Sun BloggersWelcome to Blogs.sun.com! This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.ISMIR 2008 Mirex panel- September 17, 2008 Stephen Downie gave an overview of MIREX and described the special challenges and issues for this year. He then opened it up to a general discussion. Some comments Doug Eck: Make data available, make it easier for machine learning types to participate Brian, Daniel M. - can weshould we use more social data in the evaluations Some discussion about using virtualization technology to allow the participants to login and run their submissions. Geoffry - repeats the suggestion for making subsets.http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/ismir_2008_mirex_panel Sveiki Riga!- September 17, 2008 With all the excitement for my first trip to Europe, along with my colleagues- Nidhi, Nirbhay and Satya I took an early morning flight of Lufthansa airlines from Bangalore to Frankfurt, from where we were to take a connecting flight to Riga. The interior of the Boeing seemed to be too cramped up. We had to sit seperately from each other- due to late check-in and that 2 of us got non-reclinable seats didn't help the matter. However, the tired body soon started taking over all of this and with...http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/sveiki_riga New Dogs, New Tricks Thinking About Sun SPARC Enterprise Server Configuration- September 17, 2008 James Hsieh, OPL Engineering In my many years of working with Sun equipment (I started off with an old Motorola-based Sun 250 server), each new generation of systems never ceases to impress with how much more functionality we can cram into ever smaller and smaller packages. It's not just speed and performance (though that certainly is important) it's things like domaining, fault management, and administration of system resources.Take for example Sun's landmark E10k server,...http://blogs.sun.com/blueprints/entry/new_dogs_new_tricks_thinking News From Sun Campus Ambassadors Worldwide- September 17, 2008 Sun campus ambassadors have been busy organizing open-source events as part of this year's Software Freedom Day, to be held in many cities on or about September 20. Take a look at the locations where you can join Sun communities in celebrating the open-source movement with talks, meet-ups, and installfests. Follow along as campus ambassadors describe the preparations and success stories on their blogs. As always, campus ambassadors are busy working with technologies and sharing what they...http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/entry/news_from_sun_campus_ambassadors20 Sexism!- September 17, 2008 Some of you may have seen Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin on SNL this past weekend. Now, most politicians, upon being mocked by SNL, would laugh and let it go. But John McCain's campaign adviser has now made the rounds to explain that Tina Fey was being sexist. That's right - When one woman makes fun of another woman on a show known for making fun of politicians, McCain thinks it's sexism. Congratulations, Senator McCain. Your campaign has officially jumped the shark.http://blogs.sun.com/clevertitle/entry/sexism Web 2.0 Expo NY- September 17, 2008 Hello from the demo floor of the Web 2.0 Expo in New York It has been a lot of fun getting to meet with a lot of Web 2.0 companies. It blows my mind to just see how much this market has matured. If you are at the Web 2.0 Expo NY please stop at the Sun booth. Tell them Angelo sent you and get a nice OpenSolaris cap or T-shirt. Come by my BOF on Observing the Web 2.0 Application in Production September 91808 Thursday 7 PM at "Boardroom C-Hudson Hotel". We will have an interactive...http://blogs.sun.com/angelo/entry/from_webn_2_0_expo links for 2008-09-17- September 17, 2008 Squeezebox Boom All-in-one Network Music Player: Plug it in. Turn it on. Rock the house. Looks cool - I&039;ve been a happy SliMP3 user for years. (tags: gadgets audio squeezebox boom slimdevices logitech)http://blogs.sun.com/superpat/entry/links_for_2008_09_17 Norway joins a select club- September 17, 2008 Headline news in Norway today concerns the country's first major public sector data breach. Apparently eight major newspapers were sent tax information by the Tax Authority (this information is, I'm told, intended to be in the public domain) - but accidentally included was a full list of Norwegian taxpayers' National Identity Numbers (personnumrene). The Norwegian NI Number happens to incorporate the citizen's gender and date of birth. According to the story on the Dagbladet website, the...http://blogs.sun.com/racingsnake/entry/norway_joins_a_select_club Viral Marketing 2.0, Or, I HEART Jonah Peretti- September 17, 2008 The sessions just keep getting better. Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post presented Viral Marketing 2.0 this morning. Loved it. From the Bored at Work Network (BWN) to the Power of the Mullet, this session rocked my world. Let's break it down, shall weThe Bored at Work Network is you, me, our friends, our colleagues. They are the people who check and update Twitter, check into Facebook, read up on their personal email while at work. We all do it. And if you say you don't you're...http://blogs.sun.com/sdnblog/entry/viral_marketing_2_0_or Java CAPS Tip : NetBeans 6.1 JMS Monitoring based on the Management API- September 17, 2008 Following on from my blog entry "Building a JMS Browser Monitoring Management Plug-in Module for NetBeans" I was asked if this was built using the Java CAPS Management API. The previous blog entry was actually built around the Java CAPS 6 stcqueueviewer API and as such did not have access to all the new functionality within the Management API. Therefore I decided to copy the existing project and modify the core JMS Implementation Classes to work with the Management API and will quickly...http://blogs.sun.com/toxophily/entry/java_caps_tip_netbeans_6 |