Sunbeams: Treasure from Boiled Liquid Edition

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Sunbeams, Bow Wow Wow Edition

Sunbeams, Bow Wow Wow Edition 09/05/2004 11:35 AM
Starting on a serious note: Onno Kluyt runs the Java Community Process, which makes him a VIP, and he’s got a pointer to its scholarship program; this is how you go about getting the seal of approval on your software if you’re a non-profit or an OSS hacker who can’t afford the regular process designed for organizations like IBM and BEA. Check out the recipients. Next, Dave Johnson, who qualifies because he’s about to start working here, wrote a nice picture/analysis of the inside of Rome. With Rome and the Pilgrim Universal Feed Parser, the world has two full-function general-purpose syndication feed wranglers. How many do we need? Hopping over to the other side of the world, Chandan has a neat little piece on pricing in India; if you read to the bottom you’ll find a nastily amusing picture. Tor Norbye asks an obvious question: what is the caps-lock key for and why don’t we just get rid of it? In the eye-candy department Willys Ingersoll posted some remarkable pictures of Shanghai. Will Snow, who’s always worth reading, has a scary story about how to get yourself in big trouble real fast by shifting sun.com infrastructure. In the warm-glow department, check out ML Starkey on working the holiday weekend. And finally... well, this is a little weird, and we all know what they say about what nobody knows on the Internet, but apparently one of our Sun bloggers is a dog.

Sunbeams, Father’s Day Edition

Sunbeams, Father’s Day Edition 06/21/2004 02:31 AM
A few days back, Jim Dillon pointed out that on the face of it, Google and its ilk are violating the spirit of the GPL. Obvious once you read it. Man-Ching Wong is griping too, but in a mild way about pulling a customer-support shift on the weekend. It’s obvious that a company like Sun must have a ton of people like MC, but this is the first exposure I’ve had, it’s a different world. On the Solaris front, we have Eric Schrock showing cool Solaris tricks that I would have killed for back in my integration-geek days; how the hell do they do that? Then you might’ve heard something about Solaris and Open Source? On that subject Andy Tucker is da man (well, one of ’em anyhow) and he’s wrestling with what Solaris OSS means, don’t miss it. Finally, Norm Walsh has a lovely photo-essay; and if the pictures aren’t enough for you, start poking around a little bit in Norm’s site and read how he does it, maybe you think you’ve ever done deep metadata? Norm’s way ahead of you.

Sunbeams, Pink Edition

Sunbeams, Pink Edition 07/23/2004 06:16 PM
Mostly nontechnical today, so let’s do the geeky stuff first: Chet Haase talks up ImageIO and he’s right, it’s coolio, I’ve used it too. Greg Reimer draws a persuasive analogy between conspiracy theories and Internet Worms. Then, Chris Calkins gives us an almost-all-pin k day including a huge picture of a terrific flower; definitely my kind of stuff. Jason Schroeder has a wonderful I-hate-airlines rant, every frequent traveler in the world will be saying “Amen!” And to end the week on a light note, here’s a posting reproduced without permission from the Sun internal Mac Users mailing list: “And it came to pass in those days that they did iPodify their bimmers, yea even unto the those of them that had already more toys than they knew what do to with...” I mean, if iPodifying bimmers isn't a sign of the End Times, well, I just don't know what is.

Sunbeams, Transylvanian Edition

Sunbeams, Transylvanian Edition 08/10/2004 12:25 PM
Our own Bryan Cantrill, world’s most enthusiastic kernel engineer, shares one of the world’s most sickening sensations—a live demo that goes bad—and still manages to be funny. Janos Cserep gives us a Transylvanian travelogue, with lots of colour and some decent pictures too. While in Europe, Daniel Templeton has been running first-rate series of posts on the subject of Germany from the viewpoint of an American expat. Torrey McMahon has some offensive imagery in the context of cheesy seventies glam-rock, what’s not to like. Finally, Dan Baigent reports a story that caused quite an internal stir; some ignorant blogger writing up LinuxWorld 2004 and claimed that the Sun booth was full of Windows boxes. (What actually happened was that someone was fooled by all the Linux and Solaris boxes running JDS, which from a distance does look quite a bit like Windows.) Dan’s take is light-hearted, but you should see the internal mailing lists. If you really want to get a bunch of our engineering Linux and Solaris geeks mad, accuse them of running Windows.

Sunbeams, Trash Talk Edition

Sunbeams, Trash Talk Edition 06/21/2004 08:24 PM
Yow, DME cranked up the numbers at Planet Sun, so I got kind of buried when I went by there this morning; he’s got some interesting stats. Let’s open with a nasty political joke (the best kind). New today, a couple of Javaphone geeks speak up: Jeff Solof on the ultracoolness of Voice Connect and Hinkmond Wong on wireless snitching. For a side trip into philosophy, M. Mortazavi talks up Dreyfus’ On the Internet and makes it sound like a must-read. Finally, I hate it when life online veers into nastiness about personalities and politics and that kind of stuff, but hey, engineers are competitive, and I have no problem with a little my-tech-is-better-than-yours; so in this corner we have Eric Schrock seriously dissing Linux troubleshooting capabilities. I’m sure there’ll be someone in the other corner before too long.

