Planet SunPlanet Sun - http://planetsun.org/Alec Muffett: 1975 Unix flaw fixed- July 14, 2008 1975 Unix flaw fixed - The INQUIRER A BUG IN UNIX that has been in existence since 1975 has finally been fixed. The bug in an AT&T version of Unix, which was undiscovered until recently, has been with us ever since the Whos Tommy flick premiered in London, the first microcomputer the Altair 8800 hit the shops, and three people were found guilty in the Watergate cover-up It was spotted by OpenBSD developer Otto Moerbeek and affected the YACC parser generator. This followed a discovery of a...http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/2540 Jim Grisanzio: China: Building, Building, Building- July 14, 2008 In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China: "If Westerners feel dazed and confused upon exiting the plane at the new international airport terminal here, its understandable. Its not just the grandeur of the space. Its the inescapable feeling that youre passing through a portal to another world, one whose fierce embrace of change has left Western nations in the dust." -- New York Times That's from the first paragraph of the Times article on architectural changes in China. The bit...http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/china_building_building_building Dave Levy: Zoo Station- July 14, 2008 I and some french colleagues caught the S-Bahn from Zoo Station to Fredriechstrasse Station, and took in the views of the Reichstag building and Bundekanzleramt. We had a beer at Die Deponie nr 3, an exclellent and authentic beer shop (excellent service, thank you) then walked down to Potsdammer Platz via the Brandenburger Tor, the Tiergarten and the Monument to the Dead Jews. tags: travel berlin railway zoostationhttp://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy/entry/zoo_station Jim Grisanzio: Jam- July 14, 2008 This guy sounded very cool ...http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/jam HPC: Video: Sun HPC Software - Clustering Made Easy- July 14, 2008 In this video, Sun's Art Beckman and Makia Minich present on Sun's HPC software stacks for OpenSolaris and Linux. Recorded at Sun's HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany on June 2008. Download PDFhttp://blogs.sun.com/HPC/entry/video_sun_hpc_software_clustering Alec Muffett: Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist, say report- July 14, 2008 Via several friends: its a couple of days old, but: Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist, say report Ian has a phrase for this sort of nonsense: Oh, bloody hellllllllllllll Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist, say report is syndicated from dropsafe. Share Thishttp://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/2539 GullFOSS: Switching to Java 1.5 ... and than to OpenJDK :-)- July 14, 2008 I just recently started a discussion on jdktools.openoffice.org regarding the OOo Java baseline. Background was the open sourcing of Java to the OpenJDK project, and OpenJDK becoming fully functional, please see my other posting for some details. There are two points I would like to discuss respectively to announce here, in case nobody objects. Both points are based on an overview listing the OOo platforms and the used Javas respectively the availability of OpenJDK, please see here for the...http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/switching_to_java_1_5 Charles Ditzel: Structure'08 : The Invisible Hand of Web Computing (the Cloud and more)- July 14, 2008 Greg Papadopoulos (Sun's CTO) gave a really nice presentation at Structure'08 on a number of inter-related topics on web computing, the cloud, the economics and more. Note there are other interesting talks there as well that have been made available.http://cld.blog-city.com/structure08__the_invisible_hand_of_web_computing_the_clou.htm Simon Phipps: links for 2008-07-14- July 14, 2008 Sun To Shed Up To 2,500 Jobs In Strategic Move Interesting perspective sees this as an endorsement and continuation of the open source strategy - very different view from how the instant-thrill section of the media covered it. (tags: Sun OpenSource Employment Strategy) Debian Overview of openjdk-6 source package Dalibor breaks the news that OpenJDK6 (aka Java SE) is now heading squarely for Debian main. That decision to use the GPL is paying off. Absolutely awesome, fantastic...http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/links_for_2008_07_14 Charles Ditzel: VisualVM 1.0 : All-Purpose, Extensible, Troubleshooting Tool + Plugins- July 14, 2008 What a killer tool - VisualVM 1.0 is out and available. It provides a powerful, open-source, extensible troubleshooting tool for local and remote activities. More....http://cld.blog-city.com/visualvm_10__allpurpose_extensible_troubleshooting_tool.htm |