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Information that`s stored in computers `rusts` at least as fast as information stored in real world media. I`m reminded of this every time I walk through the cemetery ...
Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose. It`s a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that`s developed cooperatively ...
UnixProgrammingBookmarks WebProgrammingBookmarks JavaProgrammingBookmarks DatabaseProgrammingBookmarks XmlProgrammingBookmarks Source Code Control ...
font config note that I should follow up on: http://lists.debian.org/debian devel/2003/debian devel 200304/msg01763.html http://www.logilab.org/narval/ looks very ...
I like Fedora GNU/Linux since it`s split from Red Hat. It appears to be moving in Debian`s direction, i.e. it`s a community driven distribution. The key difference ...
Citrus is a fun parser generator for Ruby. It lets you mix small bits of Ruby code in with your parser grammar. http://mjijackson.com/citrus/ Invoking a method with ...
(over to JavaNotes) XML Binding https://bindmark.dev.java.net/ a detailed comparison of many binding frameworks. http://skaringa.sf.net works very well for ...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id 2179123 excellent intro to version control and git http://progit.org/book/ git book (online and available in print) http:/ ...
(Back to ProgrammingBookmarks) The root of all things WWW is the W3C: http://w3.org/ Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an Open Source community ...
(over to JavaProgrammingBookmarks) Java is a popular programming language written by Sun Microsystems. It`s an object oriented language that runs inside a `virtual ...
(other DebianTips) In order to administer printers your userid needs to be in the lpadmin group. Debian Jessie The web admin interface isn`t enabled by default ...
(other DebianTips) I once had a problem where apt get and dselect started seg faulting when they were `Building Dependency Tree`. Moving /var/cache/apt/pkgcache ...
(other DebianTips) Multiple IP`s on one ethernet port Multi home hosts are possible, make sure that the kernel has `IP: aliasing support` built in. It appears as ...
ProgrammingBookmarks HardwareBookmarks (Other non technical WebBookmarks) http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm Who owns your data? http ...
Small, fast database for simple tasks like providing services to web servers. People who are concerned about Oracle`s actions are moving to MariaDB: https://mariadb ...
DebianTips MandrakeTips FedoraNotes UnixPerformanceTips PostfixNotes PostfixComcastAol PluggableAuthenticationModules At some point the ...
(back to ProgrammingNotes) Emacs is more than an editor it`s a lifestyle. I spent years using vi but have fairly recently started to make the investment to join ...
(back to ProgrammingNotes) Python is a very interesting programming language. It`s object oritented, very high level, interpreted, and has a clean syntax. The root ...
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Representational State Transfer is the software architecture of the world wide web. You can use this architecture to build distributed systems it`s an alternative ...
BonnieResults CdWriter SoundBlaster VaioTips ThinkpadTips DimageS304Tips CompaqDl380Tips HpIpaq1940 EpiaMiiTips A great site for ...
These are ideas I have for little hacks to open source projects: TWiki it would be cool to translate to XML instead of HTML and use a style sheet to transform ...
Cygwin is a unix emulation environment for Windows. If you must use a Windows machine to write code then Cygwin will help. http://www.cygwin.com/ After installing ...
Top Menu of Tech Web This topic defines the menu structure of the Tech web, used by the TopMenuSkin. 1 Web` Create New Topic ...
Tahoe LAFS is described as `the first decentralized storage system with provider independent security`. Its name indicates that it`s a `file system` but it`s different ...
Tips UnixNotes HardwareTips DocBookTips DatabaseTips ProgrammingNotes TelephonyTips InterviewQuestions Misc UserInterfaceDesign ...
(Back to ProgrammingBookmarks) Relational databases aren`t cool, but they are hugely important to businesses around the world. I`ve been involved with databases for ...
http://www.securitysage.com/guides/postfix uce.html has detailed info on how to set up the Postfix MTA to filter spam. HOWTO harden postfix to SPAM: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine ...
Linux What`s the difference between touch file and echo n file and rm file ? Hint: what happens if someone else has the file open, for example, a logfile ...
HP 9350i 10x4x32 IDE, slave on ide0 As of Linux 2.6 you don`t seem to need to use SCSI emulation anymore as long as you tell cdrecord what to do using dev ATAPI ...
A bunch of folks from TecsChange are experimenting with the process of installing Ubuntu 6.06 on a variety of laptops. Here are some notes from the process. General ...
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(back to ProgrammingBookmarks) http://www.xml.com/pub/a/axml/axmlintro.html the annotated XML spec http://www.xml.org/xml/registry.jsp Oasis` XML schema/DTD registry ...
I`d like to make TBL`s Semantic Web happen, so I`m helping out in a small way: I converted my resume to XML. I`m using the dtd at http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net ...
