The Cave

Some comments from someone who’s been using Java 1.5′s new features for the past 6 months. And no, I can’t bring myself to say Jave 5.0. I hated Java2 as well, back in the day. F*cking Sun. It’s Java 1.5.

Netty provides event based nio. Nifty stuff.

For those who believe the bible must be taken literally, explain this.

Yet another article about Cobb County’s “Evolution? Who needs it?” idiocy. An amusing article, for those who don’t have to live in this bastion of scientific inquiry and exploration…

Intel has no IOMMU? In short, x86-64 machines with >4GB RAM and 32-bit PCI cards need bounce buffers. AMD 1, Intel 0.

I know which one I’d take.

Neat list of JVM options for ‘all’ versions of Sun JVMs. Would be neater if it listed other JVMs too, e.g. IBM and JRockit.

I love creative people.

Laugh or cry baby. Laugh or cry.

To the citizens of the United States of America, In the light of your failure to elect a suitable President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and [...]

Use Oracle from Python. Thanks to Steve Finch for the tip.

Why are there 2 different types of Klingons? An age old question…

New Rule from Bill Maher’s last episode of the season: And finally, New Rule: Stop saying that blue state people are out of touch with the values and morals of the red states. I’m not out of touch with them. I just don’t share them. In fact, and I know this is about 140 years [...]

“Poverty” in the 1st world is radically different from the 3rd world. Disturbing.

Useful article on the subject. For techy weenies.

I wish.

Some interesting Chinese inventions (or at least, innovations). This U.S. presidential election was about “values”, with Iraq and “terrorism” playing major roles. Alas, “the economy” was supposedly in play, but never really got any traction. Sadly, given track records and real world forces, it’s unlikely we’ll see anything more (less?) than the further decimation of [...]

Lovely quote from Dick. No, really. Accurate. Not insulting like his “mandate” remark when he introduced W for his acceptance speech. And yeah, it’s a Maureen Dowd column, just happens to be where I saw the quote. Nope, never read her columns before. See her speak a few times on TV shows (e.g. Bill Maher), [...]

Tell me how the the Gestapo differs from a US Justice Department armed with the PATRIOT Act. I’m having a hard time seeing a difference, except in scope of how it’s been used. So far. And regardless, that’s a pretty fascinating rundown on the history of the Gestapo. Ahhh, the benefits of an American education [...]

If you’re less than thrilled with the outcome of the presidential election, maybe this will give you some ideas. Or at least some laughs.

A really nifty ‘live’ map of the electoral college, and you can diddle with the results for your own calculations. I just popped thru all the not-yet-called states and assigned them to whoever had the largest % so far. Bush-265 Kerry-269 Hawaii-Tied-4 votes Heh. Give that to Bush and it’s a 269-269 tie, with all [...]

He’s pretty plainly called it for Kerry – as he has for a while. He explains why, and there’s quite a rational basis for it. Something may not be rotten in Denmark, but it certainly seems past its sell date. Will be amusing to see how right he got it. [The rationales, not the end [...]

Wonkette has some amusing news about Virginia.

It’s satire like this that shows they’re nearly unmatched at their game.