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New projects - New things to learn

blogs.sun.com - 1 hour 29 min ago
I recently was tasked with a new project -- to work on awareness and training around some technologies that help students learn the Java programming language. The projects are Alice.org, BlueJ, and Greenfoot. I've been spending several hours for the past few weeks trying to learn more about these technologies. I had fun using these tools to learn more about Java! I have learned to program a skater in Alice and worked on a maze in Greenfoot.  Students who use these tools find them fun as well!  Here's a blog entry from a college student who has been using Alice 3 in her programming classes.  I'm looking forward to learning more about these technologies and sharing them with others.

5 Years @ Sun

blogs.sun.com - 1 hour 44 min ago
5 years ago, Oct/8th/2003, I joined Sun China ERI, worked in Asian Globalization Center. It's really amazing time for me to stay at Sun and AGC. I love the open culture, awesome teammates and colleagues, comfortable and beautiful working environment, coffee and tea-times ...

It's a new start for me, I'm expecting my 10-years, 15-years, 20-years anniversaries

Note to Google: I Drink Too Much

blogs.sun.com - 1 hour 47 min ago

Dear Google,

Please help me. I'm prone to bouts of drunken foolishness. They usually end with me sending a string of ill-advised and highly embarrassing emails.

I feel good about sharing this with you, since you're already handling information about my health conditions, sexual preferences, and financial concerns.

Sincerely,
John Doe

1975 Elm Avenue
New York, NY 10041
Ph: 212-555-1278
SSN: 123-45-6789

Sound like a good idea? Then you're going to love Gmail's new feature.

*pt. X: the Window*

OSNews - 1 hour 48 min ago
This is the tenth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law, and more. The aim of this series is to explain these terms, learn something about their origins, and finally rate their importance in the field of usability and (graphical) user interface design. Fitting for this rounded number, part X will detail the window. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
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Worst Windows Flaws of the Past Decade

OSNews - 1 hour 48 min ago
InfoWorld pays tribute to the humble Windows bug -- ground zero for several of the most colossal security meltdowns IT has ever endured. From share-level password flaws, to Web server traversal vulnerabilities, to overflow after overflow, the past decade of Windows flaws and patches and exploits has given IT one hot cup of hell after another -- all while giving rise to entire industries built around protecting users from malware authors who themselves have matured their practices to juvenile pranks to moneymaking criminal enterprises. Microsoft has been noted as the fastest vendor to patch OS flaws, to be sure, but the hits keep on coming. Perhaps it is high time for another OS vulnerability scorecard.
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Knol debates: See both sides, get involved

GoogleBlog - 1 hour 48 min ago
As the election season builds to a climax, the candidates have been engaging in a number of debates. With all the excitement, we wanted to get involved, so we've started our own set of debates on our new tool Knol. The debates on Knol are meant to offer a variety of in-depth opinions from experts so you can really understand all sides of an issue.

Our first debate focuses on the economy. Economists from the Cato Institute and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have offered opening arguments on what should come next now that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is law. Take a look to see what they think -- but don't stop there. As with most articles in Knol, these are open to collaboration, so you can rate what you read, submit comments, write full responses (i.e. reviews),  or even suggest edits to the author by making changes right in the knol itself. These experts are using Knol because they want to collaborate with readers, and they are committed to updating the articles based on your input.

In addition, there's a forum where you can suggest additional topics that you'd like to see debated in our new tool Google Moderator.  As we prepare for the election, experts from leading think-tanks including Cato, EPI, the Heritage Foundation, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund will conduct similar debates on the issues you find the most important.

We hope these knols help inform your decision on election day, and we encourage you to voice your opinion.

Posted by Matt Ghering, Product Marketing Manager
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OpenSolaris Print Manager

blogs.sun.com - 1 hour 53 min ago

This is something I should have blogged about earlier, it is always very hard for me to do something that I have stopped doing for a little while and under time constraints. Better late than never...

