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Profiling Performance of Web Applications on Local Tomcat, Sun Java System Application Server / GlassFish or JBoss - Andy Jackson

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And yes, he made the "shouldn't be doing it in the first place" remark, but it didn't seem to me that he was implying "...and therefore we are cavalier with your privacy," but instead was suggesting that in the event of court orders and the like there was a limit to the degree of privacy protection that Google was prepared to offer. To me that's quite different from saying it doesn't matter. - Andy Jackson

Is it the same way that the 4 billion floppies manufactured by 2003 (according to one site which I can no longer find, how ironic!) and the 200 million Zip discs manufactured in 1999 alone (according to that same site) were handled? My 15 years of experience tells me that only a fraction of a percent might hav - Andy Jackson

On Wednesday, using Google Wave, a group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators composed and issued a Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights on the Internet, stating that 'Copyright should not be placed above citizens' fundamental rights to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.' - Andy Jackson

He showed a diagram that he referred to as an arc of knowledge, which demonstrated that one would normally start with an idea or hypothesis, then do an experiment that would produce some data that would either be consistent with the hypothesis or not. The other side of the arc addresses where those ideas come – the data, which is the starting point for many within the audience at IDCC 09. This is data-driven science, when hypotheses are generated from the data, compared to the hypotheses-generate science, which he admits the biological community is quite reliant on. As we move towards more data-driven science we encounter the problem of storing not just the data itself so we can make use of it, but also the knowledge generated by the data – a theme that would be picked up by Mark Birkin in his later talk. - Andy Jackson

Closing the Digital Curation Gap Project - Andy Jackson

To set up cron on Cygwin, first install the cron package with the Cygwin installer. Then install cron as a service. - Andy Jackson

xorriso copies file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects out of ISO 9660 filesystems. - Andy Jackson

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I’ve struggled in the past with what constitutes an Information Resource in the context of Web Architecture, Linked Data and practical digital library applications such as the National Digital Newspaper Project I work on at the Library of Congress. So it was reassuring to see the issue come up a few months ago during a review of the effort to revise the HTTP specification (RFC 2616). It would be a major effort to summarize the entire conversation here. However an interesting sub-discussion circled around the idea of normalizing the language in the Architecture of the World Wide Web and RFC 2616 with respect to Resources. Well into the multi-month thread Tim Berners-Lee offered up a very helpful, historical recap of the “what is a resource” issue , in which he said: - Andy Jackson

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pondents when they started to develop OS/FS and we asked for the year they started - Andy Jackson

63 explaining that the post mortem found a massive and previously undiagnosed tumour in her chest - Andy Jackson

Groklaw is a good example of a single subject reporting. What good news aggr - Andy Jackson

Every time you buy a gadget that can write FAT32, you get to pay a crappy - Andy Jackson

The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework. - Andy Jackson

Rawr, a packaging and deployment tool, is all you'll ever need for your JRuby projects. With Rawr, a simple, pre-generated configuration file turns your code into an executable jar, a .exe for Windows, and a .app for OS X. - Andy Jackson

OpenERP - Andy Jackson

Library to support Unicode and ASCII (byte string) conversions. - Andy Jackson

Portable Executable iD? - Andy Jackson

Generative technologies: Technologies like personal computers that have the capacity to produce unprompted, user-driven change. For example, on a PC any person can write code, run that code on a variety of platforms, and share that code with anyone who might want it. In general, generative technologies are useful for performing tasks, adaptable, easy to master, permission-free, and share-able. In the name of security consumers are increasingly moving away from generative technologies like the PC and towards tethered ones like the iPhone. - Andy Jackson

"Trees is a wellknown problem of SQL, but the fact is that SQL can't handle most datastructures and complex relations, only very simple one dimensional ones." - Andy Jackson

Knowledge & Information Management Through Life: a Grand Challenge project - Andy Jackson

Sonar enables to collect, analyze and report metrics on source code. Sonar not only offers consolidated reporting on and across projects throughout time, but it becomes the central place to manage code quality. - Andy Jackson

Loopy was developed as a plug-in for Apache Commons VFS. Currently, it only supports the ISO9660 file system (i.e. .iso files). To use loopy with VFS, simply include the jar on the classpath and access your iso file using the following URL format: iso:/path/to/file.iso. - Andy Jackson

Trust? No. - Andy Jackson