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Corvus Crow
The Fireraven
Friday, 10. September 2010, 17:43
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
Even though Oracle appears to have a solid basis for legal action, the lawsuit could permanently burn bridges between Oracle and the broader Java ecosystem. Such blatantly antagonistic litigation sends a clear message to the open source software community that Oracle is a hostile and abusive interloper rather than a contributor.The move reflects Oracle's unwillingness to publicly account for the egregious inconsistency between its message of enthusiasm for open source software and its aggressive conduct towards other companies in the ecosystem. Oracle also operates with double standards. At the same time it's fighting against the usage of Java, Oracle relies on Open Source itself. It distributes and supports Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is nothing but a re-release of RedHat Enterprise Linux. Oracle just removes all trademarks and relies entirely on RedHat and the Open Source community to develop and maintain the operating system.
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Friday, 13 August 2010
Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier this year.Oracle, on behalf of Sun, is arguing that Java is a mobile operating system competitor against Android, and that Google is using Java-derived technologies without a proper license. Java is slow, resource-hogging and not as portable as it's claimed to be. To run a Java program, you need to install JRE first. Awesome portability. Just as portable as your average exe file; you just need to install Windows first. All that aside, Oracle is even worse than Java: that obvious greed for money does not make it interesting to do business with them. They try to squeeze every cent out of anything; and things that don't bring in cash get killed. Just like OpenSolaris right now.
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Sunday, 08 August 2010
PerfProtector highlights two factors for the stress Thunderbird 3 imposes on a PC. One is that version 3, unlike version 2, downloads the full contents of IMAP folders by default.The other is that it then creates a full text index of the material, but does so very inefficiently. Gmail seems to provide a perfect storm, as folders are downloaded several times. Back in June we pointed out that the version 3.1 beta was noticeably faster, it that 1GB of RAM is now recommended, with 768MB as a system minimum. That's why I don't upgrade. My ancient version of Thunderbird suits my email needs just fine. I don't really see any reason to waste disk space, RAM and CPU power with the latest version when I still will be doing the same. If one day my old version will not work anymore for whatever reason I most likely will switch to another client; probably Sylpheed/Claws. Especially the Perl plugin for Claws is tempting. Mozilla should concentrate on the core functions to deliver a lightweight and fast application (think of uTorrent) and put everything else into plugins which can come with the install, but can be disabled/removed. Need IMAP? Get the plugin. Need HTML emails? Get the plugin. Need full-text search? You get the idea.
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Friday, 06 August 2010
Although jailbreaking was common before, the ruling has set the stage for far more companies and individuals to find ways around Apple's iOS and allow users to potentially get more from their smartphones.As nice as it might sound to get beyond Apple's restrictions, those rules are partially in place to protect users. Since the jailbreaking community has so far delivered few apps that justify going through the risky process, it seems that, at this point, doing so makes little sense. What a ridiculous article. It looks like some Apple PR guys wrote it, scaremongering over the break and downplaying the benefits. It's amazing to read how the author tries to convince the reader that jailbreaks will cause tremendous security issues when exactly such issues make the break possible. From his point of view, security is only possible by locking down a device entirely, giving the manufacturer complete control over every program running on it. If this would be true, Open Source would not work.
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Monday, 28 June 2010
Subsequent efforts to decrypt files held on the hardware using a variety of dictionary-based attacks failed even after the South Americans called in the assistance of the FBI.The files were encrypted using Truecrypt and an unnamed algorithm, reportedly based on the 256-bit AES standard. US computer specialists also drew a blank even after 12 months of efforts to crack the code, Brazil's Globo newspaper reports. That's why good passwords are important. So don't use 12345; it may be good enough for your luggage though.
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Random quote from Anonymous: Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_m
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