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Jacob Cane Design – Website Design and
Graphic Design services ...
Jacob Cane Design – Website Design and
Graphic Design services ...
03/06/2004 02:00 AMFeb 26, 2004(PRWEB) February 26, 2004--Web Development: We use the
best combination of all the tools available for web design, including
Flash, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL, CSS ...
Gurus of Technology
Gurus of Technology
05/06/2004 01:37 AMBusiness Week May 6 2004 6:30AM GMT
Top ten myths about gurus
Top ten myths about gurus
04/06/2005 12:35 PMDavid Pescovitz:
Over at
Guruphiliac, Jody Radzik outlines the top ten myths about your
guru... any guru. Here are a couple:
10. Guruji knows what's best for you
While we acknowledge the possibility that a real true guru could know
what's best for you, s/he'd also know it's best to let you decide for
yourself. Gurus who pretend to know what's best for all their devotees
are fooling themselves as much as they are their disciples...
4. Guruji has no desires
This is based in the most pervasive of the occluding expectations,
that desire somehow prevents self-realization. Desire is merely the
way the body responds to conditions. The guru may (or may not) be over
sex, but when they want a Twinkie, they go get a Twinkie.
LinkAttention CSS Gurus
Attention CSS Gurus
12/19/2004 03:44 PMOkay, here's an important feature request that I have, either for
someone to code as a stylesheet or (assuming no browser supports the
necessary level of CSS that'd be required) a Firefox extension: Please
play back the Windows "tada.wav" sound file whenever I'm viewing a
page on the W3.org site...
Rise of the stat gurus
Rise of the stat gurus
04/27/2004 02:40 PMChicago Tribune Apr 27 2004 6:06PM GMT
The Internet Gurus Unmasked
The Internet Gurus Unmasked
04/21/2004 11:42 AMWebDevInfo Apr 21 2004 3:27PM GMT
Assistance Requested from QuickTime
Gurus
Assistance Requested from QuickTime
Gurus
01/16/2004 01:00 PMYesterday I embedded a short QuickTime video in an item on this blog,
and got several complaints from people who...
Google's Got Geek Smarts, But No Ad
Gurus At Top
Google's Got Geek Smarts, But No Ad
Gurus At Top
05/07/2004 05:39 PMYahoo! May 7 2004 9:52PM GMT
Macworld, Mac gurus on Inside Mac Radio
Macworld, Mac gurus on Inside Mac Radio
07/26/2004 10:40 AMThe July 24th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio show is now available
as an MP3 download...
Music Gurus Scout Out Free Tunes
Music Gurus Scout Out Free Tunes
04/09/2004 03:57 PMWebjay lets users build playlists of MP3s from all corners of the Web
to share with others. The service highlights gems like oldies from
Eastern Europe, or songs dedicated to Condi Rice. By Katie Dean.
Training will turn receptionists into
security gurus
Training will turn receptionists into
security gurus
04/20/2004 07:29 PMGurus nimbly navigate internet space
Gurus nimbly navigate internet space
07/26/2004 05:47 AMTechnology.scmp.com - Mon Jul 26, 08:22 am GMT
Perl/C++ and UNIX/Linux Gurus needed
Perl/C++ and UNIX/Linux Gurus needed
06/30/2004 07:46 PMCharter Global, Inc - United States, WA, Seattle (2004-06-30)
Looking for
Javascript/DHTML/Flash/Frontend
Development Gurus
Looking for
Javascript/DHTML/Flash/Frontend
Development Gurus
06/05/2005 11:20 PM We are looking for experts in frontend development using Javascript,
Flash, DHTML and the likes for articles for our new magazine. Note
that we’re not looking for experts in design (unless they want
to write about design from a developer’s point of view), but in
development–the magazine will be for programmers, not for
designers. I’m [...]
Apple financial gurus talk about the
company's future
Apple financial gurus talk about the
company's future
03/06/2004 01:55 AMApple CFO Fred Anderson and Corporate Controller Peter Oppenheimer,
recently spoke to investors and analysts at the Morgan Stanley
Semiconductor & System Conference. In a session about 45 minutes
long Oppenheimer and Anderson covered some interesting points about
Apple's business strategy, its success with the iPod and iTunes, and
how it plans to continue making money and improving margins.
