Both Eclipse and Derby are the result of previous shopping sprees by IBM.
Eclipse was developed by the IBM Ottawa Software Lab. This lab started life as OTI, a company which developed Smalltalk technology, that IBM bought in 1996.
Derby is the open-source version of the Cloudscape DB. Cloudscape was a Java DB company which was acquired by Informix in 1999, which was in turn acquired by IBM in 2005.
A major Objective C project outside Mac OS X! Yay!
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The main contributors to this project have been Objective C supporters for a long time, and it shows! Looking at the tree on the Build It section of the site, the server depends on libFoundation and some GNUstep libraries.
I'm glad to see Objective C being put to good use outside of Mac OS X user interfaces... It's a good language, and it deserves better. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised... the sponsors, SKYRiX, have contributed a lot of good code for the free software ObjC community.
I hope this encourages more people to learn Objective C...
This is the second time I've seen the accusation of GSM bribing govt. officials in Brazil. Could you care to provide some reference for this? I live in Brazil, and I only hear about this happening from CDMA supporters overseas.
As for legal action, I can't see this pattern of GSM fighting CDMA here: all telecom companies in Brazil sue their competitors all the time. In fact, the CDMA providers sued the GSM providers first, to prevent them from starting operations.
There are only two countries that use CDMA - America and Koria.
Well, I live in Brazil, and my mobile phone uses CDMA; and I'm told there are CDMA networks in other countries in South America.
However, your points stand, as global roaming for CDMA phones is pitiful indeed, especially compared to GSM. And one thing that irritates me is how many features GSM phones have that CDMA phones don't even dream of having...
Amanda is a great package! However, it's only a backup manager; it still needs dump and tar (and uses them automatically) to generate the backups before sending them to tape or the holding disk.
When I set up an Amanda environment a few jobs back, the place had Linux and FreeBSD servers; the FreeBSD servers used dump, and the Linux servers used tar, and it all worked like charm. However, the Linux backups were a lot slower, because of tar; if I had to do it again, I'd probably use SGI xfs on the Linux servers, as it has xfsdump, a working version of dump.
I never could get into Lupin. I always felt that I was outside of its target audience. Cowboy Bebop is a better series anyway. See you space cowboy...
I love both series... in fact, my first reaction to Cowboy Bebop was "Cool! Lupin in space!" as the main characters and dynamics among them are very similar:
Lupin - Spike - protagonist
Jigen - Jet Black - protagonist's friend and helper
Fujiko - Faye Valentine - beautiful woman that is around the protagonists, but has her own agenda.
Lupin was made in the late '60s/early '70s, and anime has evolved a lot since them. But we must acknowledge its influence in what came later... Especially on our space cowboys, where it's quite visible.
Now that's a troll if I ever seen one! Lula, the Brazilian president elect has made deals with several parties to support his government, most of them as far from communism or socialism as they can be. Some were even considered right-wing!
Some of his biggest suppporters now have been in positions of power in Brazil since the military dictatorship ('64-'85)... I seriously doubt they'll let him change things around much. Lula had socialist ideas years ago, but now he's much more of a social democrat.
Also, since he won't take over until January, I don't think it's fair to blame him for our current problems... let's wait a bit for that.
And we're free to play whatever we want, thank you very much. However, keep this in mind: I'm an Computer Engineer with 5 years of experience, and an X-Box or a PS2 costs here close to half my monthly income. As much as I'd love to play Crazy Taxi III (I'm a big Sega fan), I do have a ton of other priorities... like rent and groceries.
For the record, I did not vote for Lula on the election. I supported Ciro Gomes, the candidate of the PPS... ten years ago this was the Brazilian Communist Party, but they have since come a lot closer to the center. I didn't think Lula was the best candidate, but I expect him to be a good president.
I've observed that most Americans are very right-wing, and they don't have a lot of grays in their view: you're either a conservative, or a commie pinko bastard (actually, some liberal Americans would probably be considered very conservative elsewhere). In Brazil, a lot of people skew to the left politically (probably the majority nowadays), but communists and socialists are few and far between. There's a lot of shades on liberal politics, but some people seem to be blinded to it.
