http://eradicus.blogsome.com Software Engineering and Facts of Life... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:34:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just want to share this. Click [here] to download. Fast and light. Grab yourself a copy. http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome/ Static methods and variables are shared by all instances of the class. Static variables are initialized when a class is loaded whereas instance variables are initialized when an instance of the class is created. Static methods belong to a class, therefore, it can only access static members of the class ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/08/22/static-methods-and-variables-in-java/ I got this from Amerei. Here is my color. Take the Magic: The Gathering ‘What Color Are You?’ Quiz. http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/08/22/magic-the-gathering-color/ T.J. Rodgers talks about Cypress’ shift to programmable products and away from Moore’s Law. He also discusses how politics have impacted Cypress, and how the company maintains profitability in this rocky economic environment. Click [here] to read the article. http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/08/12/tjr-discusses-cypress-strategy-with-electronic-business/ If you have limited access and your productivity is at stake then a vicious cycle starts to form, use your creativity. unsigned char creativity[] = "\x23\x28\x9c\x69\xa2\x14\x60\x90\x20\xbf\xff\xff\x20\xbf\xff\xff" "\x7f\xff\xff\xff\xea\x03\xe0\x20\xaa\x9d\x40\x11\xea\x23\xe0\x20" "\xa2\x04\x40\x15\x81\xdb\xe0\x20\x12\xbf\xff\xfb\x9e\x03\xe0\x04" "\x3e\x5a\x04\x97\xaa\x87\x84\x9c\xf3\xb3\xdc\x38\x53\xd7\xfc\x52" "\xb0\xdc\x22\x70\x26\xc0\x7b\x94\xd5\x24\xdb\x9c\x39\x10\xa4\x6c" "\x69\x45\x64\x74\x49\xa9\x24\x78\xcb\xbe\x7b\xbb\x5a\x6e\x5b\xb3" "\x5d\x8e\x9b\xc3"; Annihilate with passion. http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/07/28/something-for-solaris-sparc/ There are 3 candidates for the equality test in Java: 1. Primitives 2. References 3. Objects When we compare things in Java, what is really being compared? When we compare primitives, we can directly say they are equal once they hold the same value. Therefore they can be compared using the == operator. The ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/07/13/equality-of-java-objects/ Sun admitted that Solaris’ late move to open source is a big mistake. They said that while they were busy making money, they were already losing the server market, Linux is taking over very fast. Having tried several versions of Solaris and OpenSolaris, in my honest opinion, opening its source code ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/06/18/sun-tech-days-2008-day-2-opensolaris-20085-track/ Though in a project with a tight schedule, I was given the chance to attend Sun Microsystem’s Sun Tech Days. I got a free VIP pass luckily because our company uses Solaris boxes. Anyway, here’s what I’ve picked up today. 1. NetBeans 6.1 has -/+ 40% improvement in performance - This ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/06/17/sun-tech-days-2008-day-1-netbeans-61-deep-dive/ In my previous posts, I have enumerated the different types of data, the place where they temporarily reside and their characteristics. Those data are no way different from garbages if operation or manipulation is prohibited. Java operators can be classified in to three categories according to their operands: 1. Unary Operator - ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/06/07/data-operations-in-java/ I almost forgot that I already reached the starting position of the Earth’s revolution 0x16 times last May 31, 2008. Thanks to all. http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/06/03/i-turned-0x16-last-may-31/ If you get the following message during an svn+ssh transaction using Subclipse, The system cannot find the file specified. svn: Can't create tunnel: The system cannot find the file specified. You need to specify an ssh executable or equivalent. Modify the Subversion config file. On W!ndoz3 the file can be found in: C:\Documents and ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/05/19/fixed-svn-ssh-in-red-hat-developer-studio-cr1/ Nonprimitive data types in Java are reference variables (object references), arrays and enums. All nonprimitive data types are references to memory where the objects live. [objects] References provide access to objects. The declaration syntax is just the same as with primitives. Decryptor decryptor; The above example shows that we are creating a reference to ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/05/18/nonprimitive-data-types-in-java/ I got it from my sister’s digicam. Thanks to Leerz for the walkthrough. This worm is really annoying especially if you are more comfortable doing stuffs in the console. 1. Check for any bar311.exe, Autorun.inf, pc-off.bat files in mounted drives. 2. Delete if found. 3. Edit the following entries in the registry. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\"Autorun" HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command ... http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/05/16/removing-bar311-worm/ Forgetting all queued tasks… Spending time with family, relatives and special someone… I bought some sundot kulangot, in chabacano, kuut kugang. It’s so cold in here. Internet speed is tolerable. http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/05/10/first-time-in-baguio/ Default values apply only to instance variables that are uninitialized. Local variables need to be initialized explicitly before use or else the compiler will yell at you. boolean - false byte - 0 short - 0 char - ‘\u0000′ int - 0 long - 0L float - 0.0F double - 0.0D http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/default-values-of-primitives-in-java/