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  1. Re:RTFM? RTFQ on Taming the Elusive Tomcat · · Score: 2
    The question was not about setting up Java but Tomcat. If it was about Java then the person should not have asked "Where can one find descriptive help in setting up Tomcat for FreeBSD?" They should have asked "Where can one find descriptive help in setting up Java for FreeBSD so that they can run Tomcat?"

    The title of the article was about Tomcat NOT Java.

    Give me access to a FreeBSD box and then we'll talk. I only have NetBSD / Linux and Windows at the moment.

    The steps above are generic. They apply to ALL platforms. If there is an inadequate jdk for FreeBSD then that is not my fault. Linux users got togeather at www.blackdown.org to release Java for Linux LONG before Sun supported it. Maybe FreeBSD people who are intereseted in a better port of java to Linux should talk to someone over there and maybe they can make a more generic jdk that will work better on FreeBSD.

  2. Re:RTFM! on Taming the Elusive Tomcat · · Score: 2
    This guy is a moron! I have tomcat running on both my Linux box AND my windows box. All it takes is reading the F****** manual as you say!

    Step 1 get Java 1.3+ (1.4 better)

    Step 2 get apache 1.3+

    Step 3 get tomcat 4.0+ and mod_jk

    Step 4 install all of the above.

    Step 5 Create a workers.properties file.

    Step 6 Create a mod_jk.conf file or let tomcat do it for you. If you let tomcat create one for you copy it and use the copy not the one created as it may overwrite this file. There is a way to shut this on and off, but that is in the manual.

    Step 7 Add a line in apache's httpd.conf file to include the mod_jk.conf file

    Step 8 Edit the mod_jk.conf file to include your new jsp pages directory. This will require you setting up the directive as per apache documentation. Look in http.conf for examples.

    Step 9 add the 'connectors'. There are the JkMount directives.

    Step 10 start it all up and test it out. Pretty much worked for me.

    WEB-INF/classes is where your .class files go and there is a place for glocal jars and global classes as well as private classes and private servlets etc.

    Alternately youy could just get tomcat and java and run it without apache if all you are doing is jsp. It is really not that difficult and there is a whole web site dedicated to this. Its called jakarta.apache.org. try it.

  3. Re:The question is...? on Pop-Under Ads Patented · · Score: 2
    I'm not sure this could be patented. Wouldn't the person who created the window.open and set focus be the owner of the patent if it were just 2 lines of code? Besides I saw this more than a year ago so when are they saying they 'inveneted' this?

    window.blur() has been around since JS 1.0 so what are they patenting? Putting an image in a window (been there done that) and loosing focus?

  4. yes and no on Rise of the Corporate Skeleton Crew? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    There are companies that do this, well sort of. AMS is one. They cone in build your software package then leave. Of course they offer you a support contract. My company does this to an extent, but some firm will need software engineers to build the product and a 'custom' built system takes 3 years.

    Then there are bugs. Building a bridge or house you better not have bugs (other than roaches and ants) that cause the house to collapse. How can the software industry make bug free software that works? THEY CANT. Linux has bugs, BSD has bugs, Windows has bugs, Sun has bugs, HP and AIX and MAC ALL have bugs. Palm has bugs as well. THER eis no way you can design a bug free OS and there certain is no way you can design software needed by a corporation to use that does not have bugs.

    My company let go of 1/2 of our dev team this week. We need to rewrite or go under. I'd like to take the source, rewrite it and then sell it back to the company as an improved product that they can resell. Ah heck I'm going to get into a different software development market.

  5. Re:Fucking do *some* verification before posting on Sun Java Runtime Uploads Usage Data to RedSheriff? · · Score: 2
    This is good to know. It means that the person visited a site that had this installed and loaded it on their site. The best thing to do after this happens is to shut down your browser, manually clear your browser cache then, restart your browser.

