February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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October 2010
October 25, 2010
I love the title of Ian Skerrett's article. They problem is that in the belief system of the Mirror Universe which Oracle inhabits, they do have a clue. It's the rest of us unkempt heathens that don't get it. Oracle can't get a clue until first t...
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October 24, 2010
With apolgies to Babylon 5.
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October 24, 2010
This semester, I am teaching a very bright and motivated group of students at the Ho Chi Minh Technology of University. (It's the standard undergraduate programming langugages course, and I use Scala as the primary language. But that's for another b...
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October 22, 2010
Time for a refresh of 0.44 with some bug fixes.
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October 22, 2010
Last week Microsoft released MS10-077.
Here are the details.
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October 22, 2010
Doug Lea posted why he is not seeking another term on the JCP Executive Committee: I believe that the JCP is no longer a credible specification and standards body, and there is no remaining useful role for an independent advocate for the academic an...
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October 21, 2010
For the record, I just cast my JCP election votes.
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October 20, 2010
The JCP elections are vital to the future of Java.
Yet I believe there is evidence of Oracle manipulation.
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October 18, 2010
One of the saddest (but tragically true) technology articles I've read lately is Robert Strohmeyer's article in PCWorld Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead. The most important paragraph is:
One of the key pieces of the linux ideology that has been a...
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October 15, 2010
JDK 7 build 114 is available. Build 114 completes the JLayer component, adds a ConcurrentLinkedDeque, adds a NIO.2 filesystem provider for zip/jar archives, implements the announced Java vendor property changes, and contains a set of improvements ac...
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