Game Gurus, Clicking Their Way To Fame
& Fortune (washingtonpost.com)
Game Gurus, Clicking Their Way To Fame
& Fortune (washingtonpost.com)
12/26/2004 10:43 AMwashingtonpost.com - Two years ago this week, over the lull of winter
break, Rocco Repetski got bored the way high school juniors who happen
to be math geniuses (and who happen to take interest in computer code)
get bored. He wondered, why not design an online game?
Jody Radzik's new bl0g critiques gurus
of all spiritual stripes
Jody Radzik's new bl0g critiques gurus
of all spiritual stripes
03/19/2005 03:02 AMDavid Pescovitz:
For more than a decade, my friend Jody Radzik has dropped countless
spiritual mindbombs on me. In fact, he's probably the only person that
holds my interest in such matters. He has a wonderfully-open mind, but
he's certainly no sucker. Jody's an intrepid explorer, always ready to
dig into a belief system but never afraid to knock a guru off his or
her throne with a brilliant and witty observation. In fact, his new
blog--guruphiliac--is about just that. This week's posts include the
likes of subway-gassing Aum Shinrikyo guru Shoko Asahara's prison
proclivity to "wearing diapers and mumbling incomprehensibly" and news
of Hindus pissed off at a Ford commercial where Shiva discusses how
owning the car is good Karma. From the guruphiliac mission statement:
"While we understand that gurus are held sacred by many,
they are also public figures deserving of scrutiny. Our primary aim is
to inject a little humor into what can be an excessively
self-righteous enterprise, and to illustrate the primary truth that no
matter how divine their devotees believe them to be, gurus poop on the
same pot we do."
Link
Video mashup of Russ Meyer + Hoodoo
Gurus / Persian Rugs
Video mashup of Russ Meyer + Hoodoo
Gurus / Persian Rugs
09/24/2004 11:08 AM
Xeni Jardin:
Following up to this week's sad news that sexploitation auteur Russ
Meyers has passed away (
Link), BoingBoing reader Richard Crepeau says, "Thought I'd spread the
word about a Hoodoo Gurus
side project called the
Persian Rugs.
One of their videos uses Russ Meyer clips from
Mondo Topless.
A nice hybrid between garage rock and camp."
On their website, the band says:
"Music and sex go very well together. For proof, just take a look
at the video for the Persian Rugs' new single 'Be A Woman'. The band
and director Todd Sheldrick have created the perfect setting for the
band's 60's Punk-inspired Primal Rock: strippers and cavemen collide
in a 21st Century psychedelic garden of eden. (...) The Rugs got in
touch with famed 60's director Russ Meyer, the maker of such films as
'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls' (the
latter a direct influence on the Austin Powers movies) and asked for
permission to incorporate footage from one of his cult classics,
'Mondo Topless', into their new filmclip. Russ asked to hear the song
first, [and] loved it (...)
Link to
"Be a Woman" *.asx video in low and hi-res, contains megadoses of
kitsch nudity (and shots of vintage '60s electronic equipment). How
did those ladies make their humongous breasts do that stuff
on rhythm? Weighed down by all that eyeliner, no less?
Low End GFX Shootout
Low End GFX Shootout
07/06/2004 06:43 PMDot-Net vs. J2EE shootout.
Dot-Net vs. J2EE shootout.
03/12/2003 11:18 PMThe shootout was
a bit too long and a little too fluffy, but I enjoyed it. I took 20
pages of notes and I will probably write them up for you later but for
right now, I'll just give you some quotes from the J2EE team:
Mark Fleury:
The worst dog of them all is SOAP.
Sang Shin:
Security is not an industry problem, it is a Microsoft problem.
Mark Fleury:
C# to be the number one language in two years: you've got to be
kidding me.
Mark Fleury:
JBoss is a responsible, moral, and open player.
Sang Shin:
Web services is like teenage sex, everybody is talking about it but
nobody is doing it.
Sang Shin:
My grandmother called me last night to tell me that she is doing web
services.
Mark Fleury:
ADO sucks, Dot-Net caching is not there.
Greg Ackerman:
C# is great, very Java like.
Shootout at the So-So Corral
Shootout at the So-So Corral
05/24/2004 04:50 AMGamers with a hankerin' for a western-themed shooter get their wish in
Red Dead Revolver, but everyone else may want to mosey on by. By Lore
Sjöberg.
