I've recently been battling an issue with my Media Temple (ve), and a rather archaic kernel. I share it here in the hopes you won't get bitten too.
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Doug Lea has proposed to promote memory fencing mechanics into implementation APIs in Java. I cover what this means.
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Accessing JMX interfaces has been phenomenally difficult over the years due to some limitations. With recent Java 7 builds, that is a thing of the past.
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A number of good things happened this week for desktop Linux folks - I summarize a few.
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Another batch of concurrency utilities is in the pipeline for Java as JEP-155. This is part one of a short summary of what is planned.
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A new enhancement proposal is in for Java that describes creating value objects, allowing the JVM to treat complex objects as primitives.
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Valve has released Steam for Linux to 1000 testers, and Nvidia is releasing drivers that suck a little less.
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As yet another sign of the coming Git-pocalypse, Atlassian is dropping support for hosted Subversion from Atlassian OnDemand.
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The Valve folks talked at UDS this year about Steam for Linux, what it means, and what is coming.
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I did some site updates - let me know if you have problems!
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