Splashscreens
Also known as:
- our program starts too slowly
- advertising our product makes our customers happy
- we’ll cover up part of the screen so you can’t work whilst our bloated product loads
I’ll admit that last one doesn’t apply so much to Windows users, but definitely _does_ apply (hello there openoffice) on Linux.
However today I was particularly pleased that despite Java _still_ not having standardised memory options, they have at least standardised the ability to set a splash image:
-splash:<imagepath>
show splash screen with specified image
As an aside, why oh why can’t Java just grow memory usage when garbage collection is triggering too frequently - I’d _far_ rather have a program use too much memory than just fall over.
Lastly, when I talk to JMX, I want to use that IP address, not one it randomly chooses, heard of multi-homing? or NAT? The FAQ is crap - and no, adding Djava.rmi.server.hostname=ip.add.re.ss is also crap for the same reason.
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under Linux Rants.
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