February 2008 Archives

Puzzling OpenJPA warning of the day

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11 WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - The property named "openjpa.Id" was not recognized and will be ignored, although the name closely matches a valid property called "openjpa.Id".

GMail via IMAP problem

meeting etiquette

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The woman next to me feels it necessary to simply bang on her keyboard as she types at a small conference here in NY... what is proper etiquette to get her to stop? Ask nicely? Shut the lid on her laptop? Just frogmarch her out of the room?

Overheard from a friend in Leiden

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"yah, we had to go grocery shopping... the closest usable supermarket was in belgium"

Wow - Jim Hurley left Sun!

Jim Hurley has left Sun. (Sorry about the link to a response to Jim's announcement on the Apache River mail list, but I couldn't find the original post...)

I met Jim when helping the JINI community move to the ASF. He's a really nice guy and a great engineer. He told me where he's going, but I don't know if I can say :) I wish him well - this is a loss for Sun.

testing my ethics

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I'm was at 36,000ft above the atlantic going west. We're just passing Iceland. I had rented the latest Pirates of the Carribean via iTunes before I left on this latest UK jaunt, and after a few rather intense few days, was very excited sit back, chill and watch it in a Steve-Jobs-Approved way, of course. Which is fine - I just want to watch the movie. After all - this was trip #3 to the UK this month, and I'd seen everything that AA was showing on the plane that I had a vague interest in. But, much to my dismay... I can't watch it. Why? Some clown at Apple decided that one has to be connected to the internet to watch a movie that you paid for and downloaded. (Yeah, for Joost you need to be connected even though we cache, because we *are* a streaming service...) I assume said clown wanted to prevent the 0.0025% of all mac users that use virtualization from doing VM snapshots and watching the movie over again or something. I'm actually a big fan of copyright and other IP rights (and ironically think that Hillary Rosen and the RIAA did more harm to copyright owners than anyone realizes - single-handedly, she created a generation of people that simply don't respect IP), but at that moment, I *completely* understood at least one aspect of what drives the anti-DRM crowd (and there are others, such as DRM not respecting copyright expiration and fair use). It's only a matter of time before some 17-year-old breaks Apple's DRM, probably out of frustration like mine. I hope that isn't what it takes for me to watch movies I rent.

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