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 Editor's Daily BlogEverybody Knows This Is NowherePosted by invalidname on April 14, 2008 at 06:48 AM | Comments (1)When the DSL provider's lights go out I was traveling last week, and when you get home from a long trip, there's always that sensation of "OK, how badly did the house degrade in my absence?" You know the deal: weeds popping up on the front lawn, four spots of cat barf in the basement, milk in the fridge that's gone bad (wish we'd remembered to throw it out before leaving), and a bunch of messages on the answering machine. Oh, and maybe the DSL isn't working. So, you bounce the router and/or the DSL modem, or assume it's just a short outage and figure it'll be back in the morning. That's where I was Saturday morning, still with no DSL. So I called the company, and got the "all circuits are busy" message. And again. And, in fact, the next five times I tried. And it started to occur to me that this might be a good old fashioned, dot-bomb-era ISP implosion. So I used the iPhone to Google my way over to the DSL Reports forum thread where everyone else was complaining, freaking out, reporting on alternative providers or, of course, sowing mischief by pretending to be representatives of the ISP.
So, it's Monday, and I'm waiting for a new provider to send me a new DSL modem (mine's an antique that I'm not sure I can configure for their network) and get set up. In the meantime, I'm borrowing the neighbors' wifi (with their permission), having turned my tower to point the antenna towards their house, getting my reception up from one bar to two. I'm still not sure I'd trust an And here I thought that was going to be an excuse for having a short blog today. In Java Today, Ethan Nicholas has posted a new SDN article Introducing Java 6 update 10. He writes, "don't be fooled by its unassuming name: the upcoming Java 6 update 10 is a very different animal than the updates that preceded it. Java 6u10 pushes the envelope by adding more new features and functionality than in any previous Java programming language update release, including many that have been a long time coming." The article covers 6u10's major features, including the Java Kernel, the new Java Plug-In, the Java Deployment Toolkit, Nimbus look-and-feel, patching improvements, and more. The Java User Groups Community is glad to promote JUG Events, a web application to handle community events for your JUG, created by the JUG Padova (Italy) and tested during the last months by several JUGs all around the world. JUG Events is also integrated with our international JUG Map, created by the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (USA). These are two great examples of collaboration and creativity; check them out! The latest edition of the JavaTools Community newsletter is out, with tool-related news from around the web, announcements of new projects and recent graduations (SigTest and Eval), and a Tool Tip on managing your application tests. This week's Spotlight reprises last Friday's announcement of the JavaOne 2008 Student Program. Are you a college student? Interested in Java? Want to get into JavaOne for free? The Student Program, hosted by Sun's Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos, is a five-day program to attend the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences in San Francisco, May 5 - 9, 2008. Participants will have full access to the conference, including general sessions, technical sessions, birds-of-a-feather sessions (BoFs), specially developed Java University classes, a coupon for a free Java Certification Class, access to the JavaOne pavilion (come see us at the java.net Community Corner), t-shirts, lunches, the AfterDark party with Smashmouth, and more. Space for this program is limited, so interested students should download the registration PDF right away. In today's Weblogs, Bruno Ghisi has some ideas for Starting with Sun SPOT using NetBeans 6.1. "If you do not have a Sun SPOT, do not be bored, you can still have a lot of fun! In this entry, I gonna explain how to start programming the world using NetBeans 6.1!" In RepaintManager's side effect, Alexander Potochkin describes "a little-known side effect of setting a custom RepaintManager or using RepaintManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled() method" Finally, Arun Gupta offers advice for Getting Started with Grails on GlassFish. "Starting today, I plan to start publishing content on Grails and talk about how GlassFish v3 is turning out to be a home for several scripting languages - Ruby/JRuby/Rails, JavaScript/Phobos, Groovy/Grails and more to be added."
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