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Islands in the Stream
Some will say that Apple's iPad is the be-all and the end-all of portable computing. I say nay. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Apple. But look at the history. Datapads are not a new idea - Alan Kay's DynaBook and Mark Weiser's ideas of Ubiquito... |
28-Jan-2010 |
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JavaOne without Moscone Center?
After a very long and uncomfortable silence, Oracle, having passed the last(?) regulatory hurdle to their acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today announced that the JavaOne conference will in fact go ahead - this year. It will be co-located, but not m... |
27-Jan-2010 |
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Another Top 10
Here we go again: FBI fabricated "terror emergencies" to justify illegal monitoring of phone calls Bruce Schnier reveals how U.S. demands for monitoring capabilities lead to the Chinese(?) hackers hacking Google ACTA, who taketh away the rights ... |
25-Jan-2010 |
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OpenMoko and Android
A few people have asked me at various times for a comparison of the OpenMoko and Android cell phone projects. Given that I advocate for the former, and also for Java which is (and is not) the base language of the latter, I am expected to be able to ... |
21-Apr-2009 |
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Microsoft Bites Me Again
I just created a Java application that is needed on several platforms, one of which, alas, is the ubituitous and ill-designed Microsoft Windows XP. In the project there are some classes that are auxilliary to the main program. Naturally enough I create... |
17-Mar-2009 |
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A Pox Upon all of your getMessage() calls
If you're not a Java programmer, you might as well run along to the next blog entry below. If you are, how often have you seen - or tolerated - code like this in a library you're using? try { clazz= Class.forName(classN... |
19-Jan-2009 |
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RepRap and The End of Want
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, one of the most pervasive inventions was the "replicator&quo... |
9-Mar-2008 |
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Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten. End Software Patents Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco ... |
6-Mar-2008 |
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2008: A Year of Tipping Points?
I meant to write this for New Year's but got distracted. Perhaps it's a case of "better late than never". I predicted that 2008 will be a year of several "tipping points". First the Good News: I had planned to say that 2008 would ... |
15-Feb-2008 |
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Thecus Back To Life
The Thecus N2100 whose untimely demise I blogged recently is now, I'm happy to report, back to life, thanks to some help from the folks at Thecus in Taiwan. I'm putting some finishing touches on the OpenBSD install notes that should be ready in a few d... |
26-Nov-2007 |
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Mac OS X Users want Java 6
This would seem surreal to a mainframe programmer of 20 years ago. Bloggers are putting the string 13949712720901ForOSX into their Blogs so that a Google Blog Search/Count can be used to show that a lot of people want Apple to release Java 6 for Mac OS... |
7-Nov-2007 |
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... |
31-Oct-2007 |
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iBrick
What can one add to this? I like a lot of Apple's technology, but their decision to make a customers' iPhone into an iBrick at the drop of a hat is leaving a lot of people puzzled. And it sends an ominous picture of the future of cell-phone tech; I'm g... |
12-Oct-2007 |
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Microsoft anti-piracy backfires
This Ars Tecnica article talks about the story, which is fairly well-known by now; Microsoft security people loaded incompetent code into their anti-piracy server (gratuitously named "(MS)Windows Genuine Advantage", when it clearly gives the ... |
3-Sep-2007 |
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Beautiful Code
O'Reilly has opened a site called Beautiful Code with discussions and articles about the eponymous topic, partly by the authors of the eponymous book. Sample openers include "One of the reasons there's less beautiful code in the world than most of... |
9-Aug-2007 |
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What's wrong with the Web, part 42
In a story on BoingBoing, a "web developer" who got a major bit of Sticker Shock on his eye(candy)Phone from AT&T wrote: "On the way to the airport, I activated the per-use international roaming data plan - the only one offered to m... |
31-Jul-2007 |
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On Strike for a better world?
When I mentioned on a mailing list that I don't use Skype because it's closed source both at the protocol level and at the code level, and further they don't even provide binaries for OpenBSD, a colleague on that list wrote back: This is pretty strang... |
13-Jun-2007 |
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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: An Eternal Brown Triangle
In the bad old days of computing - the mainframe era - it was common for IBM to try to prevent customers from using cost-effective third-party solutions in conjunction with expensive IBM mainframes by spreading "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" ... |
21-May-2007 |
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JavaOne Summary
This has been a very busy week at JavaOne, with lots of new announcments but few major ones. One of the largest announcements was a small but powerful technology called JavaFX, which is potentially very significant because it provides a compositional A... |
11-May-2007 |
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Microsoft: Giant to Relic in under a decade?
My pal Lak recently resumed blogging and pointed to this piece on the 1999 verdict in U.S.A. v Microsoft. Back then Microsoft was the behemoth that crushed Netscape and nearly crushed Java, in the process diverting Java from the Applet to the Enterpris... |
18-Apr-2007 |