i came across this site only today …
… has a good collection of videos on Ubuntu
i dont how many have you noticed the significance of versioning the Ubuntu releases and the release dates
here is what i noticed…
Ubuntu Release Name Version Year and month of release
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Feisty Fawn 7.04 2007 April
Edgy Eft 6.10 2006 October
Dapper 6.06 2006 June
… last week i downloaded Feisty beta and installed in my VMWare .
I was curious to know whats new in Feisty , so i couldn wait anymore till the release date and upgraded to Feisty…
…first thing i was looking for was the 3D Desktop effects thats just a click away in Feisty…
… i didnt notice the glossy blue theme in Edgy , but in Feisty that was the first thing i saw in Themes configuration…
…beryl is not installed by default as i was expecting, but it is available for installation using Add/Remove programs util , without having to edit sources.list…
Whenever i write code for database connection , i use to wonder why i have to load a jdbc driver with Class.forName(<jdbcDriverName>). why shouldn the api do this for us , coz its the common thing everyone does.
Finally JDBC 4.0 helped…
if JDBC 4.0 is used , we need not load the JDBC driver , since the api does this for us , provided the driver is in classpath.
and some more explanation about the new features of JDBC 4.0 is available here
i havent tried this api yet and so i have some queries ,
like ….
what if there are two or more jdbc drives in the classpath , which one will be loaded … and so on
will update more about this api , once i finish my experiments ….
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