The Phase II of the Presto project as detailed in section 4 of the paper had finally integrated into Solaris Nevada build 97 in mid August. A HUGE THANKS to Norm , Wendy, Calum for sticking in through phase I and II of the project. Though the greatest honors should be bestowed on Evan and Halton who resolved more than 90 bugs between them over the last few weeks before integration! Of course, they would be so great without all the bugs logged by Conny Cheng .

So what are the features in this release:
o A shinning brand new Print Manager which supports Auto Detection of local USB printer.
o It also auto-discover network printers when this service, svc:/network/device-discovery/printers:snmp is turned on
o Added queues are automatically reflected in the Print Manager Queue window.
o The Print Manager also provides a Printer Group view and a job view.
o The print system supported is LP, no CUPS yet (just to disappoint a few, sorry)

Details of the Printer Group is described in the paper above and also in my previous blog

Thanks to Juanita and Calum, we also integrated the Online Help into Nevada 99. Thanks go to Matt for dealing with the yelp required format. This has been truly a team worked project! It has been GREAT experience when there were times when I thought I would never see the end it

Yup, I Won!!!

blogs.sun.com - 1 hour 57 min ago


So we as CAs are taught so many things from Sun folks .I am yet to see people more humble than them!! (If they even exist)
.Now that I was (And still am) doing my Internship as a CA I got an opportunity to work with
Moinak Gosh (The architect of Belenix) over the last Summer.

The project aimed at providing a "RAM based boot for Belenix0.7" . The complete details can be found a few posts down.!
But when the "Opensource Community Innovation awards" was announced, it was like a hot cake  thats was too good to let go.And so I sent my works on Belenix .
And what do you ,I WON!!                                                                                                                        The Winning contest entries are announced here . (perhaps it was the best day yet)
A brief Intro of all the Award recipients are here.

PS: Well that day was beyond belief .What followed in the evening and all through the night was perhaps "pure delight of Insanity" (If you know what i mean ) 
A hearty Thanks to everybody who helped me!

SUN Rocks!!!!!

OpenSocial 0.9 Input

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 16 min ago

Do you have input to improve OpenSocial? If so, you're in luck. Dan Peterson sent out a call to start the ball rolling on the OpenSocial v0.9 Specification. For newbies he discusses the specification process. He also gives a recap of likely changes in v0.9.

He's looking to gather all ideas by this Friday (October 10th). So if you've been itching for a feature, now is the time to send your ideas in!

Final Review for GlassFish v3 Prelude Documentation Starts Now

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 25 min ago

The final drafts of the GlassFish v3 Prelude documentation are available now from the GlassFishDocumentation Comments Wiki. For a list of documents to review, consult the section Guides and Tutorials - Ready for Review on the wiki page.

As the review is starting a day late, the deadline for comments is now end of day Monday, 13 October 2008.

Members of the GlassFish documentation team have asked subject matter experts individually to review sections of the documentation that apply to their area of expertise.

If you have been asked by a member of the GlassFish documentation team to review a particular section of the documentation, or are interested in the GlassFish v3 Prelude documentation, please set aside some time this week to review the documentation. The quality of your reviews has a major effect on the overall quality of the documentation.

Thank you

Paul Davies,
GlassFish Documentation Team

Abhishek "abby87" Rane: Amarok 2 beta in Technicolor !

