Monthly Archives: September 2006

java, ruby, groovy!

By stotti | Published: September 18, 2006
mr. sundararajan of sun wrote a nice syntax comparision of java, groovy and jruby. worth watching while switching from one language to another.
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new sha1 encoder published

By stotti | Published: September 18, 2006
today i published the newly implemented sha1 encoder on the mainframe8 site. its algorithm is explained in the fips publication 180-2. there is also a rfc for it. free hashsums for everyone!
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mozilla: new solaris binaries are out

By stotti | Published: September 15, 2006
according to katakai san the new precompiled binaries of mozilla firefox and thunderbird are out. http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.7/contrib/ Firefox Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.7.html http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.7/contrib/ Thunderbird Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.7.html have fun!
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windows to solaris’ desktop migration

By stotti | Published: September 15, 2006
alfred peng has written a short list of substitutions for common windows applications on the solaris platform. here we go (list abbreviated): Internet Explorer —- Firefox Microsoft Outlook —- Thunderbird / Evolution Microsoft Office —- StarOffice Winamp —- Rhythmbox Music Player / Realplayer Adobe Photoshop —- The Gimp Word Pad/notepad —- Gedit Instant messaging —- Gaim Windows Explorer —- Nautilus Windows Picture —- Eye [...]
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understand java’s hs_err error files

By stotti | Published: September 11, 2006
[UPDATE] This information is related to developers only. If you have Java problems or want to know more about hs_err errror logs please refer to this more general post. now david dice of sun came up with this script to simplify hs_err files, generated by java in case of crashes etc. it is written in [...]
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