Webcam Shootout
Webcam Shootout
09/08/2004 08:45 AM
I don't use webcams, because I am ugly. But once upon a
time, I was a pretty princess of a man, and had a pretty good time
playing around with basic video chat and periodic Brady Bunch groups
of pictures on webpages. And while I think it's sort of the received
wisdom that all webcams suck equally, Tom's Hardware took it upon
themselves to see if that was really the case. The result? Not only
can you pay up to $200 for a simple webcam, it seems the more you pay,
the better the quality. Amazing!
Re
ad - Webcam Quality Test Shootout [TomsHardware]
The great 64-bit shootout.
The great 64-bit shootout.
09/20/2004 09:22 PMInfoWorld:
The great 64-bit shootout. I don't agree that percent of peak is
a useful metric for customers, but otherwise it's a decent article.
Wi-Fi Shootout in the Desert
Wi-Fi Shootout in the Desert
08/03/2004 05:26 AMHackers gathering for DefCon's annual conference think they may have
broken a world record for Wi-Fi connectivity. But even if they didn't,
they had lots of fun trying. Kim Zetter reports from Las Vegas.
ATI GFX Shootout @ Driverheaven
ATI GFX Shootout @ Driverheaven
07/01/2004 03:29 PM5 Heatsink Shootout
5 Heatsink Shootout
12/12/2003 09:11 AMDot-Net vs. Java shootout at NCSU.
Dot-Net vs. Java shootout at NCSU.
03/11/2003 09:43 AM
In addition to offering a
week of
high-tech training for $95, TechEngage has also arranged a
Dot-Net vs. Java
shootout on Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 PM, at the N.C. State
University College of Management in Raleigh, N.C. Representatives from
Microsoft and Borland will face off against representatives from IBM,
JBoss, and Sun.
Defcon Wi-Fi shootout results
Defcon Wi-Fi shootout results
08/04/2004 01:47 PM
Wireless tech guru and pal 'o' BoingBoing
Frank Keeney sends word of results
from the annual WiFi shootout (an event at
Defcon that seeks to determine just how far an 802.11 WLAN range can
extend). And here are the winners, according to event organizer Dave:
3 teenagers from Ohio used Orinoco Gold 30 milliwatt USB
adapters mounted on the feedpoints of two 10 foot dishes, and shot
55.1 miles.
Yes, that's fifty-five point one miles! This is a new world's record
for an unamplified shot! Complete details will be in a press release,
which should come out in the next few days.
Link to Wi-Fi Shootout
home page.
GeForce FX 5900XT Shootout
GeForce FX 5900XT Shootout
06/12/2004 05:24 PM3 Die in Shootout Between U.N. Police in
Kosovo
3 Die in Shootout Between U.N. Police in
Kosovo
04/17/2004 06:03 PMTwo Americans working with the United Nations in Kosovo were killed
when a Jordanian officer, also working with the United Nations, opened
fire on them.
The Athlon 64 Motherboard Shootout
The Athlon 64 Motherboard Shootout
01/26/2004 05:23 PMNotes from the Dot-Net vs J2EE shootout
Notes from the Dot-Net vs J2EE shootout
03/15/2003 01:29 PM
Here are my notes from the
TechEngage J2EE vs. Dot-Net
shootout. I tried to be objective while I took these notes
Wednesday and while I typed them in today. I may have made some
mistakes and I may have let some of my open-source/Java bias show
through. You be the judge and leave a comment if you see something
that does not look right.
Opening Statements
MS [Dot-Net]: Dot-Net is a vision of XML web services enabled
by the Dot-Net Framework that happens on the Windows platform. The
evolution of computing goes like this: Mainframe OLTP, Client-server
OLTP, N-Tier TP monitors (MTS 1997, first OTM), web applications
(J2EE, Cold Fusion, Windows DNA), and finally Web Services on the
Dot-Net
platform. When people learn about Dot-Net they wonder where is the app
server? The app server is the Dot-Net Framework, Windows 2003 Server
(with load balancing and clustering), plus developer tools (like
Borland Sidewinder and Together Control Center). Windows is the app
server.
Sam Shim, Sun [J2EE]: Let's talk about Microsoft's contribution
to the evolution of computing. Microsoft's contribution is Fear,
Uncertainty, and Doubt. F. U. D. FUD. Let's talk about some of the FUD
that Microsoft is spreading. FUD #1 is that J2EE is expensive. Don't
listen to them. J2EE is free. The analysts at Gartner say that the
hidden cost of Dot-Net is 40%-60% (sorry, couldn't follow this). FUD
#2 is that the Dot-Net server is a product. Dot-Net server is not a
product yet. Once it is released, how many bugs will it have? How many
security problems?
