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

2010-03-03 Thread Viktor Klang
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Lloyd Meinholz meinh...@javabilities.comwrote: I'm really not trying to troll, but... Less ability to fix your own problem (jdk 1.6) on a mac than on Linux though. Of course, and if it's a hardware problem you probably can't fix it anyway... Lloyd On

[The Java Posse] Episode 298: duplicate files during backup

2010-03-03 Thread Karsten Silz
Hi, During the episode the Posse talked about how to reduce the data for online backups by avoiding redundant files. This is called data deduplication and is already used in backup and email systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication I would assume most online backup systems use

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

2010-03-03 Thread Kfir Shay
What is your issue with jdk 1.6 on mac os x? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:16 AM, Lloyd Meinholz meinh...@javabilities.com wrote: I'm really not trying to troll, but... Less ability to fix your own problem (jdk 1.6) on a mac than on Linux though. Lloyd On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:49

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

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Wright
Try testing something on Snow Leopard that you need to know will run on Leopard. Leopard doesn't offer java 1.6 at all. Snow Leopard doesn't offer anything else, it's what you get even if explicitly requesting jdk 1.5 On 3 March 2010 12:12, Kfir Shay kfir.s...@gmail.com wrote: What is your

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

2010-03-03 Thread Lloyd Meinholz
I don't have any issue with jdk 1.6 on the mac now, but not too long ago jdk 1.6 didn't exist on the mac (other than the bsd port which I don't think had all the awt completed) and Apple didn't seem to feel that it was important to let people know their plans regarding jdk 1.6. That was when I got

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

2010-03-03 Thread Kfir Shay
I am on Snow Leopard right now with both jdk 1.5 and jdk 1.6 installed with no problems developing against both, if are probably using the java preference panel that doesn't change the underlining symbolic links on the file system And I don't write software that runs on Macs, production machines

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

2010-03-03 Thread Kfir Shay
I am a bit confused, why would you need a piece of software that uses awt to run on jdk 1.6?! On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Lloyd Meinholz meinh...@javabilities.com wrote: I don't have any issue with jdk 1.6 on the mac now, but not too long ago jdk 1.6 didn't exist on the mac (other than the

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

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Neale
I heard that in QLD hospitals there is a captive DNS portal, before you get to the internet, which had a picture of the premier (whoever it was then) and said, in almost these words Don't surf for porn - can't remember the guys name, but he wasn't pretty, I imagine it had the desired effect. On

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

2010-03-03 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
This is *FALSE*. Java 6 is available on leopard. Java6 64-bit is available as a standard apple VM and is installed on all deployments of Mac OS X that haven't explicitly turned off system update. Java6 32-bit is available too via the soylatte project, though running GUI-based apps on this VM

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Funky Java and Objective Scala

2010-03-03 Thread Erlend Hamnaberg
I noticed that you used Linux for the presentation. Which presentation tool did you use? It didn't look like OpenOffice Impress. Overall a good presentation. Keep it up:) On Mar 4, 2010 6:18 AM, Dick Wall dickw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks David - that means a lot - I was a bit flustered when I