`Back in the day` I used to spec disk storage (e.g. EMC Symmetrix) for customers who paid around $1000/GB. Then I spent about 2 years away from the system sizing ...
Introduction I`d like to write a tool to manage my personal data about contacts, appointments, recurring events, notes, etc. Years ago I used a very slick `PIM` program ...
(back to WebBookmarks) The Art of Unix Programming (a/k/a TAOUP) Eric Raymond has been a fixture in the Unix community for a long time, and has a keen interest ...
(back to JavaNotes) Example database datasource configs are in docs/example/jca. Give jboss more memory than the java default you`ll be glad you did (or sorry if ...
Most folks buy their TV`s at places like Sears or Best Buy, and there`s a lot to be said for plunking your credit card down and driving home with a functional television ...
Definition: A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine to machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a ...
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. How`s that for a pretentious name? Home: http://www.uddi.org/ Intro white paper: http://www.uddi.org/pubs/Iru UDDI ...
This is where I store notes on technology. There are few enough topics that your best bet is probably to scan the list of them in the WebIndex, or you can see the ...
Web Service Definition Language `an XML grammar for describing network services as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages.` http: ...
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/ Chapter J2EE.3 of the j2ee 1.4 spec http://java.sun.com/products/j2ee/ (includes a simple example) Chapter ...
AC RAID.edu Disk I/O Benchmarks http:/ ...
Bonnie is a simple benchmark which measures how fast it can read and write to a filesystem. These are the results of bonnie runs that I`ve made on various machines ...
XmlSchemaNotes XsltNotes http://www.snee.com/xml/nscomments.html an XSL stylesheet that shows the namespace values of each element and attribute in a document. ...
Reverse Order Sometimes you want to display a list of items in the reverse order than they appear in the document. http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl list/archives ...
Overview http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema XML Schema is used to assess the validity of XML documents. 2 parts: 1 local validity: is each element valid? 1 overall ...
The Apache group`s j2ee server is called Geronimo. Here are some notes. The home page is http://geronimo.apache.org/ and there`s a wiki at http://wiki.apache.org ...
CVS is the Concurrent Versions System, a file revision control system. It works nicely for distributed development, but is weak in branching and merging. It`s by ...
I once worked for a company (Kenan Systems) that wrote billing software for telcos, and I`m a big fan of Free Software and Open Source software. So I`ve been casually ...
I used to have a Psion Series 5. It was a cool little computer and I really liked it, but it eventually bit the dust when the flexy cable that fed signals to the ...
One of the companies I worked for shut down quickly and gave some of their hardware to the staff. I ended up with a Compaq DL380 server, which is a 3U rackmount machine ...
To enable the VT1211 chip (at least for Linux 2.6.18) you need to apply a patch: http://ftp.ntu.edu.tw/ftp/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/i2c/2.6/2.6.18/hwmon vt1211 ...
Prevayler http://www.prevayler.org/ is an interesting tool that allows you to manage a tree of Java objects persistently. It`s basically a combination of Java serialization ...
(see also UbuntuInstallationNotes) Non profit organizations increasingly depend on computers to help with day to day activities. Computers are very useful devices ...
(see also GnuLinuxForTecsChange for a page that I wrote to lobby Tecschange to use GNU/Linux) Take I A few people, working under the aegis of TecsChange, gave an ...
The Caboteria`s Tech web The 1 web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web Based Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise.
The hp iPAQ 1940 is a small Pocket PC with a very nice screen. It`s inexpensive and very thin and light. People are working on getting Linux running on it: http: ...
Current disk layout: Filesystem 1K blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ida/c0d2p4 13268472 6885540 5708916 55% / tmpfs ...
(back to GnuLinuxIntro) This week`s class introduces the students to the GNU/Linux filesystem, command line tools, and graphical tools. This intro to Linux looks ...
JHotDraw is a framework for building Swing drawing applications. It`s descended from a toolkit written in SmallTalk by one of the `gang of four` patterns ...
The Minolta Dimage S304 is a nice digital camera. It takes very crisp pictures and has a movie mode which can take 60 second movies. The only problem I have with ...
/Tech The 1 web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web Based Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise.
Tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html Architecture overview: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/architecture/ Pretty much ...
What is Free Software? Quoting from the Free Software Foundation: ``Free software`` is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think ...
Going Further: Where to Find Support and Documentation Once you have GNU/Linux installed, how do you learn more? online help: `man`, `apropos` commands, CDROM ...
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AOL Sucks! Those bastards arbitrarily decided to stop receiving email from machines with dynamic IP addresses. Many GNU/Linux users (like me) like to have their machines ...
(back to TechNotes) OracleBasics OracleOnDebian PostgresOracleInteroperability MySqlNotes Here`s a shallow but interesting article on Oracle performance ...
