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OpenCoffee Rennes, mercredi 16 décembre

Startups And Communities @ Sun | /FR | November 27, 10:18 AM PST | By Thierry Manfe

Le prochain OpenCoffee de Rennes aura lieu le 16 décembre, 19h00, au St Melaine, rue St Melaine. A l’occasion de l’un des derniers open coffee de 2009, la soirée du 16 décembre commencera avec une présentation de trois projets qui ont mûri tout au...

November 27th, 2009

VirtualBox Buzz | /VirtualBox Buzz | November 27, 09:20 AM PST | By TheFatBloke

Google Chrome OS review: First Look IT PRO However, Sun's free VirtualBox did the trick. Once downloaded, you simply go through the wizard, give your virtual machine a name (ChromeOS seems sensible), ... See all stories on this topic ...

ACPI Shutdown and Windows 7 or Vista

The Fat Bloke Sings | /VirtualBox | November 27, 08:59 AM PST | By TheFatBloke

A little something that had me scratching my head for a while and may save others some time.... When you try to close the window of a VirtualBox virtual machine session, a dialog pops up thus: In the past, the "Send the Shutdown signal"...

hmm. New Forks

Ghost Busting | /Cycling | November 27, 07:51 AM PST | By cwb

My mountain bike is about 8 years old. It's a Gary Fisher Sugar I bought way back in 2000. I love it, I'm not heavy or daft so don't need huge amounts of travel, but my forks (Manitou SX) while good, have always been a bit flexy and not really felt very...

Proposition Eclipse Gemini - Projet pour modules d...

L'aquarium | /Sun | November 27, 07:43 AM PST | By alexismp

Une nouvelle proposition Eclipse ( Processus de développement Eclipse : pre-proposition et proposition ) vient d'être récemment publiée sur Eclipse.org . En paraphrasant la proposition, le périmètre de Gemini est double ...

Tracing in Jersey

Earthly Powers | /REST | November 27, 06:46 AM PST | By sandoz

A common complaint we have been hearing is that JAX-RS/Jersey can be hard to debug when the application is not behaving as expected, for example "why the *!@& is my resource class not matching and instead the client is receiving a 404 response?" ...

Building openjdk 7 on ubuntu (kubuntu)

Ivan Krylov | /Sun | November 27, 05:56 AM PST | By Ivan P Krylov

Lately I tried to build openjdk7 build 76 on my fresh new kubuntu machine. I thought it is worth recording the steps for anyone who might have any troubles 1) Check that online repositories are allowed. This can be done in GUI or by editing file...

Rotating letters in 3D using JavaFX

Lawrence premkumar | /javafx | November 27, 05:33 AM PST | By Lawrence Premkumar

It is very common scenario to rotate a node. Rotating can be done either by using rotate attribute in Node class or by using the javafx.scene.transform.Rotate class. Both the approach are equivalent to translating the coordinates and the resulting...

RPS JavaFX game now avalaible on JavaStore

Bric A Brac ! | /JavaFX | November 27, 05:33 AM PST | By Christophe Vaille

JavaFX: The 60's Shi-Fu-Mi machine The famous 60's Shi-Fu-Mi machine is now available on JavaStore. java.sun.com/warehouse

Interactive Tour: Sun-Powered CLUMEQ Supersilo Dat...

Sun HPC Watercooler | /HPC Article of the Day | November 27, 05:00 AM PST | By Rich Brueckner

When supercomputing consortium CLUMEQ designed its high-performance computing (HPC) system in Quebec, it was able to house it in the silo of a former particle accelerator on the Université Laval campus. The structure's 3-level cylindrical floor plan was ideal...

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