iTunes Copy protection "Cracked"

The breaking news was "iTunes Copy Protection "cracked""
The person who cracked it is none other than DVD Jon
Now, I am wondering what is Apple going to do about this. I haven't read any news about Apples reaction on this yet. But I strongly feel that noone can stop music piracy. If a person can play song on a device, he can create a copy of it by 100 different ways. At the least, he can put the output jack in to a hi-fi stereo recorder and create an excellent copy. Or one can develop programs that will grab data from sound outpt device on your computer and create audio files.
Now if he is free to do that or not is a different question.

Highway of death

Watched the movie Jarhead to night. It is about US marines at first gulf war. Typical Hollywood war movie. But the main theme is disturbing - a soldier (human being) at war just wants to kill something - he and his group is sad and dejected that they didn't get their "kill" - the air force and other military groups stole it from them.Excellent US marine!
The movie has a scene that reminded me of the "Highway of death" - a shameful atrocity that Bush sr. had succeeded in hiding from rest of the world. I remember hearing about that in my college days. Attacking withdrawing troops!! If I say that is animosity, even animals would feel ashamed. Hang your head down in shame you rats! You are not doing any good in Gulf war 2 either.

My Experiment with the "Extreme Swing app"

"The Extreme Swing App is" Aerith

This application for sure showcases the power and features in Java2D in JSDK 1.6.
Setting up this project on Netbeans is very simple, given that you satisfy the dependencies properly. I will write the steps in next blog - assuming someone would read some day.
I tried setting this up in my Ubuntu Dapper with lastest Java and a little old swingx library.

Aerith ran, fetched pictures from my flickr account, but apparently due to bugs in ATI Linux drivers, the "eye candy" did really not work. Hm!

Google code search

Hey! you all lazy programmers....google is here to save your day.
If you search around internet for code, google code search would be a your best tool.
Apparantly, when indexing webpages, google indexes things that looks like source code and makes them available under code search. Good idea and very useful for programmers.

Meh!

Tiger - Java SE 5
Mustang - Java SE 6
Dolphin - Java SE 7

Sun has decided not to use cool animal names anymore !
Whatever! meh!

The Departed

Watched the latest Scorsese flick 'The departed' this weekend.
Man! this movie is a 100% entertainer. A gangster suspense story, with almost everybody in their best form. The movie keeps you drawn till the last scene. I dont want to say too much detail and spoil the suspense. Enjoy it yourself!