Microsoft says that portability is not important. This is very
important. Microsoft wants to lock you in. Single vendor lock-in.
Lock-in is not a horrible problem when you are talking about
applications like office suites, but for infrastructure, single vendor
lock-in is very dangerous and expensive. Microsoft touts
interoperability, but only as a bait to draw you into single vendor
lock-in. They also say that J2EE is no good for web services:
wrong.
FUD #4 is that Dot-Net performs better. This is only true in Microsoft
funded benchmarks that are tuned in favor of Microsoft. And look at
this paper about the Dot-Net Petshop, it shows that the Petshop is
pure spaghetti code. Look at this method call from the Dot-Net Petshop
(everybody laughs), this method has 36 arguments. Spaghetti!
FUD #5 is that Microsoft believes in standards and interoperability,
but Dot-Net is not a standard. Only about 5% of Dot-Net has been
submitted as a standard. None of the important stuff you need to
develop app is standard: Winforms, ADO, etc. Even when Microsoft
supports a standard, they always add that "Microsoft extra" that
breaks compatility with other implementations of the standard. Here is
a list of examples: Kerberos, etc. etc.
Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: I like Letterman and his top ten
list so here is my top ten list for J2EE:
1. Openness, avoid single user lock-in
2. Web services, J2EE fully supports
3. Superior platform support, TCO, scalability, Linux
J2EE websphere reference customers (eBay)
4. Products designed to fit your needs
5. J2EE connects to what you already have
6. World class leading development tools
7. Best dev support programs
8. Partner support
9. IBM does not compete with ISVs
10. J2EE is a complete platform
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: We are free and we don't suck. JBoss
supports all of the J2EE standards and helps Sun to write those
standards. JBoss has a services oriented architecture, a microkernel,
and a sophisticated net-boot capability. JBoss brings you unified
classloading, no more ClassNotFoundExceptions. If JBoss can't find
your class, then your class really can't be found.
I'm very impressed with Dot-Net. The method and class atributes
support Aspect Oriented Programming. JBoss does some of the same
things, adding capabilities to your classes by using attributes,
dynamic proxies, and interceptors. All of this stuff can work outside
of the JBoss platform too.
JBoss is the defacto standard. 150,000 downloads per month. App server
market share is 48% JBoss, 28% BEA, and then the others. JBoss offers
extreme stability. JBoss group is 30 people and growing fast. Some of
our references customers: EA Games SIMs online is all JBoss, Playboy
(I'm very proud of this), BASF, MITRE, McDonalds, etc. etc.
Richard Weeks, NetEdge [Dot-Net]: Customers use different
programming languages and Dot-Net supports 40-50 different languages.
Dot-Net is all about multi-language support. Those Java guys want you
to rewrite all of your code, don't do it. Don't rewrite your code, get
interoperability with web services. Dot-Net does not leave anything
behind, you can still use your old code.
Richard Lee, Borland [Dot-Net]: Open source is good, but
sometimes there is too much choice. Microsoft has learned from Java
and open source and has taken the best aspects of them and has built
them into Dot-Net. Borland knows how good Dot-Net is because Dot-Net
made it possible for us to build products very quickly. Our Dot-Net
products come out of our Rapid Application Development (RAD) group
because they are so rapid. Dot-Net makes things so easy, Microsoft is
not the dark side, they are our friends.
Q1: What sets your platform apart?
Sam Shim, Sun [J2EE]: Our vision has always been "the network
is the computer". We have been active in open source software with
Open Office, Netbeans, and Apache. J2ME is everywhere. Java is
everywhere from cars, computers, and phones to rings, smart cards,
etc. Java makes true end-to-end computing possible. Our innovation
continues with the N1 project which promises complete virtualization
of resources, ORION to solve maintenance and upgrade problems, and
Madhatter to bring Linux and open source to the desktop.
Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: The things that set J2EE apart are
openness, standards, and choice. The things that set Websphere apart
are scalability/TCO, web services, comprehensiveness, dev support,
business partner support, support for open source, and most
importantly community.
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: Everybody brags about open source.
At least Microsoft is honest about it. Microsoft does not like open
source and they say so. Sun is very hypocritical about open source.
