Re: go back to gzip!

1999-03-30 Thread David Wall
It was a bit rude as written, and that's part of the problem with email in general. Sometimes terse statements sound worse than the intended message was to be delivered. While I am really happy with the work that this free software team has been doing, and I appreciate and make good use of their

Re: multi JVM's mem usage in linux?

1999-03-22 Thread David Wall
>Why I ask is that I have tried the above scenario and have found that >having 3 jvm's running uses up almost 3x the memory of having 1 runnning >- leading me to think there is no sharing and wondering how much memory >I'm going to need if I want to have a large number of small >(co-operating) jav

Re: createImage() always returns null

1999-02-14 Thread David Wall
Chris wrote: >is the Panel already visible? > >If not, then show() it before getting a Image! Or just do an addNotify() before...this gets the peers started

Re: Green/Native threads

1999-02-07 Thread David Wall
>This makes me wonder. >AFAIK, according to their definition, threads are supposed to be "lightweight" >processes. >How are linuxthreads actually implemented? ie, do we get the real lightweight >process that we are supposed to get by the pthreads definitions? >The descriptions seen in the discussi

Re: RMI hangs on remote calls

1999-01-21 Thread David Wall
Thanks, Do you know how to contact the rmi-users mailing list? I'd like to check them out. I guess I understand RMI's behavior since there's no such thing as a fixed amount of time that a method ought to execute within. It's just a pain when the method you call hangs up. I've been reluctant t

RMI hangs on remote calls

1999-01-21 Thread David Wall
I don't know if this is a Linux-only problem or Java-specific since I run the servers under Linux.   I have a publish-subscribe system that use RMI to "push" events to subscribers by invoking an operation on the subscriber's remote object that they provide when they subscribe for events.   I

Re: Java.Linux.GUI

1998-12-11 Thread David Wall
Most unix-oriented GUIs, including Java, run on TOP of X-windows, just like Java runs on top of MS Windows. David

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread David Wall
>What is the idea of Java? Portable code. If that's all they claim, they will lose, since portable code has existed long before their patent. Now, portable code inside web browser may be different, though some might argue that HTML itself is code that executes inside a browser, so again, such pa

Re: How to getAppletContext when the applet web page is inactive ?

1998-12-04 Thread David Wall
You might be happier trying a regular Java discussion list in comp.lang.java.programmer or the like. But, saying that, my opinion is that I don't like your applet if it runs even if I leave the page. That's like a rogue applet that runs even when I leave the page that is supposed to have the app

Re: FSCKING MAIL LIST

1998-11-28 Thread David Wall
Rather than FSCK this kind of childish behaviour, I think he's more in need of an 'init -6' to clean out his dirty ram...

Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

1998-11-13 Thread David Wall
Have a method, such as stop(), that sets a boolean, and in the thread that's running, have it loop testing if the boolean has been set by stop() or not, and if so, then exit itself. Stopping a thread otherwise is problematic because it is not clear where it was when it was stopped (it's an ugly s

KLGroup Chart date difference between Win98 and Linux

1998-11-05 Thread David Wall
I'm using the KLGroup's Chart product, and when applying the same program to the same data on Windows 98 JDK 1.1.7 and Linux JDK 1.1.6v5 (Intel Redhat 5.1), the Linux chart looks very similar, but the time axis (showing dates) is always one day earlier on Linux than the actual data shows. It look

Re: Java CORBA

1998-11-05 Thread David Wall
>What's Orbix web? It's Iona's implementation of CORBA for Java. >Is there a orb build-in JDK1.2? Yes, but it's expected to be quite basic and not as powerful as products like OrbixWeb, not to mention issues related to speed and reliability (OrbixWeb has been available for a long time, so it's