In Java, you can't unload code/type from the classpath (core classes you had when you started java) but if the class comes from a different classloader (created at runtime), you can do pretty much what you want... if you own the classloader...
The only limitation is that the class must not be on the classpath (for security reason). This is also how you can have the same class but with different version on the same VM.
See : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ ClassLoader.html
Linux used TSS to do task switching in older version like 2.2. The switch to software has been made because :
* you can check the data between task switching (E.G. segmentation registers), which cannot be done with far jmp
* the time to switch task is about the same, but I it easier to optimize software than hardware...
So here ya go. Mplayer is just a media player. It opens every media you can think of - mplayer [file] and it just works. Period. Set it up to be the default media player in your pretty GUI file manager and you'll never think about it again.
amen !
I have configured mplayer as the default player on nautilus and everything is F A S T ! and it reads about everything. Nautilus will always be a better file browser than any open dialog of any program since everything is dynamic. mplayer reads avi while they are downloading... not the microsoft one.
As the key mapping, well, the scroll button on the mouse will sroll the movie; ESC and close button will close the movie; space bar start/stop the movie. It's complicated ? 'The movie steches when you resize the windows' : then why did you resize the window anyway ????
and kudo to the mplayer team, to my opinion, they have done a great job!
Now if only they would reduce the memory footprint of things like Swing.
actually, IBM has done something else, they have build SWT (standard window toolkit) and the footprint compaired to swing is by far better. Unlike swing, the widget are native (msw, gtk2, motif, cocoa) and the graphic allocations are not handled by the garbage collector. And off course everything is opensource. So your logic is in pure java and your lowlevel GUI is handled by the OS. Fair trade to me.
Check out eclipse.org, the development platform is built on swt.
Linux yould be a great idea for ATM since most of these machines run on Pentium. But the problem is XFS (not the SGI filesystem), the protocol to talk to ATM devices. Right now, only Windows is supported and the update of jxfs (the java implementation) is very slow...
No big ATM providers seems to care about porting XFS to linux.
This is sad. But if XFS is supported, more institution will think twice on installing windows...
You might need a certificate signed by a well known CA for your connections from the internet, but for all your backend server you can create your own CA. This will enable you to use a full strenght 1024/128 bit sll for nothing. There is a project called tinyca which enables you to create and signed certificates with your inhouse CA. So you create a CA for your company and add the CA to all your backend server. Once this is done, any certificate signed by your CA will be valid and fully secured.
I have tested it for Apache and Weblogic and Websphere and they work very well.
What linux needs for audio is a standard API. This is problem today, there is 2 reference implementation of audio (OSS/Alsa) and alot of plugins architectures. OSS is slowly dying since the kernel will be moving to alsa > 2.4, and alsa is in a beta stage today. To any major audio software maker like native-instruments this is a major show stopper. Until this is resolved nobody will want to write a large audio application.
What I would like to see is a implementation of ASIO and VST to linux. That yould help alot since the protocol is already tune for audio. And porting any original program like cubase or reaktor would be alot more easier. Same thing for VST which is already a standard plugin interface, and the IRIX part is already done...
To what I have heard yes, one of the members actually lived in Canada in is youth and he has been facinated with the film of the NFB... I find that some films of the NFB goes very well with this music.
If you are coding while listening to electronic music, Autechre is a must. Have good coffee and put LP5 or Envane from Autechre and you will find yourself coding 100 lines a minutes. Autechre and pure C goes very well together : cold but very powerful. Fact is, my girlfriend ask me if it was difficult to code; and she got interested because of the music !
In a more geekie manner; there is Kraftwerk. Difficult to grasp, very cold at first but if you dig a little bit into it, you will find it pretty warm. Personnaly, I find the album Computer World a excellent start, and if you code, you will find the lyrics pretty funny like : It's more fun to compute or I program my home computer, Beam my self into the future. It's kind of cool to listen to that and making a modification in a Makefile... Very powerful album. I find it kind of cool of acting like a robot and listening to kraftwerk. Everything at it's right place.
If you are more in a texture mode, check out Board of Canada. You can think of a weird 8mm film of the '70 put into music. Great for Cobol and Mainframe programming.