Fedora People - 2 hours 30 min ago

Amarok2 now supports the KDE plasma engine and whenever one changes the system color scheme changes the color of the application changes.You can change the color scheme by

System Settings > Appearance > Colors

Posted in Amarok, Beta, linux, Screenshot   Tagged: amarok2, Beta, screenshots   
Categories: Fedora/RedHat

セミナー「川口耕介、メトロを語る」残り20席です

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 42 min ago

ご本人が既に告知済みですが、10月14日(火)に「川口耕介、メトロを語る」と題して Project Metro のセミナーを実施します。

月に一度の Java Hot Topics セミナーの特別編です。

2 時間で学ぶ今月の Java ホットトピック (10月特別号) :川口耕介、メトロを語る

川口耕介、メトロを語る

と言っても地下鉄の話ではありません。GlassFish コミュニティで活躍中の 川口耕介が今が旬のフレームワーク Metro を連れて日本にやってきました。 最初はシンプルなサービスから始めて、高度なセキュリティやトランザク ション、.NET 連携といった機能は必要に応じて追加、という Metro の特徴 をアーキテクト自らがデモを交えて紹介します。Web サービスは難しそう、 使いどころがわからない、とお悩みの皆さまはもちろん、バリバリの Web サービスエンジニアの方も奮ってご参加ください。

Project Metro の「コアのアーキテクチャの設計と実装を担当していた」という川口さんに直接質問をぶつけてみたい方、参加登録お待ちしております。

早くも残り 20 席です!

Blogs, Bloggers & Blogging

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 50 min ago

We hosted Word Camp New York in our offices on Sunday - Matt Mullenweg spoke about the "State of WordPress" and in a word, it's strong. That was clearly visible from the crowd in the offfice, we had nearly 140 people spend their day with us listening, talking, participating. I heard a lot of good things from how to make your blog more effective to video in blogs. I really enjoyed hearing about how WordPress is being used and meeting a lot of the participants.

Special thanks to Jonathan Dingman to getting this organized and Hal & the Divas for getting it going. The presentations and a video will be posted on the website as soon as they're available.

Provisioning With iSCSI and Solaris ZFS in 10 Minutes

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 52 min ago

This Sun BluePrints article describes how to quickly provision an iSCSI array with ZFS in both Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris environments. 

Can't wait...

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 56 min ago
...to play around with the new VirtualBox Version. In the next version hopefully it will be possible to use SATA disc images with a OpenSolaris client. Then I could test ZFS with several disc images...Useful? no - but fun. To play around with hotspares, delete disc images on the host, RAID-Z, RAID-Z2, test thumper disc configurations (which does not make sense I do not have to think about hot spots, where to position disc :-))

Jim Grisanzio: Taxation Without Representation

PlanetSolaris - 2 hours 58 min ago
Some absolutely devastating videos from David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office from 1998 to 2008. He comes right out with the taxation without representation bit in the first clip. I seem to remember a little revolution around that phrase, don't you? It was a while back. You know Obama, McCain, Palin, and Biden wouldn't last 30 seconds in a debate with this dude. Not 30 seconds. But he's not debating the pols, though. He's trying to press for change using every available tool he can find. And, sadly, he recognizes that politicians need "cover" to make any serious movement in reforming the financial system of the United States. Cover. I'm going to keep an eye on this guy. He seems, oh I don't know, several billion times more credible than any leader I've seen messing things up the last two decades in Washington.
Categories: Solaris

Taxation Without Representation

blogs.sun.com - 2 hours 58 min ago
Some absolutely devastating videos from David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office from 1998 to 2008. He comes right out with the taxation without representation bit in the first clip. I seem to remember a little revolution around that phrase, don't you? It was a while back. You know Obama, McCain, Palin, and Biden wouldn't last 30 seconds in a debate with this dude. Not 30 seconds. But he's not debating the pols, though. He's trying to press for change using every available tool he can find. And, sadly, he recognizes that politicians need "cover" to make any serious movement in reforming the financial system of the United States. Cover. I'm going to keep an eye on this guy. He seems, oh I don't know, several billion times more credible than any leader I've seen messing things up the last two decades in Washington.

Embedded Device Makers Turn Away from Linux

OSNews - 3 hours 6 min ago
An EE Times straw poll of embedded device makers in Europe found that while last year 50% said they planned to use Linux, that number had dropped to 33%. 26% said they planned to use a commercial OS, up from 15% a year ago.
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