    Of course for added bonuses you could add a line in your host file that would redirect traffic to these sites to your local host. If you did this though and are not running a service on this port AND DON'T have a firewall, you may have to wait for the browser to timeout the connect to this site.

    If you do start a service on that port (probably port 80) to answer the requests it would prevent the browser time outs. I'm sure a simple perl server on port 80 would handle the request and drop it to the floor.

    Of course you have to realize that the person who reported this is a windows user user so they needed this dumbed down for them. A UNIX user would have searched the web first and gotton some info on this first.

  6. Re:*This* side of what fence? on The Great Firewall of .... Kuwait? · · Score: 2
    "sometimes it's interesting to see someone on *this* side of the political fence"

    I was wondering that myself. I was under the impression that they were a muslem country or islam country. I heard from friends that were over there during desert storm that they could nto get porn magazines and that people could get in serious trouble (i.e. hand cut off or execution) for little things like stealing. Whoah and adultry is somthing that you really dont want to do over there. Many of the coutries over there are not friendly to gays. I'm not sure why those people hate so much of so many things.

  7. Re:The obvious question remains on FreeBSD: Perl to be removed · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Is is not in most standard unix installations. If you get HP, Sun, or Linux perl is a seperate package. Linux usually installs it on the system as part of the development packages, but it is a seperate package and you can set up a Linux box without it. Sun is the same way, as is HP and AIX.

    I can't remember if I had to install perl for NetBSD, I thought I did, but it may be just the added packages. I know on one NetBSD box I have it has perl installed as a package. I think FreeBSD is doing the right thing. I mean it is not that hard to do 'make install' in the ports to install perl.

  8. I want one of those macs.. but.. on Preview of Mac OS X 10.2 · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    At this point I just can't justify a new computer. I have 3 pcs and a laptop as it is, and need to get rid of at least 1. If I don't get laid off and the company I am working for does not go out of business and my pay cut (everyone got one) turns into a pay raise then maybe.

    I played with a Mac G4 with the wide flat screen and opened up the iMovie and it was attached to a camera and it was dreamy! The picture was at least 640x480 and there were no skips or bumps. The screen was awesome, but probably not good enough for gamers, but I don't care I don't do games. It looked like it would be really great for dvd movies too.

  9. Re:I like OS X too.. but.. on O'Reilly Thinks Mac OS X May Be the 'Next Big Thing' · · Score: 2
    Truthfully thought it takes me about 30 minutes to build a pc from parts, maybe an hour tops. To install RH 7.1 or later is about another hour and about an hour to config the OS. However you also have to configure Mac OS X as well so the last hour is not counted. When I say configure, I mean set up ppp and make your desktop you and select your theme and preferences and things. Shut off or turn on services. Hey you have to do that on any OS.

    So then 2 hours of my time is not worth the extra $400+ for the Mac to me. Yes I am thinking about me.

    There is no reason Mac could not sell OS X on a PC. Darwin is the core of the system and it works on intel so cocoa and carbon should be portable as well. Of course Apple would want to make this port and they are in the business of selling hardware not just software. If they ever do port to intel the whole OS X then yeah I would be willing to spend about 100 bucks on buying OS X for a pc. Until that happens or I'll stick to building my own pc. I would hover recommend this for my mother or father who would certainly benifit from OS X.

  10. I like OS X too.. but.. on O'Reilly Thinks Mac OS X May Be the 'Next Big Thing' · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    .. I can get decent pc hardware cheaper. Okay I saw the onay vs mac comparison where Sony was only a little better than the Mac and Mac was 1/2 as expensive, but I paid 800 for my current computer almost a year ago, including OS (RH 7.1 at the time). I don't think I could have gotton a Mac for that price. Okay I probably could have gotton a Mac for that price, but not one with 512Meg of RAM. Not NEW. 1.2Ghz CPU, 32Meg video card, NIC, 52x cdrom, SB live sound card.

