It has long been discussed in the java community about the lack of a good multimedia framework for the platform. After reading Chris Adamson’s wrap up of his JavaONE BoF I felt here is a cause I could really get behind. I starting thinking yes wouldn’t it be great if gstreamer was ported to java. [...]
Posts tagged Computing
Open Java and Windows Options
Well it’s officially been announced that Java J2SE, J2ME, J2EE will all be released by sun as reference implementations under the Gnu GPL + classpath exception. Which I’m sure will bring a new era of Java, especially to Linux since Java will be able to be shipped with distributions without concern just like Mono is [...]
wikidPad
For a while now I have been waiting for tomboy to be ported to windows because I am stuck in windows land for now because of my sound problem. However on the net it is always talked about having tomboy for Windows but no one has ever released anything that could be considered usable. So [...]
Death to open source by virus scan
Today for the first time my virus scanner here at work started deleting files. Identifying them as the Prockill-DF virus. It wasn’t going to take any chances and deleted the files what was interesting was what files it identified: Filezilla setup Gaim setup #Develop setup xampp setup Are you getting my drift here it’s after [...]
MMMM Mustang
I hate to just blog about someone else’s blog but hey improvements in Java like this don’t come around everyday. In the latest build of Java 6.0, Mustang, they have implemented a better register allocator and have managed to speed up the Hotspot Client by 58%. Now that is amazing and with other improvements like [...]
Thin Client Fun
After reformatting our old Celron 400 Laptop to Hoary Hedghog, Oh the joy of only having Linux on a computer. However since most of my time at the moment is taken up doing C# development and more importantly of the MS.NET kind rather than the Mono But I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu comes with [...]
ep0in
For weeks now my computer, in Ubuntu of course, has been having trouble with ep0in at every boot my messages have been filled with: Jun 14 08:36:45 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: hald timed out on ep0in Which has in turn stopped hal from working properly so mounting my usb key most of the time just [...]
Cups wrapper for HL-2040
I was fiddling around with the windows drivers for my Brother HL-2040 the other day and pressed the button to goto the solutions page lo and behold they had finally written a cups wrapper for their Linux driver :). I don’t really have any qualms about running proprietary drivers, ie. I run my nvidia Linux [...]
Google on the desktop?
Just a quick thing I was reading that I found quite interesing while reading the Google Blog. That it looks like we will see Microsoft-Netscape type battle all over again but this time with the worlds most popular search engine. Read the article on at the NY Times
