Joe Tennies - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Was this article all a mistake? (Score 1) 688

by Joe Tennies on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:04AM (#36981954) Attached to: Was<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET All a Mistake?

Have you looked at the JetBrains IDEs? PyCharm is amazing. IntelliJ IDEA has been the IDE I keep hearing people actually like for Java. I haven't tried the others, but if they are half as good as PyCharm, they're quite good.

Eclipse isn't actually too bad, except that it was over engineered into little components (the Java way). That just tends to leave it pretty slow.

Note: I do not work for JetBrains, just use PyCharm and have really liked it.

European Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Merger 144

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 21, 2010 @11:00AM from the chomp-chomp-chomp dept.

rubycodez writes "The anti-trust body of the EU, the European Commission, has approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, believing competition would be preserved. It saw PostgreSQL as a viable independent alternative to MySQL and that market access to Java would not be restricted. Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year."

Comment Re:Nokia N810/N800 beat both of these (Score 1) 541

by Joe Tennies on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @11:43PM (#28862047) Attached to: Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone

On the other hand, support for either is dead. Maemo 5 drops support for both. Hopefully the community continues some love, but we'll see what happens when the first Maemo 5 device comes out.

Comment Re:Coming to Cydia (Score 1) 541

by Joe Tennies on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @11:40PM (#28862035) Attached to: Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone

There is actually 1 thing missing in your spec list.

Touch screen: Resistive vs Capacitive with multitouch support. iPhone wins big.

I don't actually know it's resistive, but most other HTC stuff is. I use a XV6900 (HTC Vogue) running Android and love it, only thing I really would love would be a capacitive screen. Wouldn't consider an iPhone, but it is a huge selling point.

Submission + - Pimping out a new house

Submitted by

Jason Michael Perry

on Saturday June 02, 2007 @01:57PM

Jason Michael Perry writes: "I just got preapproved to buy some gutted property in New Orleans. A lot of the houses I'm looking at are blank canvases that need new wiring, new walls, the whole nine-yards. i've always dreamed of a high tech house that says my name when I walk in and now is my chance to get a close as i can with current technology. That said, I'm looking for ideas to pimp out a newly renovated house with all the best technology. If you had a blank canvas to start with what would you do? Run CAT-5 or Fiber Optics? Build a closet for servers and A/V equipment? Install a 7.1 speaker system into the living room inside the walls and ceillings? Automated lights and intercom (with support for Apple equipment)? How about applicances, the kitchen, and other spots...what cool tech can I use there? My only rules and requirements are support for the 4 Mac's I have in the house...and resonable support for technology on the fringes... -Jason"

Submission + - Congress members with RIAA pockets.

Submitted by palewook on Friday June 01, 2007 @10:15AM

palewook writes: The Consumerist posted a story containing the contact information of 50 United States Representatives & Senators who accepted RIAA money during their last election campaign. Seems like a good time to let a few people know how you feel about RIAA shills.

Submission + - The Next Super Worm - Analysis of future AJAX Worm (gnucitizen.org)

Submitted by on Thursday May 31, 2007 @10:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: I will start my discussion by linking to XSSED.com. If you don't know what is XSSED.com I would suggest to go and check what it does right now. Are you done? OK! To summarize XSSED.com has the largest archive of real, fully working, XSS vulnerabilities available today. They even have a list of XSS vulnerabilities that are found in websites ranked 500 and bellow according to ALEXA. We are talking about high profile websites here people.

Why this database is interesting to attackers? Well, obviously, attackers can use it to phish users and steal important/sensitive information. In a very typical scenario, the attacker will grab a few of these XSS vectors, develop exploits for them, and send them to as many victims as possible. Of course the situation is quite grim. However, it is a lot worse then that.

Today it is so easy to create an epidemic infection that is totally based on XSS. If an unaware user visits a page that contain malicious JavaScript which recreates a behaviour similar to the one that a described above, they can be exploited on every single domain they have visited during their entire session.

"The Next Super Worm" is quite interesting article that show the characteristics and behavioural patterns of the next generation AJAX worms. The article is based on a research PDP presented at OWASP and there are some really cool POCs that can be found over GNUCITIZEN.

Submission + - Fedora 7 Released!

Submitted by Vertana on Thursday May 31, 2007 @10:42AM

Vertana writes: After being developed for 6 months, the Fedora Project today has released the 7th release of Fedora (formerly Fedora Core). New in this release are Fast User Switching, the merging of the repositories (Core and Extras are now all in Core), faster package management, as well as more robust hardware detection. Read more about it here.

Submission + - Democracy Player received $100K grant from Mozilla (mozilla.com)

Submitted by puntloos on Thursday May 31, 2007 @10:25AM

puntloos writes: The Open Source Internet TV Platform 'Democracy' has just received a $100 Grant from the Mozilla Foundation. Democracy is a combination of ways to view and download media to your desktop in an intuitive way, built on top of the ever-popular VLC video player.

Submission + - Microsoft unveils new device called Surface

Submitted by GnarlyDoug on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @12:01PM

GnarlyDoug writes: According to MSNBC, Microsoft has a new device called Surface . It is in effect a very large touch-screen device built into a large work surface, and it looks like Bill Gates sees this as the future of computing. What do you think?

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