap are the big carriers who don't allow peering but charge everyone. Selfish? Maybe, but they sunk in the capital.

  7. Re:GCJ on Sneak Peak at Java's New Makeover · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Covariant return types instead of full Generics on Sneak Peak at Java's New Makeover · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's a Good Thing that you'll have to use interfaces, and modify the superclass to return an interface instead of a concrete type. Of course that's not an option if you can't change your superclass.

  9. Re:cheapish unlimited bandwidth web server on Breakdown of Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 1

    I was looking for an unlimited bandwidth host as well, but this site gave some warnings.

  10. The Jakarta code is clean. on It's Time to 'Re-Align' the JCP? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've had the chance to pore through the Axis and Batik sources. Since they follow coding standards and common paradigms (or the overused "patterns"), it doesn't take much to figure out how they work, and extend them if need be.

  11. Re:I prefer that style of import statement on Building Java Enterprise Applications, Volume I · · Score: 1

    It's also specified by the Jakarta coding standards.

  12. J2ME has no floating point, either on Understanding The Japanese Wireless Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Unlike J2ME, there's no floating point arithmetic in DoCoMo's DOJA spec, so when I need to do calculations I use the MathFP class (for fixed-point calculations) written by Onno Hommes."


    Sorry but the J2ME CLDC doesn't support floating point, either. Isn't that a power consumption issue?
  13. Tyrants and Dictators on Billionaire Boys Cup (America's Cup 2003) · · Score: 1
    "We love your adherence to democratic principle."


    then Vice President George Bush, to Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, 1981.

  14. Re:Shades of Linuxgruven on Is Branding the Future of Open Source? · · Score: 1
  15. Jython? on Is Branding the Future of Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Jython is short for Java + Python. What's bad about that?

  16. No more Monday? on IBM Getting PwC Consulting for $3.5 Billion · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.monday.com used to be a site saying "PWC Consulting is now Monday" and explained the name. Now it points back to pwcconsulting.com and the IBM announcement.

  17. Learning from Net-Nexus Seoul on The Tangled Web Of Fiber Optics Lines & Gates · · Score: 1

    From the Net-Nexus Seoul article - will Bill G focus on pushing content over the pipes, requiring DRM, or will it be interactive person to person applications?

  18. And on a related note: on World's First Photo · · Score: 1

    What was the first digital photograph taken?
    Is it in some lab somewhere?

  19. Re:this book's title is misleading on Learning Wireless Java · · Score: 1

    The type of wireless network is already abstracted by the device. The Java program only sees an HTTP connection. As for SMS, the handset vendors have their own API's for that, but it's already considered for inclusion in the next version of J2ME.

  20. The origins of life on New Amino Acid Discovered · · Score: 1

    Does this bring us a step closer to figuring out how life on Earth started? If I recall right it's about building amino acids out of smaller chemicals, and living organisms out of that.

  21. Today's Monuments, Yesterday's Warnings on This Place is Not a Place of Honor · · Score: 1

    Who knows, that the Stonehenge, or Easter Island statues, or the Pyramids, are actually warnings from ancient cultures about forgotten technology.

    (Like, the "Bermuda Triangle? Or Sitchin's Earth Chronicles?)

  22. Obligatory question on The Ultimate Phone/PDA? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can it run Linux?

  23. Laying off Larry Wall? on Perl Foundation Awards Perl Development Grant to Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    Is that actually conceivable?

  24. Google Hits make you Popular? on Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva' · · Score: 1

    So Danese has 1000+ hits on Google... my name has got 5000+ ? Does that make me more important?

  25. Moving free software development "offshore?" on For Sale: 1 Damian Conway, 1 Dan Sugalski · · Score: 1

    Given the programmers' salaries paid to programmers in "First World" countries, how about pushing development to countries with lower cost of living, salaries, etc.?

    Of course you won't get stellar free software gurus at once, but you can grow the developers.