Both Sun and Microsoft have accused JBoss of taking away the license
revenue money that drives R&D. Guilty as charged! The truth is
this: the big guys can't compete at the container level and that is
why you hear about portal this schmortal that. SOURCE CODE is what
sets us apart. The advantages of J2EE are that it is mature, free, and
ubiquitous. Dot-Net on the other hand is expensive and buggy.
Remember, JBoss wants to commoditize the app server and Microsoft
wants to commoditize the developer.
Richard Weeks, NetEdge [Dot-Net]: Dot-Net supports both managed
and unmanaged code. Dot-Net is flexible. Sometimes web service
implementations don't really follow the standard and Dot-Net helps you
to get around this by allowing you to tweak how it's implemented.
Plus, you can call COM objects. I know BEA has some Java2COM tool, but
Dot-Net's COM support is better. The SDK and the class libraries are
free and there are lots of free tools, SharpDevelop for example. You
don't need a big expensive app server because Dot-Net gives you
choices. You can use only the small parts that you need. Use your old
code, don't rewrite it.
Microsoft [Dot-Net]: Windows is the app server and Windows is
not expensive. Windows Advanced Server is only $5000. Microsoft and
IBM are driving the web services standards, not Sun. Windows is a
standards-based integration platform and platform integration gives
Dot-Net much better performance than Java. The Dot-Net developer
experience is fantastic. We've got multi-language support, the best
web application development environment ever in ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and
a strong versioning story.
REBUTTAL: Sam Shim, Sun [J2EE]: Sun was not involved in the Web
services standards because Bill Gates was playing politics. Bill made
sure that Sun did not get invited. Microsoft wants royalty based
licensing included in standards. Microsoft wants to charge for every
packet of information and monopolize the internet.
Q2: show and tell how you support web services?
Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: Websphere supports "on demand"
computing which allows you to compose your applications as reusable
services. Let's look at a demo of creating a web services using
Websphere Studio (shows an AVI animation of Websphere Studio). Let's
build a stock quote web service. You can build in Websphere Studio and
then use a Dot-Net client to access the web service.
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: This is when I go Phbbbbtbphphppph
(makes a loud farting sound with his lips). Web services is totally
vendor driven and all hype, but JBoss supports it fully. We integrate
Axis. I don't have much else to say. Let me ask you some questions.
How many people do Java and have a Java app in production? (20 or 30
people raise their hands) How many people do Dot-Net and have a
Dot-Net app in production? (20 or 30 people raise hands) How
many people have a app that uses both Dot-Net and Java at the same
time? (nobody raises their hands) See? This
interoperability stuff is just vendor noise. You need to avoid
serialization and avoid RMI and remember SOAP is the biggest dog of
them all. B2B will not work. I worked with SAP once and found that
these guys can't even create a common object model across one company.
B2B vendors are never going to be able to create object models that
cross industries.
Richard Lee, Borland [Dot-Net]: Let's use Control Center to
create a web services. You just set the project type to C# and you are
off. You can add a class using UML notation and the code is
generated automatically. If you change the code, the diagram changes.
If you change the diagram, the code changes. You can use a wizard to
make any object into a web service.
Kenny Jones, MS [Dot-Net]: Analysts say that Microsoft has the
best support for Web services. We support web services through our
entire product line from Office, MS SQL, and MSMQ, to BizTalk, Excel,
etc. Look at you you do web services in Dot-Net Studio. You just add
an attribute to your object and it becomes a web services. Let's look
at how you use a web service in Dot-Net studio. You just add a "web
reference" and then you have a proxy object that you can use to call a
web service.
Sam Shin, Sun [J2EE]: Web services is like teenage sex:
everybody talks about it but nobody is doing it. There are three
phases of web services adoption: 1) simple (now), 2) Enterprise
Application Integration (beginning) and 3) Business web services
(2004). #3 is the most important and Sun will support it through
J2EE, UBL, ebXML, and the Liberty Alliance. It is very easy to
create web services by exposing EJBs, here is how you do it in
Netbeans (shows a wizard).
REBUTTAL: Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: the analysts are mixed on
who is the leader in web services. Some say Microsoft and some say
IBM. IBM does web services for many more customers than Microsoft
does.
REBUTTAL: Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: IBM is much better
on standards than MS.
REBUTTAL: Microsoft [Dot-Net]: J2EE support for web
services is irrelevant. App server vendors and open source software is
pushing web services much harder than Sun.