  11. Re:check sane on Digitizing Your Dead Trees? · · Score: 2
    Yes I have tried gocr, and it did not seg fault for me. I actually scanned the image at I think 300 or 600 dpi and get it to convert the image to text. It however was incredibley inaccurate as every other word was wrong. It probably would have taken me longer to type the document all over as opposed to scanning it and using gocr, but my typing sucks and I have about as many typos as gocr does ;-).

    I would recommend that for book to text conversion like this person wants -> send it out to a professional service.

  12. Re:check sane on Digitizing Your Dead Trees? · · Score: 3, Informative
    There is gocr or jocr -> http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

    Also there are a few commercial ones. However scanned to text conversion needs at least 600dpi and is only goind to have about a 97% accuracy.

  13. saw this yesterday on HP on Jornada Killed, iPaq To Live On · · Score: 2
    http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/07may02b.h tm

    This details what they are and are not getting ride of. It looks like most of what is staying is all going to be under the HP name as well. Very little Compaq left. They are also getting rid of True64 and integrating the good parts of it, or what they think are good, into HP-UX.

    This is from HP and to their customers / consumers so if you use any Compaq / HP stuff it is worth a read.

  14. wireless and tablet pc's on Color PDAs for Wireless LANs? · · Score: 2

    While this may cost more than the average handlheld, there are wireless tablets out there that do what you are talking about. I think Fijutsu(sp?) is one company that makes them. A good magazine to look at is called pen computing where they have ads for this kind of stuff. Also try here as they talk about wireless tablets and have a whole list of them. http://www.iapplianceweb.com/appDirectory/IAW_WEB_ TABLET

  15. rm -rf /* on Root as Primary Login: Why Not? · · Score: 2
    As a user with no privelidges and see what happens and then as root.

    After they have wiped out thier system ask them if they know how to install the OS ;-)

    Its sort of like NT do you give all your users admin priveledges or just the ones you trust?

  16. change ISP... on Obtaining Access Logs for User Web Sites? · · Score: 2
    no seriously. I use earthlink and they have some web logs for users. If you get their dialup plan for 21.95 they give you 10 Meg of storage included and also several email address (NOT aliases real email addresses). Along with the web space is a small tool called Urchin which tells how many hits you got and on what pages and how many times various images loaded up.

    If you want more than this info you can get a commercial account for 15 to 20 a month and have your own domain and they give you access to the log info. Aloowing you to see the referrer through a revers lookup. If someone searches google and then comes to your site it is in these logs but this is only for their commercial accounts.

  17. used to live in DC on Traffic Cameras in D.C. · · Score: 2
    I used to live in DC. I saw an accident one day, well I looked over and saw the end result of it anyway. A person had run a 'stale' redlight that I was stopped at and traffic had begun to move through the green. The red light runner hit a car in the intersection and totalled it. Luckily there was no passenger else they would have been dead. The drivers of both cars were okay, but it was a real mess. There was no camera, but many witnesses.

    In other areas I have seen the cameras and we have them in San Francisco too. They are becomming more and more popular across the nation as well. What are our alternatives when people have stopped obeying trafic rules?

    Each day on my way to work, I see people driving over teh speed limit. Not 5 or 10 miles over but 20 miles or more. If the limit is 65 anmd I am doing 70-75, people are passing me at 80 to 100 at least! They switch lanes without using turn signals. When I get home and am crossing the street in the cross walk, people will swerve to miss me and other pedestrians but WONT slow down. People run stop signs and I have seen people speed up at stop signs cause they see cars coming up to the intersection and they refuse to slow. So what would you recommend society as a whole do to protect people?

    A picture is worth a 1000 words. The only flaw in the cameras is WHO is driving the car. If you can prove that you were not driving the car then you can get off the ticket. Of course you will be required to tell who was driving the car. This can get messy when a kid takes out the parents car and the parents get the ticket. But it is nothing compared to what car rentals are doing with GPS and tracking where you take the car and how fast you go in it too.

    Banks have been using cameras for getting bank robbers for years so why should this be any different? Its not like someone is using a sattelite imaging system to see who you are screwing in your bedroom .. yet....

