People at work have noticed that I am able to stream my music collection on a server at home to my desktop at work. Here’s the short hack that does the streaming… it’s just two php files and a css file: browse.php – lets you browse through directories stream.php – starts a stream with mime-type [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2004
M3rry Chr1stm4s, y0u ar3 0wn3d
12/25/2004 – 12:03 pm
Had a bit of a scare last night. I was logged in to one of my Debian Linux servers just making a short configuration change to something when, for no apparent reason, I ran chkrootkit (checks for the presence of rootkits… a positive result indicates that the host has been broken in to), which came [...]
Your Email works… Your Email Works… Your Email Works…
12/22/2004 – 12:34 am
One interesting side effect of having highly accurate anti-spam filters is that I am frequently wondering if there is a problem with mail delivery on my servers. I’m flipping over to my inbox more and more only to discover that there are no new messages. The constant stream of spam also served as a nagging [...]
Whirlycache 0.6.5 Released
12/20/2004 – 11:34 am
Whirlycache 0.6.5 is now available. Whirlycache is an extremely fast in-memory Java object cache. New features for this release include: Cocoon integration from Peter Royal (BETA): you can how use Whirlycache as a Store in Cocoon Hibernate integration (BETA): You can now use Whirlycache as a Hibernate cache provider A new Cacheable interface allows cached [...]
Eclipse Goodie
12/16/2004 – 6:23 pm
I’m using this little Eclipse goodie every day since I discovered it earlier in the week. It’s a common occurrence that you have a java.util.Collection object reference and want to iterate over it. Check this out: In Eclipse, after the object ref was assigned to list, I hit ctrl-space and found a wonderful addition to [...]
Love/Hate/qmail
12/16/2004 – 5:42 pm
I’ve been a qmail convert since I worked for pate in 1999 when it truly was the best option out there insofar as MTAs were concerned. Maybe it still is. I wish the licensing terms were compatible with the terms that my preferred distribution for Linux-based servers uses. Qmail, for those of you who don’t [...]
Sorry, I Don't Speak Texan
12/5/2004 – 4:39 pm
Apparently, the Associated Press writers were up a little late last night… they must have been a bit slap-happy today when they wrote this article that appeared on CNN: Before church, the president, clad in a tan cowboy hat, moseyed around the Rose Garden area, his dog, Barney, in tow. Moseying. Clad. Tan cowboy hat. [...]
Reminds of the Cat Exercising Device
12/5/2004 – 1:39 am
This is a good example of a bad patent that obviously was approved by someone who was, at best, asleep.