Sunbeams, Rare Goats Edition

Sunbeams, Rare Goats Edition 06/18/2004 05:41 PM
First up, a couple of posts on SunRays, from Jeff Dillon and John Clingan. They are indeed pretty neat, although when, earlier this week, I was at SunLabs in Massachusets, it took the little grey guy a couple of minutes to find my Sun desktop which lives in Santa Clara and render it the first time; but then it was fine and snappy. Danese Cooper has a straight forward explanation of why CEOs probably aren’t going to be blogging any time soon. On another note entirely, Jim Waldo writes about the impedence mismatch between how engineers view the world and how the world views engineers. And just to get out of geek mode, Richard Elling has notes on the word “war” and nice pictures of rare goats that he rescued.

Sunbeams: Writhing Like a Vast, Salted
Slug Edition

Sunbeams: Writhing Like a Vast, Salted
Slug Edition 06/26/2004 05:44 PM
[Editorial note: I’ve gotten a bit of pushback on Sunbeams, from a prominent journalist and my Mom among others. Fair enough, I think the Sunbloggin’ ecosystem has had the necessary leg up. However, I am (for the nonce) still reading them all, and there is some good stuff there, so for the next little while I’ll do a Sunbeams once each weekend. Jeepers, I just looked, there are now 355 accounts on blogs.sun.com.] On the musical front, the Welblogger has a piece on The Arlenes which includes a pointer to a beautiful MP3, and Warren Strange saw The Hip in a small club in Calgary (I’m green with envy). The greimblog useful ly contrasts two categories of religiosos, JXnuts and XCnuts (he compares the Web to the slug in the title). Will Snow, who runs sun.com, gives us a slice of life leading up to Java One. Edward Tufte is one of my intellectual heroes, and this week both Ric hard Kenyon and Martin Hardee have Tuftean outings, the latter with a priceless direct quote that I’d never heard before. Finally, Norm Walsh gives us the lighter side of standards-committee meetings: “What we need are anti-namespace nodes.”

Soft-boiled-egg cakemod HOWTO

Soft-boiled-egg cakemod HOWTO 04/20/2004 07:25 AM
This cakemodder has devised a "soft-boiled egg cake" filled with lemon curd. Yummy! Link (Thanks, Yi!)

Hard boiled crime stories, old and new,
in classic packaging

Hard boiled crime stories, old and new,
in classic packaging 09/06/2004 09:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Hard Case Crime is a new paperback imprint that's reprinting old pulp crime novels and commissioning new novels in the style of the old pulps. They're publishing them in replica packaging designed to look like the old dime-novels, and they've even brought Robert McGinnis, best known for painting the original James Bond movie posters, out of retirement to do cover art.

From World War II through the 1960s, paperback crime novels were one of the fastest-selling categories in book publishing. Millions of readers snapped up hundreds of millions of books by well-known authors like Erle Stanley Gardner and Mickey Spillane, as well as by promising young writers like Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and Ed McBain. Today, Block, Leonard, and McBain still make the bestseller lists with each new hardcover -- but the pulp novels that first captured the public's imagination weren't hardcovers. They were paperbacks you could fit in your back pocket, with jaw-dropping cover paintings and bare-knuckled prose that grabbed you by the collar with the first sentence and held you until the last page. No one's published books like that in years.

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Sunbeams

Sunbeams 07/06/2004 08:23 PM
Well, I said once a week, and it’s been longer than that, but we’ve all been busy. To start on a cheerful note, here’s Jeff Solof on child sacrifice and theological page-turners (really). Staying nontechnical, Josh Simons writes about rare digital books, which will get any bibliophile’s heart pounding; Geoff Arnold points us at an amusing note from Neil Gaiman and adds a chuckle to it. Moving to technology, Br yan Cantrill worries about keeping Usenix relevant. And last week, one big news story was the open-sourcing of Java3D. I am one of the few living humans to have actually shipped a working J3D app, so this turns my crank a bit, if you need 3D I doubt there’s a smoother API in the world for it; check it out. I’m going to have to go revive my Pseudobabyloniana project, should be a snap to move it from Perl to J3D.