Does anybody know if this driver supports the video input/output features of my All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV? I'd love to have xawtv running on my screen, or to watch mplayer on the TV.
Those who read the Marvel comics in the 80's will be interested to know that one of the principals here is Jim Shooter, the Editor-in-Chief in those times.
Shooter is a very skilled editor, and a very good writer in his own right, altough his authoritary style made a lot of enemies at the time.
Remember, Lotus 1-2-3 had a monopoly in the DOS world. MSFT begged them to develop it for Windows 1... it begged them to develop it for Windows 2...
Lotus went and developed 1-2-3 for OS/2
Not true... IBM and Microsoft both told everybody to develop for OS/2, as that was what the future held. That was when Lotus released 1-2-3/G, the OS/2 version.
When Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and it was a success, almost nobody had Windows versions for its products ready. Except Microsoft, who had improved versions of its office tools (including a new Word for Windows, where Word was only for DOS before) ready for Windows a few months later.
Again, developers were focusing on OS/2 because Microsoft told them to. The IBM/Microsoft schism only came later.
Re:PDF is to XML, as Acrobat is to XDocs
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If anything, XML will be the PDF-killer. Adobe trapped themselves into a corner when they devoted themselves to a proprietary file format instead of using XML. With everyone jumping on the XML bandwagon, no wonder Adobe's stockholders are getting nervous.
XML has the potential to be a PDF-killer, indeed. I can imagine some sort or archive where a XSL-FO layout has SVG images embedded, and maybe JPG files attached. It could grow to be very PDF-like.
However, you have to remember that Adobe has been working on PDF since before there was a XML to use. Adobe has recently celebrated ten years working on PDF; XML has only been standardized on 1998, or six years later.
Also, they have jumped on the XML bandwagon, as much as they could. They first did PGML, a sort of PDF-meets-XML. MS counterattacked with VML, and W3C standardized SVG taking ideas from both. And Adobe is now one of the biggest proponents of SVG.
I did! Eric the Unready was a great game, funny and engaging. In fact, all adventures by Legend were great, and I've played all I could grab... if you enjoyed Eric, search around for Superhero League of Hoboken, it's another great game in a similar vein.
I browsed the Legend website some time ago to see what they were cooking, and the site said they had turned into an Unreal mission pack developing house. Very, very sad to see it...
There already is a RealOne port to several Unix platforms, download here [real.com]
Look closer... if you go all the way through the registration, you'll see what is being offered is actually Real Player 8, the last version released before RealOne.
Since Mach can have multiple personalities, could you create and run a Linux personality and a BSD personality at the same time?
Yes, it would be possible. In fact, Modern Operating Systems (great reference book by Tanenbaum) mentions the possibility of running a MS-DOS personality together with the BSD personality on top of Mach.
Indeed, the first Linux version to run on Macs, MkLinux, was actually a version of Linux adapted to be hosted on top of Mach... a "Linux personality", so to speak. The now usual monolithic PowerPC Linux came later.
Of course, running these two different personalities side-by-side would entail very careful resource management, and would probably not be very practical.
This column has a lot of bias for CDMA, which is understandable, as the author has worked for Qualcomm. However, one of his points is basically FUD: the mention that Brazil has chosen GSM because of bribery.
Brazil has started deploying GSM networks only this year. Previously, cellular companies used AMPS, which was later migrated to TDMA and CDMA, in different parts of the country. GSM was chosen as a new standard because it was the easiest upgrade path for TDMA, which was the largest installed base.
For the public, GSM phones are selling like hotcakes here for one simple reason: the SIM card (or "personality chip", like it's called in the article) inhibits stealing service over the air. In Brazil, cell phone cloning is a widespread problem, and criminals actively monitor CDMA frequencies to grab handset codes to steal (certain regions are known as a hotbed of cloning, and people are advised to NOT turn on their phone when passing through, as the likelihood of being cloned is very high). This is not possible with GSM, as this depends on a key on the card.