If your are on Visual Basic and you are frustrated, you can put Neu !/Neu ! 2. It's rock from the '70, but the beat is sooo techno... still ahead of it's time... It has influence so many artists.
In something more funky, check Mouse On Mars. It's very noisy, but still have the genius to put the melody into it. The music to listen with Python or Perl.
As for the documentation, Fennesz [Endless Summer] is great ambiant music. Acoustic guitar put into small repeated samples. So beautiful that you will forget that you are making documentation. This is the next logical step to Eno.
To learn more about electronic music, the The Wire is a excellent source...
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In Java, you can't unload code/type from the classpath (core classes you had when you started java) but if the class comes from a different classloader (created at runtime), you can do pretty much what you want... if you own the classloader...
/ ClassLoader.html
The only limitation is that the class must not be on the classpath (for security reason). This is also how you can have the same class but with different version on the same VM.
See : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang
Linux used TSS to do task switching in older version like 2.2. The switch to software has been made because : * you can check the data between task switching (E.G. segmentation registers), which cannot be done with far jmp * the time to switch task is about the same, but I it easier to optimize software than hardware...
How much easier could it get?
well, you need to be root to do that.
amen !
I have configured mplayer as the default player on nautilus and everything is F A S T ! and it reads about everything. Nautilus will always be a better file browser than any open dialog of any program since everything is dynamic. mplayer reads avi while they are downloading... not the microsoft one.
As the key mapping, well, the scroll button on the mouse will sroll the movie; ESC and close button will close the movie; space bar start/stop the movie. It's complicated ? 'The movie steches when you resize the windows' : then why did you resize the window anyway ????
and kudo to the mplayer team, to my opinion, they have done a great job!
Linux yould be a great idea for ATM since most of these machines run on Pentium. But the problem is XFS (not the SGI filesystem), the protocol to talk to ATM devices. Right now, only Windows is supported and the update of jxfs (the java implementation) is very slow... No big ATM providers seems to care about porting XFS to linux. This is sad. But if XFS is supported, more institution will think twice on installing windows...
You might need a certificate signed by a well known CA for your connections from the internet, but for all your backend server you can create your own CA. This will enable you to use a full strenght 1024/128 bit sll for nothing. There is a project called tinyca which enables you to create and signed certificates with your inhouse CA. So you create a CA for your company and add the CA to all your backend server. Once this is done, any certificate signed by your CA will be valid and fully secured.
I have tested it for Apache and Weblogic and Websphere and they work very well.
What I would like to see is a implementation of ASIO and VST to linux. That yould help alot since the protocol is already tune for audio. And porting any original program like cubase or reaktor would be alot more easier. Same thing for VST which is already a standard plugin interface, and the IRIX part is already done...
To what I have heard yes, one of the members actually lived in Canada in is youth and he has been facinated with the film of the NFB... I find that some films of the NFB goes very well with this music.
In a more geekie manner; there is Kraftwerk. Difficult to grasp, very cold at first but if you dig a little bit into it, you will find it pretty warm. Personnaly, I find the album Computer World a excellent start, and if you code, you will find the lyrics pretty funny like : It's more fun to compute or I program my home computer, Beam my self into the future. It's kind of cool to listen to that and making a modification in a Makefile ... Very powerful album. I find it kind of cool of acting like a robot and listening to kraftwerk. Everything at it's right place.
If you are more in a texture mode, check out Board of Canada. You can think of a weird 8mm film of the '70 put into music. Great for Cobol and Mainframe programming.
If your are on Visual Basic and you are frustrated, you can put Neu !/Neu ! 2. It's rock from the '70, but the beat is sooo techno... still ahead of it's time... It has influence so many artists.
In something more funky, check Mouse On Mars. It's very noisy, but still have the genius to put the melody into it. The music to listen with Python or Perl.
As for the documentation, Fennesz [Endless Summer] is great ambiant music. Acoustic guitar put into small repeated samples. So beautiful that you will forget that you are making documentation. This is the next logical step to Eno.
To learn more about electronic music, the The Wire is a excellent source...