Sunbeams, June 10

Sunbeams, June 10 06/10/2004 01:14 PM
I’ve subscribed the aggregated feed over at Planet Sun, mostly in curiosity at how this experiment turns out. Since we’re now somewhere around 300 contributors and growing fast, I won’t be able to keep up down the road; but at the moment I do see a lot of interesting stuff go by, and what I’ll do is aggregate the bits that catch my eye every little while here under the label Sunbeams. Today’s take includes Moazam Raja on Omniscient Debugging (I’ve subscribed to Moazam separately, he’s essential), Hung-Sheng Tsao on all sorts of geeky sysadmin stuff, Frank Lagorio’s scorching smackdown of marketing in Sarbanes-Oxley space, Ron Ten-Hove on JBI (the programmer’s-eye view into Web Services), Josh Simons’ adorable albino squirrel (I’m not kidding, check it out), and finally MCWong’s must-read guide to Kopi in Singapore.

Sunbeams, June 16

Sunbeams, June 16 06/17/2004 03:48 AM
Simon Phipps’ FISL: In Translation is an elegant argument for expanding your language repertoire and your mind; Richard Giles has one nifty little piece about bass vibrato and Google and another on how his new self-publishing podium has opened some doors for him. Ron Ten-Hove gives us a small, densely-written essay about metadata in the Web Services context. Brian Cantrill’s remarkab le opening outing dives deep, with a metaphorical side-trip through cerebral malaria, into dtrace, which is causing some heavy heartbeats among kernel-weenies. On a lighter note, our GNU Desktop Mechanic pens an ode to Bloomsday from Denver, Dave Edmondson gives his car an enterprise-clas s audio upgrade (you have to see this to believe it), and Scott Hudson takes home a Star Destroyer. (No, ongoing is not going to turn into BoingBoing, I miss writing the longer bits and will again, it’s just that between coding furiously on the Zeppelin and den-mothering the Sunblogfloggers well I’m busy.)

Sunbeams, June 13

Sunbeams, June 13 06/14/2004 12:26 AM
Herewith the latest harvest from the Sunbloggin’ posse: John Clingan is on a bit of a roll; his top quote questions the whole “technology analyst” ballgame, and second from the top, he washes some dirty Sun laundry in public (who says we don’t let it all hang out?). Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart does some basic consciousness-raising about J2EE and Application Servers. And Martin Hardee writes about the horrendous difficulty of keeping something like Sun.com organized and (ideally) useful; that’s a problem I wouldn’t be brave enough to anywhere near.

Sunbeams, in Simultaneous Arabic and
Hebrew

Sunbeams, in Simultaneous Arabic and
Hebrew 07/16/2004 05:19 PM
Let’s open with something heartwarming: the simultaneous launch of the Arabic and Hebrew OpenOffice localizations. On the technical front Val Henson introduces Crash-Only Software, another thing that’s obvious when you think about it, only I hadn’t. Ted Kim goes way deep on Infiniband, not omitting the politics. Alec Muffet, it turns out, is the father of “crack”, which has been a fixture in the security landscape as long as I can remember. Paul Lamere, who writes about computer speech, illustrates the problem with a charming and horrifying poem about English orthography. New face Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine deserves notice for his name alone, and his material is very promising. On a lighter note, while Sean Gallagher doesn’t work for Sun, the title of his article about us having sold JDS to Allied Irish Bank is just too good to pass up. Finally, I discovered Richard Friedman, and if you follow only one pointer out of today’s Sunbeams, go look at his pictures. Wow.

Ark Contains Treasure

Ark Contains Treasure 12/28/2004 01:13 PM
Restaurateur's shares shoot up on news of increased profitability.

Treasure hunter

Treasure hunter 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
David Pescovitz: In the December issue of my favorite print magazine Smithsonian, my old friend/Wired editor Michael Behar has a great article about Robert Graf, a treasure hunter seeking a centuries-old pirate's booty. The multimillion-dollar treasure might be hidden in a stone vault now underwater in the Seychelles. Then again, it might not be.

When I arrive on Mahé, it's easy to spot Graf in the crowd at the airport. He's the only guy wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the classic pirate ensign—a skull and crossbones. Tanned and fit, the treasure hunter seems relaxed—hardly what you'd expect from someone who has spent a third of his life obsessed with a long-dead pirate. Yet Graf is no laid-back islander. He's in-your-face intense right from the start. I'd barely heaved my suitcase into the trunk of his rusty compact car when he launched into a breathless retelling of how he'd voyaged some 10,000 miles from his Colorado home, married a Seychellois hotel reservations manager and spent more than $450,000 of his own money looking for a treasure that others have failed to find here for nearly a century.

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what is trash to you might be treasure
to another ...

what is trash to you might be treasure
to another ... 11/18/2003 12:45 PM
Freecycling. Reducing the amount of trash we generate by connecting people who have things that they no longer want with people who want those same things. The only rule: Every item posted must be free.

Treasure These Chests

Treasure These Chests 12/17/2004 06:26 PM
If the rappers of Get It Right records are going to ride Lindsay Lohan's breasts to the top, they need to work on their attitude: "We apologize in advance for any feelings we hurt."