So, GSM is selling now, but it's not the entrenched standard, rather the upstart. And it's selling because it provides something that people in Brazil want, not because of bribery of the government, like the article alludes to.
Disclaimer: I work for a GSM cellullar company in Brazil.
Java already does what you are asking for. Today it happens when you run a program in most modern jvms. Even the IE JVM compiles your class file to native code (JIT from symantec).
I know Java does that. I've run gcj, Supercede (an old Asymetrix IDE) and the experimental native compiler from IBM (later rolled up into Visual Age Enterprise), and they all produce native executables.
My point is that Microsoft seems to want that flexibility in deployment for their products... So they can (for example) do one release of Money.NET (or whatever, just an example) without having to place multiple executables on the CD for Pentium, Itanium and Opteron. They did it before with NT 3.x... I remember 3.5.1 having i386, ppc, mips and alpha directories on the install CD.
ARM has an extension for their chips that allows them to run many (not all) java bytecodes as native instructions.
Really? That's very cool! I didn't know that... There must be some really good JVMs using these shortcuts.
And since it only runs on Windows, hence x86, I need to produce bytecode why?
We've already heard about Windows CE.NET, which runs on ARM. MS has released a "preview" of a 64-bit version of Windows for Itanium, and it is making noises about a new version optimzed for the AMD Opteron.
I believe MS intends to eventually produce one deliverable (the CLR bytecode assembly) which will be compiled into native code on the ARM, x86, Itanium and Opteron, with different optimizations for each.
Also, one of the concepts I like about the CLR is the possibility of optimizing for your platform at the last possible moment. Imagine having different JIT compilers for Pentium III, Pentium IV and the Athlon, producing a different executable depending on your machine. I doubt it will happen, though.
yeah minidisc is big everywhere except the US, where portable mp3 players won out. pity really.
Not really. At least in Brazil, only a very small minority of audiophiles is interested in MDs. Most music stores do not carry them, and those that do have a very small selection.
That makes three of us. I borrowed the entire series (in VHS tapes) from a friend, and I was just... bored. I stopped watching after the first few episodes, and returned the tapes.
I still can't understand why anime fans keep recommending Evangelion to people who don't know anime. Watching it will only freak them out, and turn them off anime forever.
A much better intro to anime is Cowboy Bebop. Or most Miyazaki movies... especially Princess Mononoke or Totoro.
(Another reason to hate Evangelion: from what my big otaku friends tell me, Cowboy Bebop's season was cut short on Japan because of a backlash against violent cartoons... caused by Evangelion)
According to the Ebert review linked on the parent:
Written by Mary Wolfman, Gene Colan and David S. Goyer.
Nice to see that they gave Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, the original creators of the comic book Blade, co-writer credit.
However, I don't think Marv will like being called "Mary"... I hope the newspaper editor was responsible for this mistake, not Ebert or the producers
Microsoft's removal of the ability to boot into DOS mode in ME is a side effect of moving to the NT OS Loader for booting Win9x, rather than using DOS to boot Win9x.
Absolute nonsense; the only difference between WinMe and Win98 during boot was that WinMe ignored the old config.sys/autoexec.bat files, and that command.com checks to see if it's under Windows, refusing to run in DOS mode.
There's nothing not even similar to NT's boot process on WinMe. Just looking at the files, NT uses the NTLDR/NTDETECT.COM pair, and Win98/Me uses the ancient IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS(now a INI-like config) pair.
All they did was disable loading of 16-bit drivers and the ability to sidestep the GUI, in order to "improve stability and make the boot process faster", according to them.
IIRC, the Sound Blaster percursor was called Game Blaster (what's it with Creative and Blaster?)
I remember at the time, the SB was like 3 boards in one: The Adlib, the GameBlaster, and the new one with the DAC. They were all different, unrelated chips.
I personally don't have a problem with the Face Scanning system. If they want to surgically remove wanted criminals from the streets, let 'em. They'll walk right past me. And please, people, this was a *human* who misidentified the man, not the system.
You say they'll walk right past you. I hope you don't plan on using any circumvention devices, such as the DeCSS. On this society, many acts can be considered crimes. Are you really sure you never committed any of them?
