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  • But after he married novelist and later painter Jennifer Lash, known to all as Jini, he followed her into the arts, developing a passion for photography, working for magazines and recording the restoration of Windsor castle.

    The famous Fiennes 2011

  • Although she caught on to pop culture in the 1970s, Jini disapproved of TV and one of Martha's favourite stories is of Sophie once asking neighbours if they had been watching their "bourgeois television", having picked up the expression from sniffy grown-ups.

    The famous Fiennes 2011

  • "People would come and help out, Jini had a tough time managing on her own," Magnus says.

    The famous Fiennes 2011

  • Jini died in her 50s in 1993, from breast cancer, just as Ralph's career was taking off so she never saw his success, or knew her grandchildren.

    The famous Fiennes 2011

  • These nondesktop items are bound to far outnumber plain old computers, and Java, along with Sun's Jini networking technology, is designed to link devices and computers together so smoothly that the only operating system that really matters is the Net itself; your boxy machine that runs Windows will be only a widget in this world.

    Bill In The Bull's Eye 2008

  • With Jini set in motion, some of Joy's key people have left his small Aspen lab.

    The Quiet Genius Who Brings It All Together 2008

  • Bill Joy, chief designer of Sun's Jini language, compares PC reliability with that of the airplane.

    The New Digital Galaxy 2008

  • To help usher in the age of ease in computing, Joy recently developed Jini, a system that allows people to plug all sorts of gewgaws into a network without the hassle of configuration.

    The Quiet Genius Who Brings It All Together 2008

  • Executives from IBM, Philips, Sony and 3Com all were boasting how their futuristic devices would use Sun's Jini codes to transform our workaday world into something like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.

    The New Digital Galaxy 2008

  • Naturally, an early implementation of Sun's Jini, which aspires to be that aforementioned lingua franca, will be data-storage devices.

    The New Digital Galaxy 2008

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