Q3: how do you support building apps for hundreds of thousands of
users?
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: To support big applications you need
grid computing, but grids are too expansive when you must pay for
software licenses. You also need caching and JBoss has great support
for caching. Don't use serialization. Use caching. Also, you need to
integrate the stack within one virtual machine. Dow Jones uses
JBoss to support 10,000 clients.
Richard Lee, Borland [Dot-Net]: How do you build N-Tier
apps? You need to use modeling and code generation. You need to
use Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Here is a demo of MDA in Together
Control Center.
Kenny Jones, MS [Dot-Net]: We support this by the scalability
of the Windows platform with load balancing, clustering, and caching
built into ASP.Net that allows you to easily cache pages and portions
of pages. Also with distributed session state and the ADO disconnected
data set. You need technology, but you also need the knowledge and you
can get teh knowledge from the MSDN program and Microsoft Patterns and
Practices. Look at all of these customers who use Microsoft to support
giant customer bases Merril Lynch, London stock Exchange, etc.). To
summarize, the platform is scalable and the knowledge is
available.
Sam Shin, Sun [J2EE]: Java has the scalability. Sun has 64-bit
support in the Java VM. When will Microsoft have that? One VM can
scale up to 100 processors, X RAM, and X threads. Tremendous
scalability of just one Java VM. J2EE is all about scalability and
reliability. J2EE vendors compete on scalability and reliability to
benefit you. Dot-Net is constrained by Windows, Dot-Net is not
proven, Dot-Net is single-vendor lock-in. Why should you be the
Dot-Net guinea pig?
Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: IBM has a great deal of experience
in distributed computing (CORBA, Encina, etc.). J2EE is designed
for this stuff. Remember the case studies. Java and VMs
are scalable.
REBUTTAL: Microsoft [Dot-Net]: The analysts say that
portability across J2EE app servers is going to become more and more
difficult. Java app servers do contain vendor lock-in features.
Java allows you to scale to bigger more expensive hardware. With
Dot-Net you won't need to do that, you can stick with the hardware you
already have.
REBUTTAL: Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: The EJB spec does not give
you what you need to scale, you need the cache. The spec is fighting
the implementation here. J2EE is not moving fast enough. We need
Aspect Oriented Programming, from Xerox, where all good things
emanate. Dot-Net does not have what it takes here either: ADO sucks
and Dot-Net caching is not there.
Q4: explain your platform's security system?
Richard Weeks, NetEdge [Dot-Net]: Dot-Net provides code-access
security. This allows you to say where what a piece of code is allowed
to do. For example, if you have a consultant that you don't trust, you
can lock his code down so that it does not threaten you. Encryption is
built in. ASP.Net has forms based security. No more buffer
overflows because of the Dot-Net runtime. Microsoft is putting a big
emphasis on integrated securty.
Kenny Jones, MS [Dot-Net]: Windows security vulnerability is a
myth. Security is an industry wide problem, not Microsoft
problem. Windows has fewer CERT security advisories than Sun or
Redhat. Microsoft has a serious "trustworthy computing" initiative
going on. Microsoft won the Open Hack 4.0 contest. Let me
show you how code that is downloaded from the internet is treated
differently than code that lives on your hard-drive. See: this
downloaded code is not allowed to run.
Sam Shim, Sun [J2EE]: Security IS a Microsoft problem. Security
must be built-in from the beginning. You cannot just bolt it on as an
afterthought. Look at the passport fiasco. Microsoft's Passport
identity management system was centralized, single-point-of-failure,
controlled by Microsoft, and single point-of-attack. No wonder
everybody hated it and it failed. The Liberty Alliance on the
other hand is a federated system, much better. There are 52,000
viruses for Windows and the analysts say it is time to switch away
from Windows based web servers. Viruses are very expensive. The ILOVEU
virus costs us $1 billion dollars. NIMBDA costs $2.6 billion.
Recently, Microsoft's Craig Mundie said "we've been thinking about
security for almost three years now." Microsoft has been in
business for 27 years. It took them 24 years to realized that security
is important.
Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: Good for Microsoft! They finally
realize that security is important, but security needs to be built-in
from the start. Look at Dot-Net security: sandboxing,
code-access security, not exactly novel concepts. Dot-Net security is
just a copy of Java security. IBM is cooperating with Microsoft
on Web services security.
