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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                       				        David Dice: A scheduling and dispatching oddity on Linux					                      
                 
                    
                    
                 
					
While benchmarking a concurrent application on Linux I ran into an odd problem worth relating.  Specifically, I'm using ubuntu 9.10 with linux kernel 2.6.31-1 running on a 1x4x2 Core2 i7-920 "Nehalem"  (1 package; 4 cores/package; 2 logical processors/core via hyperthreading).  I'd noticed that our scaling numbers were a bit odd, with more than the usual fall off past 4 threads (it's a 1x4x2 system ...
 
 
Date: January, 26 2010 
Url:  http://blogs.sun.com/dave/entry/a_scheduling_and_dispatching_oddity 
 
 
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