(back to TechNotes) DocBook is a structured document format that allows you to write a document in SGML (or XML) and then convert it to many different formats ...
Pluggable Authentication Modules is the mechanism that Linux uses to decide whether you can log in or not. Here`s a crude picture: login \ ...
(back to UnixNotes) On a GNU/Linux system you actually perform a write operation for each read because the filesystem tracks the last access time for each file. ...
I like perl, but I don`t use it enough to really get it. To manipulate dates use the Date::Manip package. It`s big and slow but the most functional date handling ...
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(other TechNotes) GDB is the GNU project debugger. help gets help. b sets a breakpoint, i.e. b class::function or b filename:linenum . run (with optional ...
(back to TechNotes) I use Mandrake Linux on my Vaio; I don`t like it as much as Debian but it seemed like the easiest to install on machines that already have Windows ...
(back to TechNotes) In general I like to use Postgresql for development because it`s light, quick, and the tools are very developer friendly. It`s not really suited ...
I`ve spent quite a while in the telecom industry specifically, writing software used by telcos to do their thing. Here are some resources that you might find helpful ...
Over the past few years I`ve taken some snapshots of the family. My Dad`s a very competent photgrapher; he`s grabbed some amazing candids of people for many years ...
(TobyCabot 12 Nov 2003) We found out from the XmlCssExperiment that we can`t expect to send XML and CSS to browsers and get good cross browser results. Mozilla does ...
Introduction Model view controller is a pattern that defines a structure that works well for user interface programming. It came out of the Smalltalk community and ...
(TobyCabot 11 Nov 2003) Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Same with HTML. XML is the future, but can XML be sent to browsers ...
(TobyCabot 08 Nov 2003) Why send XML to browsers? Semantic web, efficiency, ... How do you send XML to browsers? Mimetype Attach xslt and css documents using processing ...
My company (Riverton) sent me to the 2003 Server Side Symposium in Wakefield, MA on the last weekend in June. It was scheduled for Friday Sunday but I went Friday ...
The Oracle graphical console is called oemapp . You`ll most likely want to run oemapp dbastudio , make sure that X is working first. Get a list of tables: select ...
(back to DatabaseTips or DebianTips) During Black Ink Systems` restructuring I hosted our software in my basement on a small VA Linux server. Since I like Debian ...
One thing that I consider fun but wouldn`t necessarily recommend to other people is running GNU/Linux on `interesting` hardware. Most of the time it`s old 386 stuff ...
(back to GnuLinuxIntro) Web Server Overview Different options for establishing a presence: hosting (shared, dedicated), co location, in house. Cost/benefit. Professional ...
Several years ago my boss and friend gave me a Palm III for a present. I had a Psion series 5 already, so it sat in the box for a few years until the psion bit the ...
(back to GnuLinuxIntro) GNU/Linux Overview Introductions Teachers introduce themselves, ask the class to introduce themselves. Why Do You Want To Learn About GNU ...
descend a tree full of ogg/mp3 files and build html pages and m3u playlists. m3u playlist should have all of the files in the current directory and all of the files ...
I got an IBM thinkpad A30 at work. It`s huge, and probably the ugliest laptop I`ve seen singe the GRIDpad. Of course the first thing I wanted to do was install Linux ...
I have a Sony VAIO PCG N505VE notebook computer. It`s very small and chic, and reasonably powerful (enough for most office tasks) but the battery life stinks (Update ...
This seems like an interesting project, still in its infancy. http://openejb.exolab.org/ to build: 1. Get a fresh checkout of the source (see website for details ...
Interesting page talking about building a touchscreen appliance: http://www.cdp1802.org/touch/ TobyCabot 05 Oct 2001
Mandrake Linux 8.0 uses RPM 4.0 http://www.rpm.org/ as its package manager but does some things a little differently. The man pages for rpm indicate that you can ...
WebNotify is a subscription service to be automatically notified by email when topics change in the The Caboteria.Tech web. This is a convenient service, so ...
An Entity Bean is persistent. The persistence can be CMP (container managed persistence) or BMP (bean managed persistence). Each bean has a primary key which ...
Sun`s reference j2ee server (j2sdk1.2.1 and j2sdk1.3) will work with Postgresql, although it`s not a supported configuration and therefore probably not a great idea ...
Start here: http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html TobyCabot 03 Apr 2001
The January 2001 edition of http://www.linuxgazette.com/ (in `the answer gang` column) solved an issue that`s been nagging me for quite some time now. The original ...
SB16 in a debian 2.2 system: configure kernel build `Soundblaster` support as a module. use pnpdump to dump soundcard pnp values /etc/isapnp.conf, then edit ...
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