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May
31
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I am inside the ICU at Mayo clinic, just a few hours after my open heart surgery. Steve, my ICU registered nurse, is my eyes and fingers typing this blog. As you can tell by the very fact that I am blogging I am not dead yet.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Nov
19
Posted by Coder.
Slava Ocks, a developer working on SQL Server 2005 within Microsoft, reported similar problems in a blog posting earlier this month.”Our customers observed very interesting behaviour on high-end HT-enabled hardware. They noticed that in some cases when high load is applied SQL Server CPU usage increases significantly but SQL Server performance degrades,” wrote Ocks.Ocks then detailed testing which showed this behaviour where a system thread — in this case one cleaning out blocks of disk cache memory — is running …
May
15
Posted by coder.
This year they’re having 318 BOFs and Sessions in 8 different Tracks…
BEA — 26 talks: 13 BOFs, 13 Sessions
Google — 2 talks: 1 BOF, 1 Session
IBM — No talks???
Sun — 144 Talks: 71 BOFs, 73 Sessions
Oracle — 16 Talks: 5 BOFs, 11 Sessions
Nokia — 11 Talks: 7 BOFs, 4 Sessions
HP — 2 talks: 1 BOF, 2 Sessions
SAP — 2 talks: 1 BOF, 1 Session
Motorola — 5 talks: 2 BOFs, 3 Sessions
JBoss — 6 Talks: 1 BOF, 5 Sessions
Interface21 — 2 …
May
15
Posted by coder.
“I, Microsoft, take you, Sun, to be my partner,
loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know.
I eagerly anticipate the chance to be as admired as you were,
getting to know the force you had become,
and falling in love a little more every day.
I promise to interop, interop and interop with you
through whatever life may bring us.”
2005 will mark the return of Microsoft to JavaOne though they did send a few employees …