Sun Studio Patches Released in January, 2006

List of Released patches for Sun Studio in January, 2006.

Posted at 05:06PM Mar 15, 2006 by Mikhail Bykov in Sun Studio  |  Comments[0]

Multi-Bottom Glass

I'm going to start to publish here Java programs which I ever wrote in my life. Here's one of them I did at Stanford. This looks like a famous game, but sorry, no keyboard, use mouse only. Graphics library I used had a lot of restrictions, so it was really hard to do a perfect interface. Just click the following link:

Multi-Bottom Glass

Warning: on some systems it could take a long time to load this applet. It depends how fast is your machine. Firefox browser will not work, use Mozilla instead.

Posted at 09:58AM Mar 14, 2006 by Mikhail Bykov in Java  |  Comments[0]

Scott McNealy won the Stanley Keg

I'm playing hockey at Ice Oasis Hockey Club. Yesterday, March 12, 2006, I had a regular game in Sunday afternoon league at 5:45pm. After I played my game I watched 7pm Final game of Sunday evening league between two good teams: Green vs Yellow (I mean jersey colors). Green team had a lot of good players that I know, one of them was my good friend, General Manager of Ice Oasis, John Baldwin.

But definitely, yellow team played much better. They showed very interesting hockey strategy and played as a team. And number "14" in yellow team looked really great on the ice. He moved the puck with confidence quickly and accurately both forehand and backhand and did perfect passes! Guess, who was number "14"? Yes, Scott McNealy. His team won the best trophy of our hockey club - Stanley Keg. Congratulations!


On this picture Scott is the second from the right in upper row.

About Scott:

Scott McNealy is the well-known Chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim.

Posted at 10:56AM Mar 13, 2006 by Mikhail Bykov in Hockey  |  Comments[0]

Billionaires in Russia

Many people try to get to be rich using different way. Some people buy stocks, some create interesting ideas and open companies, some have very good results in sport. I'm always interested what's going on in my home country these days. This time I found some info that I want to share.

Recently I've looked at Russian financial magazine and found a list of top-720 rated billionaires in Russia. The article in Russian language you may find here. Sure, the reachest man in Russia is Roman Abramovich, owner of the soccer club "Chelsea" in Great Britain.

Number 1 Roman Abramovich, 538,2 billion of roubles or $18.700 million dollars
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He is a well-known businessman in Russia, but I don't know him personally. So I continued to look through the list.

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Number 544 Alexander Ladan, 1.2 billion roubles or $40 million dollars
Number 545 Vadim Sukharev, 1.2 billion roubles or $40 million dollars

These two guys were my students when I did my graduate studies at university and used to teach Math and Computer Science at Scientific Study Center in Russia. Now they are owners of a big food company in Siberia. To compare, a former NHL player, the general manager of hockey Olympic team Russia has the same amount of money:

Number 551 Pavel Bure, 1.2 billion roubles or $40 million dollars
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I haven't find more Russian NHL players in this list. Ok. Let's continue to look.

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Number 645 Andrey Bekarev, 1 billion roubles or $35 million dollars

I studied together with this guy at Physics-Mathematics School and Novosibirsk University. Now he is co-owner of two banks in Russia.

Glad to hear the people I know really well have great success stories in their lives.

Posted at 03:23PM Mar 10, 2006 by Mikhail Bykov in General  |  Comments[1]

Win a small gift with Sun Logo!!!

Please, enter to participate in my Sun Studio Best Comment contest!

Rules:

Eligibility: This contest is open to all people/companies, except Sun Employees. Former Sun Employees are eligible. You may post as many comments as you want about Sun Studio product in a comment section for this blog. However, only one comment per contact e-mail address will be considered for the contest. The deadline is May 1st 2006.

Prize: The contest winner will receive a small free gift with Sun Logo by mail.

Decisions:: I will be the judge to determine the best comment, but have a right to consult with my Sun colleagues if necessary. Entries are judged on the basis of utility factor. For example, if you could provide comments with good answers to the questions below, it could significantly increase your chances to win.

1. For what purposes do you use Sun Studio? Is it useful?
2. How do you like it? What is good, what should be improved?
3. Have you had any chance to look at the similar software produced by different company? Is Sun Studio better? If worse, why?
4. Do you have any recommendations how to improve Sun Studio?
5. What do you think about user interface and performance?
6. Do you believe the quality of Sun Studio is well enough?
7. Will you recommend Sun to your partners or anyone else?

Fees: There are no entry fees, no subsidy payments, and no purchases of any kind required to enter and win the contest.

Notification: A prize winner will be notified by e-mail and posted on my blog.

Q. How does the contest work?
Just post your comments to this blog about Sun Studio. Please, check my previous blog to find where to download Sun Studio.

Good luck!

Posted at 01:24PM Mar 09, 2006 by Mikhail Bykov in Sun Studio  |  Comments[2]

Useful links

I'd like to post some useful links for Sun Studio Customers.

Get the Sun Studio software here: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/sun_studio/index.html
Sun Studio patches: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/patches/index.html
Sun Studio blogs: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/community/weblogs/index.html
Boost blog: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sga

Each customer can leave me comments related to Sun Software.

Posted at 05:02PM Mar 07, 2006 by Mikhail Bykov in Sun Studio  |  Comments[0]

Misha's Blog

Finally I wanted to post something here to test. Sun is a great company!

Posted at 04:12PM Aug 17, 2005 by Mikhail Bykov in General  |  Comments[0]