Re: [The Java Posse] Re: IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-28 Thread Graham Allan
nope, just a pretty big enterprise software company. I don't think I should mention the name... You should realise, if you are really worried about the anonymity of the company, that it took a single Google search and viewing a couple of pages to find the name of it. Just in case you weren't

Re: [The Java Posse] Recommendations on cross-platform external drives?

2010-02-28 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/26/10 22:49 , Matt Stine wrote: Finally getting back to thisNAS looks like a nice option indeed. Western Digital's My Book NAS is decently priced. What model Lacie are you using? I got this:

Re: [The Java Posse] Recommendations on cross-platform external drives?

2010-02-28 Thread Jo Voordeckers
The NAS I recently purchased, is excellent in a mixed platform environment (OOTB Itunes, Iphoto and TimeMachine integration is a huge plus for me), easy to setup and maintain and it also runs apache, php, mysql, java, tomcat, svn, ...: http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=147 Regards,

[The Java Posse] Re: IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-28 Thread John Wright
This sort of thing is completely normal. Sure, some enlightened companies may have laxer policies such as allowing Macs. But of your list what would you remove? XP is now becoming a hardened OS for enterprises because of the effort that has gone into making it secure. Instant Messaging outside

Re: [The Java Posse] software engineering ideas can implement by JAVA

2010-02-28 Thread Erlend Hamnaberg
I have tried to get time to build an application that can read Daisy cds. The Daisy [1] format is an open format for audio books. This uses the SMIL [2] format and should be relatively easy to parse. There are no really good open source applications for this kind of stuff, and most commercial

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: software engineering ideas can implement by JAVA

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne Fay
How about a utility that performs a search through JAR files for a pattern? Something like grep for Jars. You could either have it search Isn't that called strings on Unix or tar tvf blah.jar | grep myclass? ;-) Wayne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: software engineering ideas can implement by JAVA

2010-02-28 Thread JamesJ
Good Ideas that will challenge you, but if you look around, you may find that there are many existing solutions. I had an intern about 8 yrs ago that had a linux solution for image change detection that he open-sourced somewhere. Don't remember any details anymore. He used some strong math