There is a great loss in freedom caused by Face Scanning tech, the DMCA and similar efforts. And it's sad that the general public does not realize that.
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Both Eclipse and Derby are the result of previous shopping sprees by IBM.
Eclipse was developed by the IBM Ottawa Software Lab. This lab started life as OTI, a company which developed Smalltalk technology, that IBM bought in 1996.
Derby is the open-source version of the Cloudscape DB. Cloudscape was a Java DB company which was acquired by Informix in 1999, which was in turn acquired by IBM in 2005.
The main contributors to this project have been Objective C supporters for a long time, and it shows! Looking at the tree on the Build It section of the site, the server depends on libFoundation and some GNUstep libraries.
I'm glad to see Objective C being put to good use outside of Mac OS X user interfaces... It's a good language, and it deserves better. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised... the sponsors, SKYRiX, have contributed a lot of good code for the free software ObjC community.
I hope this encourages more people to learn Objective C...
This is the second time I've seen the accusation of GSM bribing govt. officials in Brazil. Could you care to provide some reference for this? I live in Brazil, and I only hear about this happening from CDMA supporters overseas.
As for legal action, I can't see this pattern of GSM fighting CDMA here: all telecom companies in Brazil sue their competitors all the time. In fact, the CDMA providers sued the GSM providers first, to prevent them from starting operations.
There are only two countries that use CDMA - America and Koria.
Well, I live in Brazil, and my mobile phone uses CDMA; and I'm told there are CDMA networks in other countries in South America.
However, your points stand, as global roaming for CDMA phones is pitiful indeed, especially compared to GSM. And one thing that irritates me is how many features GSM phones have that CDMA phones don't even dream of having...
Amanda is a great package! However, it's only a backup manager; it still needs dump and tar (and uses them automatically) to generate the backups before sending them to tape or the holding disk.
When I set up an Amanda environment a few jobs back, the place had Linux and FreeBSD servers; the FreeBSD servers used dump, and the Linux servers used tar, and it all worked like charm. However, the Linux backups were a lot slower, because of tar; if I had to do it again, I'd probably use SGI xfs on the Linux servers, as it has xfsdump, a working version of dump.
I never could get into Lupin. I always felt that I was outside of its target audience. Cowboy Bebop is a better series anyway. See you space cowboy...
I love both series... in fact, my first reaction to Cowboy Bebop was "Cool! Lupin in space!" as the main characters and dynamics among them are very similar:
Lupin - Spike - protagonist
Jigen - Jet Black - protagonist's friend and helper
Fujiko - Faye Valentine - beautiful woman that is around the protagonists, but has her own agenda.
Lupin was made in the late '60s/early '70s, and anime has evolved a lot since them. But we must acknowledge its influence in what came later... Especially on our space cowboys, where it's quite visible.
The big deal is that this is made by the official Sega licensee in Brazil. It's anything but a pirate console.
Now that's a troll if I ever seen one! Lula, the Brazilian president elect has made deals with several parties to support his government, most of them as far from communism or socialism as they can be. Some were even considered right-wing!
Some of his biggest suppporters now have been in positions of power in Brazil since the military dictatorship ('64-'85)... I seriously doubt they'll let him change things around much. Lula had socialist ideas years ago, but now he's much more of a social democrat.
Also, since he won't take over until January, I don't think it's fair to blame him for our current problems... let's wait a bit for that.
And we're free to play whatever we want, thank you very much. However, keep this in mind: I'm an Computer Engineer with 5 years of experience, and an X-Box or a PS2 costs here close to half my monthly income. As much as I'd love to play Crazy Taxi III (I'm a big Sega fan), I do have a ton of other priorities... like rent and groceries.
For the record, I did not vote for Lula on the election. I supported Ciro Gomes, the candidate of the PPS... ten years ago this was the Brazilian Communist Party, but they have since come a lot closer to the center. I didn't think Lula was the best candidate, but I expect him to be a good president.
