Monthly Archives: November 2005

A few hours with ubuntu

So far so good. Only took me a few minutes to get the madwifi driver working. A little tougher to get eclipse installed though. I had to actually uninstall a bunch of things and then install eclipse and then reinstall … Continue reading

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Ubuntu

Installed ubuntu tonite. So far so good. I had been thinking lately that the gentoo install was getting krufty, and I hear good things about Ubuntu. Installed xfce4 and have it configured the way I like it. Now I need … Continue reading

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web.xml

Thursday night I was working on making some Java/JSP/Servlet stuff work and it looked fine, I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working. As usually happens with me, after I have exausted my usual troubleshooting ideas, I just start blindly … Continue reading

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tomcat sucks

So in an effort to learn Java, I of course need to interact with Tomcat. Now tomcat has this little game it likes to play. Namely not shutting down when I tell it to. So I had been issuing by … Continue reading

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Sad

I was watching 60 minutes tonite. The main story was about Neil Armstrong. For almost the entire interview, I was impressed with how grounded this man was. I was thinking that a lot of people never get over some great … Continue reading

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annoying

So I was using windows today, and I like to use ‘QuickLaunch’ icons, because lets face it when you have a bunch of windows open, trying to find a desktop icon sucks. So I put two icons on there that … Continue reading

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electrocuted

in a ‘BoingBoing’ linked story, part of a sentence read: “elecotrocuted and died” That is redundant. Electrocuted means “to die from electricity”. It’s similar to saying, “He was killed, and died”. I only bring it up because some folks (myself … Continue reading

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msdn v mono-project

The mono projects documentation is not the greatest (it’s getting better all the time) and msdn does have more complete documentation (this is in reference to .Net). However one strinking difference… Go to msdn and click on the little pluses … Continue reading

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