Kenny Smith The most popular Linux distribution released their latest version today. Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” is now gold and readily available from http://www.ubuntu.com/download. This release qualifies for Canonical’s Long Term Support (18 months). For those not in the know, Canonical is the company that produces Ubuntu Linux. Their release schedule is a religious 6 months, and … Read more
I have now ditched Microsoft Vista on my T61 laptop. Actually, I have simply put a fresh hard drive in, and installed Windows XP on it. I tried in earnest to give Vista a go. When I first turned on my laptop with Vista, I was pleased with the graphics and recognition of all my … Read more
IBM has now launched a triumverate of new products. Lotus Notes/Domino 8 (aka Hannover), Quickr, and Connections. Ed Brill posted the news on his site yesterday (www.edbrill.com). Notes 8 was made available to the partners yesterday, and when I went to the site to download another product, the site seemed inundated, and I could not … Read more
I’ve recently done a project involving WebSphere Dashboard Framework. Version 6.0 of the product states that it supports Rational Application Developer 7 and RSA. Being that I run RSA, I wanted to install WDF into RSA. The problem is that the WDF InstallAnywhere does not recognize RSA 7 as a valid Eclipse instance, nor does … Read more
This is more for my own memory than anyone else’s. I installed RSA on my new Thinkpad and received an error message the next time I started it up. “jvm terminated exit code=1”. I think my problem was that Vista failed to properly suspend, and I shut it down as it was unresponsive. Subsequently, this … Read more
Got a heck of a deal on my new T61. Core2duo, 4GB, bluetooth, 100GB 7200 RPM drive, 15″ wide screen, DVD+-RW. All for $1800. Gotta love ebay. Anywhoo, my new machine has Vista Business on it. Being the Linux fan that I am, I am skeptical of it. I want to like it. Its got … Read more
We had a project recently where we have been updating an existing Java application and moving it from JBoss to WebSphere. Now some of you millennials may start thinking this is a backwards move, but its not. It is not one that I am working on, but rather something my colleagues are. Follow me on … Read more
IBM is announcing at the Rational Software Developer conference, Rational Team Concert, a commercial product built on the Jazz project. While this has been buzzing around the Java community since it was demoed at JavaOne last year in 2005. The goal of this project is to be to team collaboration what Eclipse has been to … Read more
InfoQ has an article about Geronimo passing the muster for Java EE 5.http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/geronimo-passes-cts To date the following Java application servers are at Java EE compatibility: JBoss 4.2 (not CTS certified, but JBoss says it supports JEE 5)BEA WebLogic 10GeronimoGlassfish (Sun Application Server)Oracle Application Server 11Apusic Application Server 5.0 (….and no, I’ve never heard of thus … Read more
Many thanks to Timothy J Masse who wrote down the directions and included a few steps I missed (like changing from dash to bash). Here they are step for step: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/f683185b98129dd7852572ea001db523?OpenDocument ©2016 Strongback Consulting