Posts by David Cuthbert 11 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2008
Trouble is Java 7 isn't quite ready for prime time on the Mac.
This. I can't believe just how broken Java 7 is on the Mac when it comes to UIs. Even sticking with plain old AWT and Swing, I find cases where <code>drawShape()</code> just doesn't, graphics contexts get flipped, images don't quite render correctly, etc. This is why I still have Java 6 on my MacBook.
And, yes, that does make me cringe. There are features in 7 I'd love to use in my code, but can't.
If an error in a "routine maintenance operation" causes this kind of outage, then I'd say it's a larger problem in the process rather than training. (Not that the place I work at is immune to these kinds of process failures, mind you, but at least we identify them for what they are.)
"Blackberries running Microsoft Windows 2003 or 2008?" Really, now, you think a handheld can run a server OS out of Redmond? What's next, iPhones running SQL Server?
Go back and re-read the article. They're talking about the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, a bit of software kit installed on a corporate application server, not the handhelds themselves. It even states that device software is not affected!
Typing this, ironically, on my Crackberry...
Actually, this largely describes the NT kernel. All kernel objects are security-aware, and access is controlled using appropriate ACLs (rather than an overly powerful superuser).
It was well engineered -- perhaps even over-engineered, and somewhat hard to use. This (in part) led to the rest of the operating system requiring you to run with escalated privileges (Administrator) to do anything useful, an unfortunate design decision which eventually gave birth to UAC to fix.
Sounds like the same old promises, repeated over and over: "REST is good. REST will free you from all your (scaling|integration|caching|business logic) worries. Come join us, and become enlightened by REST. (Two drink minimum; mileage may vary; some restrictions apply; see dealer for details.)"
Now, REST is fine and all (or at least no worse than any other protocol I've had to use), but at the end of the day it's one *very* small piece in the software solving the business problems I deal with.
Ah, you cheeky Brits. Here, I was trying to figure out what, exactly, you're supposed to do with these tax CD-ROMs; this is an IT site, and you are talking about discs, after all. It took me about five or six comments to realize you're talkin about what we refer to as "tabs" or "registration stickers" in the colonies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H States.
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