d2rdiego's weblogthe matrix trilogy on hd dvd- May 23, 2007 from the shameless-consumer-hat-on dept The Matrix Revolutions aside (I still think my own matrix "abridged" script was better), the trilogy still deserves a lot of credit for breaking ground in a number of ways for the mainstream of cinema (since most of what makes the movies special had already been invented one way or another, particularly in Anime), and The Matrix remains a pretty good movie, flaws and all. I even have a soft spot for the other two, if only because they have noisy,...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003416.html openfire and spark: cool stuff- May 21, 2007 Today I spent some time tinkering with Openfire and Spark, and they're both pretty cool. I've been using GAIM (ok, ok, Pidgin) at home on my PC but the last few days it decided to start crashing when connecting to Yahoo. Great. Back to Trillian, but, oh, wait, even though Trillian tickles me the fact that it looks like an app from 1992 drives me bananas. (Gaim ain't that great either). Is it so hard to spend a bit of time on look and feel Icons UI matters! Anyway. So Russ had mentioned...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003412.html ubuntu server 7.04's paltry default packages- May 21, 2007 There are some basic packages that the basic distro of Ubuntu Server (as of 'Feisty' 7.04) does not include. I was just documenting a bit the sequence of apt-get commands I used right after the install was done: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install ssh apt-get install lynx apt-get install links apt-get install vim apt-get install gcc apt-get install make apt-get install sun-java6-bin apt-get install sun-java6-jdk apt-get install subversion apt-get install smbclient apt-get install...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003411.html jpc: holy emulators batman!- May 17, 2007 JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. You can go to their site and run the applet demo, which runs FreeDOS and then lets you execute various classic PC-DOS games such as Lemmings or Prince of Persia. And it supports protected mode, so you can run Windows 95 and --gasp!-- Linux. Because it's an emulator and not simply a hypervisor, you can run it anywhere in which a Java 5 or higher JVM can run. Mindblowing. ps: in the same vein, check out this Browser...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003410.html javafx = applets 2.0- May 13, 2007 So after spending a bit of time looking at JavaFX my impression is that it's a great idea... but I question the need for yet another scripting language in the form of JavaFX Script. Java 6 implements JSR 223 and even includes scripting based on Rhino, i.e., Javascript. Now, Javascript has its flaws (and they are many) but it's a standard, so why not start there That aside, JavaFX strikes me as applets 2.0, or rather Applets Done Right. Or, As Right As Possible, given the JVM requirement....http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003407.html ning javaone slides- May 13, 2007 I just posted the JavaOne presentation and some notes over at the Ning Developer Blog. Check it out!http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003409.html at javaone tomorrow!- May 10, 2007 Martin, Brian and myself will be at JavaOne tomorrow presenting Building a Web Platform: Java Technology at Ning. We'll talk about the evolution of the Ning Platform over the last two and a half years and how Java and some specific design choices let us continually grow and expand the platform, replacing and upgrading infrastructure, without affecting users or developers. The session is TS-6039, in Esplanade 301, at 4:10 pm, so if you're around come say hello. I'll post the slides after...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003408.html 128-bit storage: are you high- May 5, 2007 As Reverend Lovejoy would say: "Short answer, Yes with an if.... long answer, No, with a but." Nevertheless: great article on ZFS and storage limits (theoretical and otherwise). Recommended!http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003405.html the remainder...- May 5, 2007 ... of an interview yesterday at Ning was this equation (click on the image to see a larger version). As Malcom Reynolds would say: "And that tickles me." :-) That is all.Comment on this entryhttp://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003404.html |