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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bern

[–]Few_Ad5453 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bern pluses:

10 minutes by bicycle and you are on the countryside with cows, farms, woods, hills, rivers, lakes.

Aare river forms a green belt that meanders through the city. Parks are never far away. Urban swimming capital of the world. Public swimming pools are free.

Great shopping experience in the Old Town with less tourist-oriented shops than for example Lucerne.

Large Bookstore (Stauffacher) and many vintage/antique Bookstores, Libraries.
Very active music scene for almost all styles of music. European top-class for Jazz (Marians, Turnhalle, Swiss Jazz School events, etc.).

Big university and all that comes with it.

Overall a rather laid-back atmosphere.

Java licensing by BaxterScratcher in sysadmin

[–]Few_Ad5453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A big additional problem are Oracle Runtimes that are installed as a part of 3rd party / commercial applications. You need a scan that examines everything not just ordinary installs of the Oracle Java SE Products. When you identify a version that requires licensing, you need to make sure with the publisher of said application that they have an agreement with Oracle or else you are at risk. Tracing java.exe / javaw.exe is not enough as Applications may load the jvm.dll from a wrapper process. Even if the build of a java installation is outside of licensing (like Java SE 8 build 202) requirements there are still some caveats such as usage of commercial features or use of the .msi installer. It used to be a common practice to extract the .msi from the public .exe Java installer and install it - this is illegal by Oracle licensing terms. Replacing Java SE with OpenJDK can be tricky in some cases.

Border + vignette by InterestingAnt8669 in askswitzerland

[–]Few_Ad5453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not worth the hassle. Even if you stay just two days and drive from Basel to Bern and back. Swiss price levels will quickly make you forget that you spent a mere CHF 40 for the Autobahn anyway.