Fix for PR #195 for Java 6

Use Java 6's recommended equivalent of Java 7's Logger.getGlobal() to retain Java 6 compatibility. See PR #195

Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

Closes #334 from srowen/FixPR195ForJava6 and squashes the following commits:

f92fbd3 [Sean Owen] Use Java 6's recommended equivalent of Java 7's Logger.getGlobal() to retain Java 6 compatibility
SPARK-1421. Make MLlib work on Python 2.6

The reason it wasn't working was passing a bytearray to stream.write(), which is not supported in Python 2.6 but is in 2.7. (This array came from NumPy when we converted data to send it over to Java). Now we just convert those bytearrays to strings of bytes, which preserves nonprintable characters as well.

Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #335 from mateiz/mllib-python-2.6 and squashes the following commits:

f26c59f [Matei Zaharia] Update docs to no longer say we need Python 2.7
a84d6af [Matei Zaharia] SPARK-1421. Make MLlib work on Python 2.6