Monthly Archives: August 2011
Tony Sale dies
| August 31, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
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I’m very saddened to read that Tony Sale has passed away aged 80. Anyone with an interest in the historic Colossus computer or the Bletchley Park museum will know of him. Some (myself included) may even have been lucky enough to meet him – he was a very nice man with a warm (and dare… read more
20 years of Linux
| August 25, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Computer Floss series, News |
I’ve seen a few messages wishing happy birthday to the Linux kernel. I’m not sure how software can have a “birth”-day, but whatever. The Inquirer reminds us that today is the 20th anniversary of Linus Torvalds’s announcement to the world that his kernel was in existence and under development. Which reminded me about the video… read more
Computer Floss: Now with IPad-friendly swipe-filled goodness
| August 22, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
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Thanks to my Significant Other™ and her IPad fever, I’ve added a very nice little plug-in to my setup here at Computer Floss called Onswipe. In their own words, Onswipe “makes it insanely easy to make your content look great on all touch devices.” Indeed it is easy. All I did was install it without… read more
New release future-proofs Saros
| August 16, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
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As my previous post suggested, the changes introduced by the recently released Java 7 and Eclipse 3.7 caused our project a couple of headaches. After some careful development and an extensive period of testing, we can confidently say that the latest release of Saros (version 11.7.29) works happily with the latest generations of Java and… read more
Solving XStream-related problem
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
Just a quickie post to advertise a solution we on the Saros team found to a quite serious problem resulting from the release of Java 7. In testing, Saros was functioning fine with Java 6 users, but Java 7 users experienced problems that we only found through looking at the error log: ERROR 2011-07-29 16:43:38,942… read more
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