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 [...]
Posts tagged Open-Source
Big News
Well once again me like some of my friends find it hard to actually get to the content page and add new stuff to their blogs but I think the news of the last 2 weeks really deserves a blog post.
Well probably the biggest news is from this week, Merinda and I have bought a [...]
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 all the setup programs for [...]
Time Passing
Well it’s been quite a while since my last post I’ve been keeping myself quite busy with work on the Final year project for my BSE it looks like it will be quite an exciting project however it is going to take a lot of my time up.
Currently I have been playing around the Technical [...]
Marked Up Code?
Wow look at that I haven’t posted in almost one whole month :mrgreen:. O yeah I have been on holidays from work for 3 weeks…. That would be it…. Nothing like camping in the middle of no where (Cumberland River) for a week to ween you off the Internet and blogging….. Anyway on to the [...]
Crazy XUL
I have started to learn XUL over at XULPlanet and looking at the way Firefox works and have just been playing around and I made something cool.
And no this wasn’t created using the GIMP it was created using only Firefox so give it a whirl just click chrome://browser/content/browser.xul.
WARNING: This will most likely cause a NULL [...]
Firefox 1.0
Well after 18 months of development it is finally here. The 1.0 release of Mozilla Firefox and so far it seems to have fixed a few of those little problems with 1.0PR(1.0 Pre-Release).
With this release finally marking as stable it means today more than ever we should be recommending to everyone from your Tech friends [...]
Open Source Challenge
I challenge all my fellow Linux geeks and other computer users out there to take up the *[Open Source] Challenge*. That is that each one of you try to use Open Source for all your computing. Now I hear you say “I spend most of my computing time at work and I can only use [...]