Archive for the Category: macOS (Mac OS X)

Mozilla Firefox 41.0 Released

September 24, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v41.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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Bug in MQ V8.0 for Getting Messages in a Group

August 20, 2015 Roger Lacroix

IBM Support has posted a bug report that may affect some Universal File Mover (UFM) users. Title: IT09814: IBM MQ V8.0: Applications cannot get messages that were put to a queue as a group. Error description: In IBM MQ v8.0 an application that reads from a queue can fail to get messages that are put […]

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A Better MD Class than IBM’s MQMD Class

August 14, 2015 Roger Lacroix

This is a follow up to my blog posting last week titled: Java MQMD class Weirdness. After beating my head against the wall, I gave up on the ‘com.ibm.mq.headers.MQMD’ class and went back to my own MD (Message Descriptor) class. At least I know it works. 🙂 The reason I originally created my MD class […]

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Mozilla Firefox 40.0 Released

August 11, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v40.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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Java MQMD class Weirdness

August 5, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I’m trying to use the MQMD class in a Java application and I’m getting weird results. I tested it with both MQ JAR files from v7.5.0.2 and v8.0.0.2 with JVM of v1.7.0. Note: All of my testing was done in ‘client mode’ (not bindings mode). The first odd thing is that MQMD class is in […]

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LibreOffice 5.0 Released

August 5, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Document Foundation has just released LibreOffice v5.0. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/08/05/libreoffice-5-0-stands-out-from-the-office-suite-crowd/ LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it’s available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux […]

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SQLite v3.8.11 Released

July 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.11. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 39.0 Released

July 3, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v39.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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New: Universal File Mover v1.2.1

June 29, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v1.2.1. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create […]

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Apple to Open Source Swift

June 8, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Today at WWDC 2015, Apple announced that it will open source its Swift language: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=29 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/apple-open-sources-swift/ And the best part of the announcement, is that Linux will be supported. As SNL’s church lady would say “Well, isn’t that SPE-CIAL?”. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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