Saturday, August 31, 2002

Sky and Telescope - A Jupiter Observing Guide Jupiter has often been referred to as the amateur's planet, and it offers a wealth of opportunities for amateur observers to make substantial contributions to the science of astronomy. All it takes are determination and the effective use of equipment you might already have.
posted by J Slave 8/31/2002

Sky and Telescope - Finding Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in 2002 Once they've emerged from the Sun's glare in April, Uranus and Neptune can be found with binoculars or the smallest of telescopes throughout the rest of the year. They spend 2002 among naked-eye stars of Capricornus, and a quick sweep with binoculars, guided by the charts in this article, should bring most observers right to them. Pluto is another story.
posted by J Slave 8/31/2002

Friday, August 30, 2002

Counterpane Labs: Blowfish

The Blowfish Encryption Algorithm
posted by J Slave 8/30/2002

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Java Cryptography Extension 1.2.2 JavaTM Cryptography Extension 1.2.2
API Specification & Reference
posted by J Slave 8/28/2002

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Documentation-FAQ Documentation-FAQ

Having CVS questions - see Pascal Molli
posted by J Slave 8/27/2002

Monday, August 26, 2002

Sky and Telescope - Comet Hoenig Visits Northern Sky A comet first seen by a German amateur astronomer in July, then lost for five days, is about to become an easy target for small telescopes in the Northern Hemisphere. The nearly tailless object looks like a fuzzy, 10th-magnitude star, slowly making its way from Andromeda into Cassiopeia.
posted by J Slave 8/26/2002

JPL's HORIZONS System The JPL HORIZONS On-Line Solar System Data and Ephemeris Computation Service provides access to key solar system data and flexible production of highly accurate ephemerides for solar system objects (71000 asteroids and comets, 91 natural satellites, 9 planets, the Sun).
posted by J Slave 8/26/2002

Thursday, August 22, 2002

developerWorks: IBM developer solutions | Wireless : Location-based services Have you ever been in your car, at the mall, or outside somewhere and wanted to know right away whether there was a traffic jam ahead, where your spouse was, or how to find the closest bakery? Location-based services, now seen as a key differentiator by wireless carriers and their subscribers, offer all that, and more. This article gives an overview of what location-based services have to offer, and a real-life situation showing how the technology can be applied. Taking advantage of these services can save time and aggravation in our increasingly wireless world.
posted by J Slave 8/22/2002

developerWorks: Java technology : Get started with Castor JDO A growing number of enterprise projects today call for a reliable method of binding Java objects to relational data -- and doing so across a multitude of relational databases. Unfortunately (as many of us have learned the hard way) in-house solutions are painful to build and even harder to maintain and grow over the long term. In this article, Bruce Snyder introduces you to the basics of working with Castor JDO, an open source data-binding framework that just happens to be based on 100 percent pure Java technology.
posted by J Slave 8/22/2002

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Dutch Occultation AssociationThe Dutch Occultation Association promotes observations of celestial occultation phenomena in the Netherlands. Among the most frequently observed events are: occultations of stars and planets by the Moon, occultations of stars by asteroids, and mutual occultations/eclipses of the Jovian and Saturnian's moons. Everyone equipped with even a small telescope, a stopwatch and a ( DCF77 ) time signal receiver can record observations of this nature. The observations are of scientific value !
posted by J Slave 8/21/2002

Sundials Shadows users are forming a large community of sundial lovers. Lot of them have discovered the world of sundials with this web site and are now fond of it, as they say in their messages.
posted by J Slave 8/21/2002

Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Java Cryptography Architecture The Security API is a core API of the Java programming language, built around the java.security package (and its subpackages). This API is designed to allow developers to incorporate both low-level and high-level security functionality into their programs.
The first release of Security API in JDK 1.1 introduced the "Java Cryptography Architecture" (JCA), a framework for accessing and developing cryptographic functionality for the Java platform. In JDK 1.1, the JCA included APIs for digital signatures and message digests
posted by J Slave 8/20/2002

Java Cryptography Extension This document is intended as a companion to the JavaTM Cryptography Architecture (JCA) API Specification & Reference. References to chapters not present in this document are to chapters in the JCA Specification.
The JavaTM Cryptography Extension (JCE) provides a framework and implementations for encryption, key generation and key agreement, and Message Authentication Code (MAC) algorithms. Support for encryption includes symmetric, asymmetric, block, and stream ciphers. The software also supports secure streams and sealed objects.
posted by J Slave 8/20/2002

Monday, August 19, 2002

Qualcomm CDMA Technologies - Integrated Solutions - gpsOne™ Solutions for cdma2000, 1X and 1xEV QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies' gpsOne position location solution offers robust data availability under the most challenging conditions, whether in concrete-and-steel high-rises, convention centers, shopping malls, or urban canyons.

Using a hybrid approach that utilizes signals from the GPS satellite constellation and from CDMA cell sites, the gpsOne solution enhances location services availability, accelerates the location determination process and provides industry-leading accuracy for callers, whether during emergency 911 situations or while using GPS-enabled commercial applications. As long as a call can be placed, wireless callers can rely on the gpsOne solution to provide their location wherever and whenever they need it.
posted by J Slave 8/19/2002

Thursday, August 15, 2002

http://www.verisign.com/developer/xml/index.html
XML Trust Services—four-component suite of open specifications for application developers developed in partnership with industry leaders including Microsoft, Ariba, webMethods, and Netegrity—make it easier than ever to integrate a broad range of trust services into B2B and B2C applications.
XML Key Management Specification (XKMS)
Efficiently integrate digital signatures and encryption.

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Enable portable authentication and authorization.

XMLPay
Provide secure e-commerce payment processing.

Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Provide streamline domain name registration.
posted by J Slave 8/15/2002

Friday, August 09, 2002

jCVS Downloads jCVS II - Release 5.3.2
posted by J Slave 8/9/2002

jCVS Downloads jCVS Servlet - Release 1.0.1
posted by J Slave 8/9/2002

CVSWebCVSWeb is a perl-based frontend for cvs. In the current state the implemented functions are as follows:
browse the repository by tree or by directory
view log messages
view revision trees
checkout files
browse the CVS history
diff revisions
did I forget something?
posted by J Slave 8/9/2002

Friday, August 02, 2002

JCreator

After much searching, I have found the best Java IDE in the world. Its very light, very fast and perfect for day to day Java. It does not do J2EE, etc, hence its very light memory footprint.

JCreator is a powerful IDE for Java. JCreator provides the user with a wide range of functionality such as : Project management, project templates, code-completion, debugger interface, editor with syntax highlighting, wizards and a fully customizable user interface.
posted by J Slave 8/2/2002

n-ary: Java: Hints & Tips: What is FooBar?

You have heard of "snafu" (situation normal - all fouled up)? A related acronym is "fubar" (fouled up beyond all repair). Programmers are always on the alert for nonsensical words to use when illustrating programming concepts. So like "widget" is used to mean a generic manufacturing product, "foobar" (as it is spelled when used in this way) is a generic programming widget. It can be the name of a function, a method, a class, whatever. And when two related names are needed, one can be named "foo" and the other "bar."

Note: actually, the "f" in "fubar" and "snafu" does not really mean "fouled" (same for "rtfm" or any number of cryptic acronyms containing the letter "f"). However, this is the word used when one is speaking (or writing) in polite company
posted by J Slave 8/2/2002