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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Net firms in music pirates deal

24 Thursday Jul 2008

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According to the BBC News the largest ISPs have agreed to start clamping down file sharers with people being warned and then potentially having their either slowed down or cut off.  This includes Carphone Warehouse who originally had declined to tow the line as far as the BPI was concerned. 

The concerning thing is that there appears to be no means to dispute an accusation of file sharing. For example, if they pickup on a transfer of music that I legitimately own from my home PC to my work machine over the Internet how I can defend myself?

It will also be interesting to see if people start to migrate their Internet access away from the major players to smaller ISPs who are not currently party to the agreement.

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How portable is Java?

23 Wednesday Jul 2008

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The title is a bit of a trick question – if the JVM meets all the tests to qualify being called Java then it is portable.  However the website  JavaSpecialists  has a series of brilliant  articles about some of the depths of Java, with a rather interesting article called ‘Law of Cretan Driving’ which looks at the way 64 bit value are handled (such as long) within the JVM.  The article points out that it is not mandatory for the JVM to ensure that the bytes that are used to represent a long can not be manipulated by separate threads at anyone time. That is to say that any 64bit primitive such as a long is not guaranteed to be thread safe.  However problem is that primitive data types are generally considered by developers to be atomically safe – which isn’t necessarily the case. So we can find that a java application which is theoretically portable may actually not port.

Java Standard – http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#17876

 

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A Whole Load Of Free Downloads

22 Tuesday Jul 2008

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 XFm the British Radio station have got a page of free downloads ranging from Unkle’s remix of their song that has been included on the new X Files film soundtrack, through a new live Verve track along with a lot of other music in between.  To find more go to A Whole Load Of Free Downloads – Xfm

 

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Paul Westerberg – $0.49 album – sort of

22 Tuesday Jul 2008

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Paul Westerberg (solo artists and former key member of The Replacements) has released a new album with with a price tag of forty nine cents (twenty six pence).  Although iTunes has not cooperated with this pricing other online vendors such as amazon.com have.  To help with the licensing the album – all 43 minutes & 55 seconds is a single track.  This strategy has generated a fair bit of activity on the web for Paul with  lots of sites large and small blogging about it.  The initial release was US only, but today the track has become available to the rest of the world via Tunecore.com.  The fun things was that once I’d downloaded the track, I got an email on behalf of Paul that included the statement:

*A note from Paul:*
“WARNING: DO NOT LISTEN WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE. THIS PRODUCT  IS NOT FAULTY – ALL SOUNDS ARE INTENTIONAL AND VALID AS A WORK OF ART.”

 

PaulWesterberg.net also has details of the track listing here.

 

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Tori Amos bootlegs go main stream

22 Tuesday Jul 2008

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The official bootleg series originally only available through one of Tori Amos’ site (http://toribootlegs.com/) that had been recorded over recent tours have gone main stream with the bootlegs being available through iTunes (UK and US) and other download stores over the next few weeks.  This does mean that the bootlegs aren’t likely to be cheap to download.

 

In addition to this Tori has continued to plunder her live recordings catalogue with the release of live recordings from Montreux festival in 1991 and 1992. These recordings will reflect Tori around the time of the release of the amazing Little Earthquakes album.  The release will be both as CD and DVD on September 22nd in the UK and Europe and a week later in the US.  Spinner (part of AOL) also has information about this release here.

  • Amazon Link here
  • Tori Amos official site here.
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Amazing Skyscraper Photography

18 Friday Jul 2008

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I came across some amazing photography, I saw a version of the image below in a magazine news letter.  The picture below is a genuine shot of the Dubai skyline taken from the Burj Tower which is being constructed. Once the Burj is complete it will be the world’s tallest building at around 800 metres, that is twice the height of the Empire State Building.  It is worth keeping in mind that the oil princes in Dubai are competing with each other for the tallest and most elegant tower blocks.

Look carefully at the clouds to the left of the buildings, the cloud is blowing in from the right and you can see how the buildings are breaking up the cloud and creating ‘shadows’.

 

This photo was taken by a guy called Jack Frost who is a seriously talented photographer and has lots more amazing photography here and blog here.

 

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SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM

17 Thursday Jul 2008

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  SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM is the latest evolution in the integration between jBPM which forms a crucial element in the orchestration of JBoss’ SOA (Service Orientated Architecture) stack.  We’ve produced some video clips complete with commentary together that show the core parts of the SeWhy for JBoss jBPM along with looking at SeeWhy in the broader context of BI (Business Intelligence) and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring). The SeeWhy page here has both low res streaming versions of the videos and downloadable high res versions.

If you’re interested in work flow and how you can monitor and measure its activity both in terms of IT operational performance and in the business context then the three clips will be ten minutes well spent.

 

Useful links …

  • SeeWhy Real Time Business Intelligence – SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM.
  • jBPM at JBoss.org

 

Technorati tags: jBPM, SOA, Service Orientated Architecture, JBoss, BPM, BAM, BI, Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Orchestration, SeeWhy, Realtime BI

Paul Weller – Live EP

17 Thursday Jul 2008

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image With Paul Weller having participated in the iTunes festival in London this year, there has inevitably been an iTunes exclusive EP announced that was released on Monday.  The EP features six tracks:

  1. Peacock Suit
  2. From the Floorboards Up
  3. All I Wanna Do (is Be With You)
  4. Out of the sinking
  5. Invisible
  6. Sea Spray

Initial comments on iTunes don’t look too promising though – the suggestion being aside from only a small part of the whole gig that the recording is extremely clinical in nature.

 

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Another free song from Coldplay

16 Wednesday Jul 2008

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To celebrate the start of their North American tour Coldplay are giving away another song from their website called Death Will Never Conquer – to download it you need to provide an email address on the coldplay site.

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Note that the track is pretty sort and simple with pretty much Chris Martin performing solo at a piano.  The track is also only 128kbps.

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RA DIOHEA_D – HOU SE OF_C ARDS

16 Wednesday Jul 2008

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Radiohead’s latest video is certainly gaining a lot of attention, purely because of the fact that it was shot without any cameras.  The end result is amazing. As you can see …

 

 

But having an engineering background I found the short video clip about how the video was made, just as intriguing…

 

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