The company I'm gigging for now has an iPad to use to test our software on. The software works fine, but I was curious how the thing worked with other stuff, too. I don't mean this as a serious review, but just a hands-on test and some observations to sh… more »

I've got an old Sun Blade 100 workstation that I've been using as a web and application server and file store since I bought it in 2000. At the time, it was the biggest (1.6GB RAM) and just about fastest (500MHz RISC CPU) machine in the joint. Today, I'v… more »

The new Hibernate v3.5 has been released (on March 31). Among other things, integrated annotations, improved second-level caching, and better JDK6 support. I wonder if they finally got around to fixing the bug I found.I know what I'll be doing starti… more »

While checking on something else today, I noticed a peculiarly high amount of failed login attempts from a couple of similar IP addresses. Querying the last few days' logs I found that this has been happening from some time from a range of IP address… more »