Mar 21, 2003
Printemps

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Move over T68, the Sony Ericsson T610 is here!

David — Trackbacks enabled for blojsom 1.6.

Jeremy — The Facts... Sort of.

Girl Scouts: Just Say No to E-Commerce.

Tablet PC roundup. Lengthy PC World survey of the field of Tablet PCs.

First Non-American to Head ICANN. Australian Paul Twomey.

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Russ — Temptation Strikes: M$ Offers to Send Me to Mobius.

Apache Tomcat 4.1.24 Stable Released.

Joi — Technorati Current Events.

Cedric — EJBGen 2.12 released.

Apple launches new student Web site.

Trio accused of porn scam. Bilking thousands of consumers out of $230 million US in an Internet pornography scheme.

Jakarta Commons HTTP Client 2.0 Alpha 3, an intermediate alpha release.

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Chris — Fun with classloaders.

Joey — What I Don't Like About the Java Plugin.

Cedric — SWT and consistent look and feel.

O'Reilly: Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 3.

O'Reilly publishes “Mac OS X Hacks”.

iGo Pitches Bluetooth projector.

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Dominic — Compressing web content with Servlets and Filters. Tomcat 4.1 has a Filter (in the examples directory) that does just that.

Simon — Refactoring : Improving the design of existing code.

Cedric — JBoss and Open Source.

Costin — A nice howto for apache2+jk2.

Quartz 1.0.7, an enterprise-class job scheduler for integration with stand-alone java applications and full-blown J2EE applications.

PMD 1.0.4, a Java source code analyzer.

Scam casts doubt on eBay's anti-fraud software. “The red flags in this case were all over the place.”

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Sun's J2SE Client Developer Survey.

Matt — DBUnit has released version 1.5.

Chris — Yahoo's redirect domain.

Oops...new WWDC date conflicts with MacHack.

AT&T Wireless to offer Smartphones. AT&T Wireless will be the first carrier to make them available in the US.

Some Sites Temporarily Suspend Ads. Some websites have decided that it's not appropriate to be showing ads as the war gets underway.

Werner — Profiling tools.

Dominic — JBoss, Tomcat, Apache setup guides.

Ben — Base64 encoders / decoders.

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Dave — Denial-Of-Service holes in JDK 1.4.1_01.

Fred — Jack Shirazi's JavaPerformanceTunning Site.

Ben — iTunes agogo.

It's official: SONICblue files for Chapter 11.

Book Review: C++ Templates: The Complete Guide.

Pocket PC Display Option for the WSI InFlight Cockpit Weather System Now Available.

miniLogger, a very small (4 classes and a 10KB jar) and easy to use logger.

Ian — Syndic8 Offering RSS Chapter Previews.

WebObjects 5.2.1 update posted.

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Russ — FUDility: Microsoft Goes Hardcore About Mobile Services.

Fred — Open Letter ot Sun Concering J2ee 1.4 Compliance Tetsing.

Steven — Open Source uptake in Belgium.

Book Review: Red Hat Linux 8 Bible.

WWDC moved to June 23-27 to show “Panther”.

How to capture, clean, and compress video. Part one of Ars Technica's guide to capturing, cleaning, and compressing video.

1-inch 1.5GB hard drive. Tiny new 1-inch 1.5 GB hard drive from Cornice that costs about half as much as Hitachi's 1GB Microdrive.

AT&T Wireless, Cingular roam in harmony. Roaming rates described only as “low”.

Dealtime Agrees to Buy Epinions. Dealtime, a Web site for comparing prices, has agreed to buy Epinions, a site that lets users write and read product reviews.

Hackers claim NSA breach. Hackers claim to have compromised a computer at the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland.

LookSmart searches for volunteer PCs. LookSmart is hoping to spin a small acquisition into a big project that will use distributed computing to improve its Web search results.

Laszlo — 24-hour Programming Contest.

Lance — Using Custom Taskdefs.



On March 21, 1980 — U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.