Elscheff's DnD treasure generator

Elscheff's DnD treasure generator 05/22/2004 12:43 PM
Dnd 3.5 Treasure Generator v0.4.1 released

National Treasure (2004)

National Treasure (2004) 12/30/2004 06:28 AM
National Treasure

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Picasso's buried treasure

Picasso's buried treasure 09/14/2004 09:14 AM
Using X-rays and Silicon Valley technology, conservators have discovered a previously unknown painting behind the artist's "Rue de Montmartre."

High-Tech Treasure Hunting

High-Tech Treasure Hunting 07/28/2004 01:25 PM
Forbes Jul 28 2004 5:03PM GMT

A treasure trove of math history

A treasure trove of math history 12/30/2003 02:56 PM
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive from the University of St. Andrews' School of Mathematics and Statistics.

Expired Domain Treasure! ...Or Trash?

Expired Domain Treasure! ...Or Trash? 12/26/2002 05:50 AM
WebmasterBase Dec 26 2002 4:43AM ET

Motorola chief on treasure hunt

Motorola chief on treasure hunt 01/10/2004 11:21 PM
Crains ChicagoBusiness Jan 10 2004 6:01PM ET

Cops, Wifi, Treasure Hunts, And More!

Cops, Wifi, Treasure Hunts, And More! 12/31/2003 08:27 AM

Sunken Treasure Sought Off Jamaican
Coast (AP)

Sunken Treasure Sought Off Jamaican
Coast (AP) 05/15/2004 02:44 AM
AP - Jamaicans have long suspected the waters off their southern coast are teeming with shipwrecks and sunken treasure from the days when the island was a haven for pirates. But they have always been happy to leave the mystery to the sea.

Wardriving sparks wireless treasure hunt

Wardriving sparks wireless treasure hunt 11/14/2003 12:33 PM
ZDNet UK Nov 14 2003 11:41AM ET

Wreck yields Ming treasure trove

Wreck yields Ming treasure trove 07/04/2004 08:43 AM
A massive haul of Chinese porcelain is recovered from a 17th Century shipwreck off the coast of Malaysia.

Treasure Mole: Winter Vacation has been
released!

Treasure Mole: Winter Vacation has been
released! 03/26/2005 05:11 AM
Winter has come! [PRWEB Mar 26, 2005]

Treasure Hunters Create a Stir (Reuters)

Treasure Hunters Create a Stir (Reuters) 07/28/2004 08:04 AM
Reuters - British treasure hunters were warned on Tuesday to stay away from a colony of red squirrels after a best-selling newspaper reported the rare creatures' nature reserve may be hiding a $46,000 engagement ring.

Tennessee programmer creates treasure
hunt for 'WMD'

Tennessee programmer creates treasure
hunt for 'WMD' 12/17/2003 09:36 AM
SiliconValley.com Dec 17 2003 8:36AM ET

Programmer makes 'WMD' treasure hunt
game

Programmer makes 'WMD' treasure hunt
game 12/17/2003 02:43 AM
Boston Globe Dec 17 2003 1:53AM ET

Biblical King Solomon Treasure Turns Out
to Be Fake

Biblical King Solomon Treasure Turns Out
to Be Fake 12/24/2004 12:17 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2004 3:32PM GMT

Programmer Makes 'WMD' Treasure Hunt
Game

Programmer Makes 'WMD' Treasure Hunt
Game 12/17/2003 03:51 AM
AP via Newsday Dec 17 2003 3:23AM ET

Guatemalan Jungles Yield a Wealth of
Maya Treasure

Guatemalan Jungles Yield a Wealth of
Maya Treasure 05/10/2004 05:46 PM
The new discoveries promise to deliver new insights into the last glory years of the classic Maya period.

Larry Flynt, Gardena's Civic Treasure
(Los Angeles Times)

Larry Flynt, Gardena's Civic Treasure
(Los Angeles Times) 05/29/2004 04:52 AM
Los Angeles Times - In the South Bay suburb of Gardena, Hustler magazine Publisher Larry Flynt has finally found a place where civic leaders embrace him, law enforcement professionals salute him and even the tax collectors cut him some slack.

Biblical King Solomon Treasure Turns Out
to Be Fake (Reuters)

Biblical King Solomon Treasure Turns Out
to Be Fake (Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - A tiny ivory pomegranate once believed to be the only relic of King Solomon's biblical era Jewish Temple turns out not to be an artifact from the holy shrine, the Israel Museum said on Friday.

Sunken treasure trove fetches twice
expected price (Reuters)

Sunken treasure trove fetches twice
expected price (Reuters) 05/19/2004 11:49 PM
Reuters - Rare Ming dynasty Chinese porcelain and gold pieces salvaged from a 16th century Portuguese shipwreck near Mozambique have sold for double the expected amount at an auction in Amsterdam.
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