I've observed that most Americans are very right-wing, and they don't have a lot of grays in their view: you're either a conservative, or a commie pinko bastard (actually, some liberal Americans would probably be considered very conservative elsewhere). In Brazil, a lot of people skew to the left politically (probably the majority nowadays), but communists and socialists are few and far between. There's a lot of shades on liberal politics, but some people seem to be blinded to it.
Does anybody know if this driver supports the video input/output features of my All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV? I'd love to have xawtv running on my screen, or to watch mplayer on the TV.
Or do I have to run the GATOS driver for that?
Those who read the Marvel comics in the 80's will be interested to know that one of the principals here is Jim Shooter, the Editor-in-Chief in those times.
Shooter is a very skilled editor, and a very good writer in his own right, altough his authoritary style made a lot of enemies at the time.
One can find more info and a biography here.
Remember, Lotus 1-2-3 had a monopoly in the DOS world. MSFT begged them to develop it for Windows 1... it begged them to develop it for Windows 2...
Lotus went and developed 1-2-3 for OS/2
Not true... IBM and Microsoft both told everybody to develop for OS/2, as that was what the future held. That was when Lotus released 1-2-3/G, the OS/2 version.
When Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and it was a success, almost nobody had Windows versions for its products ready. Except Microsoft, who had improved versions of its office tools (including a new Word for Windows, where Word was only for DOS before) ready for Windows a few months later.
Again, developers were focusing on OS/2 because Microsoft told them to. The IBM/Microsoft schism only came later.
If anything, XML will be the PDF-killer. Adobe trapped themselves into a corner when they devoted themselves to a proprietary file format instead of using XML. With everyone jumping on the XML bandwagon, no wonder Adobe's stockholders are getting nervous.
XML has the potential to be a PDF-killer, indeed. I can imagine some sort or archive where a XSL-FO layout has SVG images embedded, and maybe JPG files attached. It could grow to be very PDF-like.
However, you have to remember that Adobe has been working on PDF since before there was a XML to use. Adobe has recently celebrated ten years working on PDF; XML has only been standardized on 1998, or six years later.
Also, they have jumped on the XML bandwagon, as much as they could. They first did PGML, a sort of PDF-meets-XML. MS counterattacked with VML, and W3C standardized SVG taking ideas from both. And Adobe is now one of the biggest proponents of SVG.
I did! Eric the Unready was a great game, funny and engaging. In fact, all adventures by Legend were great, and I've played all I could grab... if you enjoyed Eric, search around for Superhero League of Hoboken, it's another great game in a similar vein.
I browsed the Legend website some time ago to see what they were cooking, and the site said they had turned into an Unreal mission pack developing house. Very, very sad to see it...
Look closer... if you go all the way through the registration, you'll see what is being offered is actually Real Player 8, the last version released before RealOne.
Yes, it would be possible. In fact, Modern Operating Systems (great reference book by Tanenbaum) mentions the possibility of running a MS-DOS personality together with the BSD personality on top of Mach.
Indeed, the first Linux version to run on Macs, MkLinux, was actually a version of Linux adapted to be hosted on top of Mach... a "Linux personality", so to speak. The now usual monolithic PowerPC Linux came later.
Of course, running these two different personalities side-by-side would entail very careful resource management, and would probably not be very practical.
This column has a lot of bias for CDMA, which is understandable, as the author has worked for Qualcomm. However, one of his points is basically FUD: the mention that Brazil has chosen GSM because of bribery.
Brazil has started deploying GSM networks only this year. Previously, cellular companies used AMPS, which was later migrated to TDMA and CDMA, in different parts of the country. GSM was chosen as a new standard because it was the easiest upgrade path for TDMA, which was the largest installed base.
For the public, GSM phones are selling like hotcakes here for one simple reason: the SIM card (or "personality chip", like it's called in the article) inhibits stealing service over the air. In Brazil, cell phone cloning is a widespread problem, and criminals actively monitor CDMA frequencies to grab handset codes to steal (certain regions are known as a hotbed of cloning, and people are advised to NOT turn on their phone when passing through, as the likelihood of being cloned is very high). This is not possible with GSM, as this depends on a key on the card.
