hashbangchris

 http://sun.com/ is no more.

http://sun.de still is :-)

I've been setting up Sun Java Identity Manager for a customer for a while.
Meanwhile the European Union agreed on the acquisition of Sun by oracle and Oracle just announced that

• Sun IdM is not a strategic product line
• They will support it until 2014

Since Oracle have their own product, that can be read like "Sun IDM will be very dead, soon".

That's an interesting situation.

I bought a fine piece of American engineering today: A bike with a continuously variable transmission hub, called "NuVinci". I'm wondering when I bought something "regular"last time...
However, the bike has a very nice frame and is very comfortable to ride on, it fits exactly my requirements since I didn't have a bike for about 5 years, when my recumbent bike was stolen.

and guess where again:

What about redirecting the busy-signal or the "no such number"-signal of the telephone-system to an advertising number?
Seems like a good idea:
"The number you have dialed is currently not available. Why not have a little talk on penis-enlargement instead, sir/madam?"

(http://www.heise.de/netze/news/foren/S-Alternativ-koennte-die-T-Com/forum-163005/msg-17122771/read/)

I travel quite too often by plane, but sometimes I'm still lost. For example this evening: We arrived a little late, but I had only carry on luggage, so I hurried to get the airport Bus. Some annoyances
- they don't use the bus symbol (the word 'bus' in a square) on every turn on the path to the busstop, sometimes I had to scout a little
- they use the same symbol for the intra-airport bus as for bus connecting to Munich mainstation. However, these buses start from different stops. It's more a sign that says "if you want to experience a bus in general, follow this sign€
- nobody takes the train from the airport to the mainstation. Otherwise they would have placed a prominent, multilangual sign at the ticketmachines that reads: "From this place to Munich mainstation, buy THIS ticket (it's the >=4 zones ticket) and take trains xyz!"
However, as always in Munich there are dozens of people blocking the ticketmachines, trying to figure out, how to get to the mainstation...

Brains!

—in Transit