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Sun Microsystems is a computer company, bought by Oracle in January 2010. It is most famous for its line of computers based on its own SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system and the invention of the Java platform.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services and that created the programming language, and the Network File System (NFS). Sun significantly evolved several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC Processors, Thin Client Computing, and virtualized computing. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. At its height, Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.

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

http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.htm

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sparc assembly and the %y register

I am currently working with a sparc computer and I am trying to know if a number is prime or not. here is a part of the code : mov 0,%y mov 3, %l1 nop nop nop sdiv %l1,2,%l3 …
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what is Sun VM's equivalent option to IBM VM's -Xcheck:jni:alwayscopy?

what is Sun VM's equivalent option to IBM VM's -Xcheck:jni:alwayscopy ?
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Why isn't manager attribute changing on distinguished name modification in Sun Directory Server 6.3?

I have a problem with manager attribute in Sun Directory Server. I set this attribute for a user in the directory, e.g. cn=testmanager,dc=test,dc=com and when I change manager's dn this change is not propagated in manager attributes. For example: I…
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Difference in transit time for the Sun

Executing this code fragment: import ephem oma=ephem.Observer() oma.lat='50.7975189' oma.lon='4.3579155' oma.elevation=114.43 oma.epoch=ephem.now() sun=ephem.Sun(oma) print "object transit time: ",sun.transit_time print "observer next transit time:…
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planning for oracle takeover of sun - farewell mysql?

Now that the shareholders have voted and oracle will be taking over SUNW, does anyone have any facts about the implication for mysql users? If you don't have facts, I suppose conjecture would be interesting as well (but please label it so). I was…
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Why does one of these programs work when the other doesn't?

I recently finished a project in which I was to write a program to "attack" a SUN Sparc "server" and cause a buffer overflow. The goal was to launch /bin/ksh from inside of the running "server", basically. Eventually I got it working, but for what I…
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Trouble Deploying App From Tomcat to Sun Java Web Server 7...and I'm a .NET guy :(

I am trying to deploy an application that was developed in MyEclipse using Tomcat (originally 5.5 but works with 7) to our demo server (Sun Java Web Server 7). Unfortunately all of the people that had designed the application have left the company.…
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Having problems making AWS ElasticBeanstalk work with Sun JDK

In my application I need the tomcat to be powered by SunJDK. But the default AWS EBS AMI comes with OpenJDK. So I wanted to change this to Sun JDK. But this simplistic task is turning out to be not-so-simple. Here is what I did - On the EC2…
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Signing a jar with WTK via ant task

Is there a way to sign an Jar for a JavaMe / j2me aplicattion, using Sun WTK via an ant task? examples, or tutorials links would be appreciated.
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Position of the sun: equation of time: what sort of number is this?

When attempting to calculate the equation of time using the U.S. Naval Observatory's algorithm, I end up with the value "300.4580026457396". But what sort of number is this? The value I'm aiming for is 10:23 on 1 Oct 2011 12:00 (+01:00). Here's how…
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Could Jconsole be used to monitor IBM JDK?

Could JConsole be used to monitor IBM JDK? I want to know which Garbage Collection tool is applied Sun JDK and IBM JDK, and it's free.
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OpenBoot client program load address and

While browsing the web and looking for stuff about the OpenBoot, and SPARCv9 processors, I saw that any client program is loaded by the OpenBoot at 0x4000[1]. Why is this the address used. Also if i try to do a dump on an actual sparc machine i get…
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Where can I find the linker(ld) in Sun Solaris Studios 12.2?

At the moment I am using for linking purposes the pre-installed linker on my SPARC machine in the following directory: /usr/ccs/bin/ld I wanna compile my application with the Sun Studios Compiler 12.2 and so I would also like to use the linker that…
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Use of JPEGImageDecoder on Android platform

I'm trying to use JPEGImageDecoder interface on my android application, but my application stops unexpectedly. the following code snippet: import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec; import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageDecoder; InputStream in =…
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Strange file upload behvaiour between Sun java and Oracle's using SwingWorker and HttpClient-4.1.1

We are modifying feng office (an open source, group-ware in PHP, Apache and MySQL). We are trying to implement the multiple file upload functionality. This is the flow: (1) User clicks on a button (in a web page), a JNLP is downloaded (2) which…
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