Don't ever shout at Disk Drives...

An interesting phenomenon of shouting at Disk Drives causing I/O latency....

http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency

The Register reports this: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/05/shouty_sun_engineer/

My blog post


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Survey: Do you use JBoss XACML?

I am trying to get a sense of usage of JBoss XACML either as a standalone project or inside JBoss Application Server v5.0. If you are using this project, please choose any of the 3 options. Takes less than 10 seconds.

The survey is available on the Left Hand Column of http://anil-identity.blogspot.com


Reference:

What is JBoss XACML?
Refer to:
https://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-10840

What is Oasis XACML?
Refer to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XACML

Can I use JBossXACML without using the JBoss Application Server?
Of course, it is a standalone project.
Pick your jars from the following two places for the latest version:
http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/security/jboss-xacml/
http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/security/jboss-sunxacml/



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Wikipedia reaches $6million in donations

It is an extremely positive news as we start 2009. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia has announced that Wikipedia has collected $6 million in donations to cover the operating costs for 2009.

A great quote:

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. -- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia

Read this blog post.