  18. glasses.... on The Next Tech Revolution · · Score: 2
    .. eye glasses or drinking glasses???

    they going to track what I see or what I drink?

  19. CBT on Training Hundreds of Users in Many Different Sites? · · Score: 2

    computer based training. We had this when I worked at a company of 1000's. They usually had training and a test at the end. Very good gor learning how to use a program. We made our own stuff and there was a company that made some more for us. VB is good for that.

  20. so true.. on Top Ten New Copyright Crimes · · Score: 2
    I'm sorry but I PAY for cable TV. I do not PAY to get adds. When I watch a showtime or hbo movie I watch it cause I can watch it WITHOUT adds and I want to watch the movie. I also get NBC and CBS and all those other network channels, which are INCLUDED in my cable bill. This is part of what the cable company calls BASIC CABLE. Yes and if you have cable you pay for all those networks. You usually can't just get HBO without basic cable. Since I am forced to get these channels and channels I don't want I cannot be forced to look at watch or view adds. What's next requireing people not to dump the add section of the Sunday paper in teh trash and requiring them to read through it all?

    Hollywood execs are getting stupider by the minute. They are actually going to turn people off from this crap. There are few really great movies released these days, most are mediocre at best and most music these days are 'flash in the pans' music. Lets face it how many bands are there today that will leave a mark on society like the Beatles did or Elvis?

    There are few good tv shows anyway. Yes the simpsons are funny and so is south park and there are a few others, but out of all the tv I watch a week there is about 3 hours of tv that I don't want to miss, and after this season and the x files disapearing it will be about 2 or less ( I like enterprise ;-) ).

    These people fail to realize that there is such a thing as add overkill. Our society is becomming immune to advertising, just like our tolerance for violence has increased over the years. When I was 13 Jaws scared me, now my 13 yo nephew wathces all the Jaws and jason flicks cause they are cool like scream. He is very desensitized as we are becomming to adds.

    If internet advertising is such a bad business model like they said in 2000-2001 (which killed many dot-coms) why is network or radio advertising any better? I can change the channel and watch picture in a picture or leave the room. These network execs need to get over themselves and be more accomidating to the end users else were going to stop buying their products. And people will ...

  21. my car Eula on Fighting Back Against EULAs · · Score: 2
    When I bought my car they made me sign a EULA. It said that I must fill it up with gas, not speed, use turn signals, and drive carefully... yeah right.. can you imagine if everything had a EULA? Why is it just software? When you buy a car you have restrictions on by state laws and fed laws and insurance, but not a eula. Most hardware does not make you sign a EULA. Why software?

    What I'd like to know is who wrote the first software EULA?

  22. Re:What a 50% Pay Cut Really Means on "Industry Standard" Paycuts in IT? · · Score: 2
    neither does a 7% for the rest of the year, which is what the company I work for did. So far noone has left. I am looking to an extent to see what is out there that I am qualified for and would want to do.

    I do feel sorry for many of the people that I work with as some of them are just not really that skilled.

  23. Re:No license probs here on Microsoft Interoperability and the GPL? · · Score: 2

    I may be wrong, but my understanding was that in their embedded XP or Win CE or one of the license for some of their .net stuff they prohibit the use of GPL software with the system. If they are using gcc which is gpl in their4 unix migration tools and the fist sentance is true (or somewhat true) then aren't they violating their own license if they sell .net with SFU?

  24. Re:I'm intereseted in something like this too.. on InsightConnector - A Viable Exchange Alternative? · · Score: 2

    ms mail does not give remote access. There is no way our remote users can check the calendaring and their mail. They end up using internet mail accounts and this is a weak solution.

  25. whats the standard protocol? on Fetching Your Voicemail from the PC? · · Score: 2
    Or is there one. I'd imagine if there is a protocol for this thing then it could be easily written.

    CAn you be online and retrieve the data from the mailbox?