So, GSM is selling now, but it's not the entrenched standard, rather the upstart. And it's selling because it provides something that people in Brazil want, not because of bribery of the government, like the article alludes to.
Disclaimer: I work for a GSM cellullar company in Brazil.
Java already does what you are asking for. Today it happens when you run a program in most modern jvms. Even the IE JVM compiles your class file to native code (JIT from symantec).
I know Java does that. I've run gcj, Supercede (an old Asymetrix IDE) and the experimental native compiler from IBM (later rolled up into Visual Age Enterprise), and they all produce native executables.
My point is that Microsoft seems to want that flexibility in deployment for their products... So they can (for example) do one release of Money.NET (or whatever, just an example) without having to place multiple executables on the CD for Pentium, Itanium and Opteron. They did it before with NT 3.x... I remember 3.5.1 having i386, ppc, mips and alpha directories on the install CD.
ARM has an extension for their chips that allows them to run many (not all) java bytecodes as native instructions.
Really? That's very cool! I didn't know that... There must be some really good JVMs using these shortcuts.
The future is now!
Agreed.
And since it only runs on Windows, hence x86, I need to produce bytecode why?
We've already heard about Windows CE.NET, which runs on ARM. MS has released a "preview" of a 64-bit version of Windows for Itanium, and it is making noises about a new version optimzed for the AMD Opteron.
I believe MS intends to eventually produce one deliverable (the CLR bytecode assembly) which will be compiled into native code on the ARM, x86, Itanium and Opteron, with different optimizations for each.
Also, one of the concepts I like about the CLR is the possibility of optimizing for your platform at the last possible moment. Imagine having different JIT compilers for Pentium III, Pentium IV and the Athlon, producing a different executable depending on your machine. I doubt it will happen, though.
yeah minidisc is big everywhere except the US, where portable mp3 players won out. pity really.
Not really. At least in Brazil, only a very small minority of audiophiles is interested in MDs. Most music stores do not carry them, and those that do have a very small selection.
Hear, hear! That's probably the best description of Evangelion I've ever heard!
That makes three of us. I borrowed the entire series (in VHS tapes) from a friend, and I was just... bored. I stopped watching after the first few episodes, and returned the tapes.
I still can't understand why anime fans keep recommending Evangelion to people who don't know anime. Watching it will only freak them out, and turn them off anime forever.
A much better intro to anime is Cowboy Bebop. Or most Miyazaki movies... especially Princess Mononoke or Totoro.
(Another reason to hate Evangelion: from what my big otaku friends tell me, Cowboy Bebop's season was cut short on Japan because of a backlash against violent cartoons... caused by Evangelion)
Written by Mary Wolfman, Gene Colan and David S. Goyer.
Nice to see that they gave Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, the original creators of the comic book Blade, co-writer credit.
However, I don't think Marv will like being called "Mary"... I hope the newspaper editor was responsible for this mistake, not Ebert or the producers
Absolute nonsense; the only difference between WinMe and Win98 during boot was that WinMe ignored the old config.sys/autoexec.bat files, and that command.com checks to see if it's under Windows, refusing to run in DOS mode.
There's nothing not even similar to NT's boot process on WinMe. Just looking at the files, NT uses the NTLDR/NTDETECT.COM pair, and Win98/Me uses the ancient IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS(now a INI-like config) pair.
All they did was disable loading of 16-bit drivers and the ability to sidestep the GUI, in order to "improve stability and make the boot process faster", according to them.
IIRC, the Sound Blaster percursor was called Game Blaster (what's it with Creative and Blaster?)
I remember at the time, the SB was like 3 boards in one: The Adlib, the GameBlaster, and the new one with the DAC. They were all different, unrelated chips.
You say they'll walk right past you. I hope you don't plan on using any circumvention devices, such as the DeCSS. On this society, many acts can be considered crimes. Are you really sure you never committed any of them?
There is a great loss in freedom caused by Face Scanning tech, the DMCA and similar efforts. And it's sad that the general public does not realize that.