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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Making Windows find JARs like it finds EXEs and CMDs
After more than a decade in the Java universe, today I had just enough of remembering where my executable JARs are located and typing all the lengthy path names, so I finally taught Windows to deal with Java archives just the same way as it deals with it#039;s native executables EXE and CMD. The trick is so simple that I actually do not understand why the JRE installer isn#039;t applying it automatically to prevent everybody from reinventing the wheel.
Nobody wants to type so much
Two ofnbsp;my most needed programs when coding on Windows, even in the Eclipse era,nbsp;are the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Text Editor. As programmers always are in a hurry, and as I am faster in typing than in clicking, I typically start those by entering their respective binary image names at the start line (thanks Microsoft for not completely dropping it even in Windows 7). After decades of Windows, I meanwhile know that those images arenbsp;%WINDIR%\System32\cmd.exe and %WINDIR%\System32\notepad.exe. In fact, this was not always the case. I can remember that before Windows NT it was not cmd.exe but COMMAND.COM (which actually still is existing even on Windows 7). But actually, I never typed the complete path, and I typically do not type the extension.nbsp;Actually I don#039;t care where to find the program, and I don#039;t care whether the image is an EXE, COM, CMD or whatever. ...
Date: December, 29 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2010/12/29/making-windows-find-jars-it-finds-exes-a
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