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JBoss and Microsoft sign agreement to leverage each other’s technologies?

Microsoft and JBoss have signed an agreeement to be able to maximise the performance of JBoss running on Windows platforms.

I bet no-one could have seen that coming. Only up until a couple of years ago Steve Balmer was foaming at the mouth and pronouncing the Open Source software was a ‘cancer of the software industry’. How times change. First came the Linux lab up at Redmond (who knows what it is called internally – the ‘lab of lost opportunities’?), and now Microsoft are embracing and helping out a serious competitor that develops one of the fastest growing Java Application Servers out there today.

Are Microsoft seeing the light, or are they realizing they can’t continue to run scared, that they have to starting playing in the same game to be able to keep up with changes in industry trends, for example, the widespread adoption of Open Source software in favor of expensive commercial software?

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Microsoft ‘hype machine’ starts for XBox360 launch

Launching any new technology these days is all about the marketing and getting consumers sufficiently hyped up that they’ll buy anything. Microsoft currently have possibly the most obscure marketing page for the upcoming XBox 360 that involves pictures of trees and animated rabbits – it looks pretty neat but doesn’t tell you much about anything. It sounds like its advertising for the launch event for the XBox360, but even that is not clear.

The questions in a short quiz to win the chance to go to what ever it is that this site is about hint that there is a possibility that Microsoft will have a giant inflatable XBox360 in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade this year…

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Setting default routes

To set a default route via a router (192.168.0.1), use the following command:

<code>
route add default gw 192.168.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 eth0
</code>

– this will add a default route via the gateway at 192.168.0.1 for all traffic.

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