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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1847)	11/23/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 2617

Hey, I have a Linux QA issue for you Thomas. Your job, if you choose to accept it, is finding out what the deal is with Linux (architecturally) and Java. Awhile back James Gosling goes off on Linux having some fundamental flaw with running Java or being a better Java platform. Whatever, it was architectural. He made reference to it in an interview. It was a bit FUDlike, but the point was made and apparently valid. I've been trying to find out what Gosling meant. I posted the question in the LT discussion following Dave W's rant on Netscrape + Java=on on Linux. It (rant) reminded me of the Java on Linux 'lament' of Gosling. I supposed to myself that Dave's wife's problem wasn't so much Netscrape, but Linux itself choking on Java (where Crapware and Solaris don't). I received an answer from one person who said it was probably a big endian/little endian issue, but then that didn't make any sense (even from what little I know about the endian thing). I am REALLY wanting to know the answer to this. It seems to me that this is a WAY big deal if Linux is to be a desktop platform. Also, I don't see JavaWebServer running on Linux Boxen and I do see it running on NT/98 on Netcraft querries. Why? I'm currently in an e-mail exchange with a Visto.com support engineer about their use of NT at all. I'm hoping to get a better answer about the choice of their platform beyond "trust us" and "it's under armed guard in a hardened bunker in the ground at Exodus.com". Please see what you can find out about Java on Linux apart from tools and JVMs and more toward the actual architecture/conflict. -JCJ

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1847)	11/23/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

You can induce any wave-form if you sample at 3 times the greatest harmonic. This is on the average 1.5 times as fast as your equipment will maintain at normal voltages. This is why Rock and roll only sounds good if it played really loud. It is also why of you play Black Sabbath backwards it sounds like a lullabye instead of the torment of the damned. The person who formed this theory was named Nykwist. He was seeking a way to avoid scratches, pops and clicks in records, and knowing that they were very high frequency, he simply attenuated the sampling rate until they and those irritating sopranos disappeared altogether. Hiss was a problem on earlier recordings until he was found guilty of espionage and deported. Nykwistian reduction has the side effect however of causing people in the audience to cough whenever the pianissimo exceeds the allegro. A solution for this, as well as the well known induction effect on the ringing device of cellular telephones has been found, but it is difficult at present to squelch the noise of firearms unless they are kept on a separate track altogether. What Nykwsitian sampling does not do though is allow the ultra low freqencies to get enough spatial filtering to enrichen the response of the broad band fidelity groups. Ultra spiked harmonics which float through all horn solos are also retained in absentia principally. What the agency of reproduction does is to separate the roll-offs and add low and high level harmonics to the illusion of the sonic envelope diacritically. Sound is a subjective in final analysis, though it may be in many places at the same time. EC<:-}