This is news only because I find it so odd. Both Adobe and Macromedia are taking a pass on MacWorld in New York this summer. Granted, neither of those companies really need to evangelize those products to the Mac community, but it’s still strange to see major players like that blow off that show.
Everything looked good for webcasters when CARP threw out their proposed rate structure that would basically put an end to webcasting. Unfortunately, the new rates they’ve come up with will still put many webcasters out of business. I guess people will just have to download exactly the songs they want to hear from file swapping services rather than settling for listening to whatever happens to be on Web radio. (You can read more about the decision at the RAIN site.) ...
If you’re running Apache, you probably need to install the latest version, because there’s a big exploitable hole in all but the most recent versions of Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0 on all platforms.
I finally got my first Amazon Gold Box. Unfortunately, I was offered a garlic press, a vacuum cleaner, a rapid wine chiller, a fancy corkscrew, and a bread maker. Why not a nice La Creuset pan or a cool set of headphones? Oh well, even though I wasn’t offered anything I wanted, I was relieved to finally see the damn thing.
… your job involves doing a lot of this sort of thing: find . -name "*.java" -exec grep -H method_name ;
I read on a mailing list today that Red Hat has made the Java port of the Ars Digita content management system available on their site. I’ll be looking at it closely over the next couple of weeks or so, I think.
The Justice Department argued yesterday before an Appeals Court that an enemy combatant is whatever the President says one is, and that once you’re classified as such, you have no legal rights whatsoever. I hate to be alarmist, but I find this whole “enemy combatant” gambit disturbing. I don’t have a problem with the idea of an enemy combatant being imprisoned until hostilities cease (as a prisoner of war), but when we start to expand the definition of combatant and hostilities such that any person can be imprisoned without a trial for any length of time, we’ve crossed a line that we really don’t want to cross as a society. The article discusses Yasir Esam Hamdi, a Saudi national who happened to be born in the US and was captured in Afghanistan. Clearly he more closely fits the enemy combatant mold than Jose Padilla, who is an American citizen, was captured in America, and as far as we know, has never committed a hostile act toward the United States. It’s certainly true that Padilla went to Pakistan and Afghanistan for terrorist training, but his case leads us further down the slippery slope toward imprisoning people for utterly arbitrary reasons. ...
Today Salon’s top story is a rundown (Premium subscribers only) of some of the high profile arrests of Muslims the FBI made after 9/11. They wound up detaining over 1,000 people, and none of them have been charged with any terrorism-related charges. Even some of the creepiest stories, like the one of the guys found in Texas with hair dye and box cutters, turned out to be nothing. Just another example of the ill effects of hysteria. ...
O’Reilly has an article on using the Java 1.4 logging API. It doesn’t answer the burning question, though, which is how the API compares to Log4j, which is pretty nice in its own right. It’s unfortunate that the API described in the article isn’t a drop-in replacement for Log4j, because from the looks off things, the two are very similar. The nicest feature of Log4j is that you can throw a config file for Log4j into your classpath and it will be picked up automatically. In each environment I use, I have a customized Log4j properties file … that makes it easy to keep heavy duty logging enabled on my desktop machine, slightly lesser logging in development, and only logging of errors turned on in production. ...
First it was no OS, then it was Lindows, and now Wal-Mart will be selling computers pre-loaded with Mandrake Linux. I have no idea what the larger significance of this is, but it’s pretty cool.