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: UNIX has had better security than
Windows for many years. Security cannot be bolted on. Java
security is excellent. JBoss did JAAS security years ago, before all
of the other app server vendors. JBoss can also use interceptors
to add additional security.
REBUTTAL: Sam Shin, Sun [J2EE]: Microsoft FUD #9 is that
Dot-Net is secure. Dot-Net depends on COM+ which is not managed code
and is therefore unsecure. C# permits unsafe and unsecure code.
Passport has already been hacked.
Closing Statements
MS [Dot-Net]: Let's take a look at what it takes to build a
mobile web app, one with an adaptive UI that looks different depending
on which device you use to access it. Let me cut-and-paste some code
here and let's try to run it. Oh no, the Dot-Net server is not
responding (his computer appears to lock-up). Analysts say that
C# is going to be the number #1 language in two years.
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: C# to be the #1 language in two
years? You're freaking kidding me. Dot-Net has some good features, but
multi-language support is just cute, no more. Without portability off
of the Windows platform, Dot-Net will go nowhere.
Sam Shim, Sun [J2EE]: Java is the most powerful development
technology ever. There are 3 million Java developers, 65 million
Java enabled phones, 8 million lines of Java source contributed to
open source, etc. etc. The development resources are all free: open
source software is almost all Java, tutorials, knowledge base,
community!
Greg Ackerman, IBM [J2EE]: C# is great, very Java like.
Make the rational choice (no pun intended). VB.Net has a big learning
curve, even for veteran VB programmers. C# does too, so why
don't you just go directly to Java. We will welcome you into the
community. Come on out the the Websphere Users Group and the Java
Users Group meetings in the Park.
Mark Fleury, JBoss [J2EE]: JBoss is a responsible, moral,
and open player. Let JBoss be the standard, not Dot-Net or J2EE.
Richard Weeks, NetEdge [Dot-Net]: We keep hearing about free
this and free that. Open source is not free. Support costs
money. Multi-language is not just a cute feature. Each language
has it's own unique advantages and disadvantages. C# and Java are
different. C# is better.
Xbox Shootout: Doom 3 vs. Halo 2
Xbox Shootout: Doom 3 vs. Halo 2
04/09/2005 07:41 AMAbcnews.go.com - Fri Apr 8, 05:32 pm GMT
Audio Codec Quality Shootout
Audio Codec Quality Shootout
04/09/2004 04:12 PMWMA, Ogg, AAC, MP3: They all have their strengths and weaknesses and
everyone has their favorite. We set out to find out which one sounds
best – not by expert listeners in an artificial lab environment,
but under normal listening conditions by normal people.
U.N. Police Wounded in Kosovo Shootout
(AP)
U.N. Police Wounded in Kosovo Shootout
(AP)
04/17/2004 11:25 AMAP - At least seven international police officers were wounded in a
shootout Saturday near a prison in northern Kosovo, a U.N. spokesman
and a Serb doctor said. An American woman was in critical condition.
External TV Tuners/PVR devices: 3-way
shootout
External TV Tuners/PVR devices: 3-way
shootout
12/24/2004 12:55 PMTV Tuners for the PC have existed for a long time but with the ever
increasing popularity of TiVo-like services and the possibility of
replicating such features on your Windows PC with little effort and a
small investment, tuners have been getting a lot of attention this
year.
TechSpot takes on three different products for this shootout, all of
them external devices which should offer extra versatility versus its
internal counterparts. The first is a unit from Transcend, which is
called the TV-Box. Next on the docket will be a unit from Digistor.
And finally, the largest of the bunch is the RTV VEG-N Video
Entertainment Generator.
These are no frills units that allow you to watch television on your
monitor, or play an Xbox game or two. How about a night at the movies,
right on your laptop? Need a place to connect your camcorder to, and
record the video? Do you like to pause and record live television? And
guess what? It’s pretty darn cheap.
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TechSpotRead full story...3 U.N. Police Die in Kosovo Jail
Shootout (AP)
3 U.N. Police Die in Kosovo Jail
Shootout (AP)
04/17/2004 08:32 PMAP - A Jordanian policeman opened fire on a group of international
U.N. police in Kosovo on Saturday, killing two Americans before he was
killed when officers returned fire. Ten American officers and an
Austrian were wounded.
Grok Description matches for "the first Gurus v. Bloggers Design Shootout"
GrokA matches for "the first Gurus v. Bloggers Design Shootout"
"the first Gurus v. Bloggers Design Shootout"
