javamail.providers
May 31, 2004
I have pulled out quite a few hairs trying to get my java VM to recognize the settings in the javamail.providers file. The javamail API is extensible. Meaning you can write your own mail protocol implementation if you want. Well...
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The wonders of C
May 30, 2004
The last time I worked with C or C++ was close upon two years ago. Just now I had an opportunity to write a few lines of code in C++. There is a strong feeling of achievement when you type...
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WebCam on Linux
May 29, 2004
I have a web camera that had been gathering dust for nearly six months, primarily because I was under the impression that drivers were not available for linux. (So why did I buy it in the first place? I didn't...
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Java and PHP
May 28, 2004
I tried compiling java support for PHP a couple of days ago with out much success. Yesterday I found myself on windows after sometime and decided to see try out java extension on windows. It worked like a charm, (which...
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Hello Sphinx
Finally managed to get the Sphinx 4 demos to run with out throwing a heap of exceptions. This success sadly was not achieved on my linux box. After deleting the entire source tree followed by another CVS checkout, the build...
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Sphinx Update
May 27, 2004
Since I last wrote about sphinx I ran a cvs update on the source tree. I made progress with this update, or at least I was now beginning to get a different set of exceptions(which is encouraging). I noticed that...
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ServerPronto
If you are looking for an ISP here's one not to use. Yesterday I ordered a dedicated server from them. About 12 hours after the order was sent, I recieve a mail from them asking me to photo copy both...
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VoiceXML and SSL
May 26, 2004
What has VoiceXML got to do with SSL? not much. So why am I writing about it? Well today I purchased an SSL certificate. When a certificate authority issues you with a SSL or developer certificate they may verify the...
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Java and PHP
Now there is an argument on Java in the PHP mailing list. A couple of wags have commented that an applet cannot connect to the server it originated from. Unfortunately the first to make that comment does not know the...
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RPM on 2.6.5
May 25, 2004
Because of the problems associated with RPM on linux 2.6.5, I decided to upgrade my RPM installation. Even though I compile most software from sources, I thought it would be inappropriate to do so for RPM. So I dug up...
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The list idiot
Yesterday someone in the evolt list asked about using Weblogic to deliver servlets. Curiosly this guy doesn't even have a web application, he is just building a dynamic coporate website. What matters though is that he was willing to learn....
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Apache SSL
May 24, 2004
The last time I wrote about Apache SSL I made a mistake. At the time I was under the impression that the apache SSL installation can only be used to deliver pages over HTTPS and I mistakenly thought that I...
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Another Page Rank Calculation?
May 23, 2004
It looks like there may have been another page rank calculation during the last few days. Since the google toolbar is not available for unix like systems and I login to a windows machine very very rarely, I cannot be...
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Subversion
May 22, 2004
In the process of working with the Info Dancer maildir implementation, I contacted it's author Mathew Hunter and discussed making a contribution (code not financial). I came to learn the he is using subverson for source control instead of CVS....
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Getting Started with Sphinx 4
May 21, 2004
I checked out the Spinx 4 voice recognition system from their CVS repository and finally found the time to upgrade my ant so that I could build it. Earlier I wrote about how some of their models appeared to have...
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PHP with java
May 20, 2004
I have read countless posts by users on the php mailing lists from people having trouble installing the java extension for PHP. I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. In case you are new to PHP, the java...
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Search at last
May 19, 2004
These blogs and the rest of this site is finally searchable. This long overdue feature has been finally added with the help of aspseek. The name ASPseek is quite misleading. Once someone asked in the PHP mailing list for a...
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LInux 2.6.5 and Sound
May 18, 2004
A few days ago I thought I had successfully configured and upgraded my kernel to 2.6.5. Apprently not. When I switched on my speakers after a lapse of few days, they had gone on strike. Since upgrading the kernel I...
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infodancer
May 17, 2004
I continued my investigaion of infodancer after downloading and installing the Orielly upload handler as well as apache log4J. While I believe the com.orielly.servlet package to be a fine set of classes I am reluctant to use it, since I...
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J2ME and the 6600
May 16, 2004
Recently I had a run in with the Nokia 6600. This phone is no longer new but it's still a very interesting phone indeed because it supports MIDP 2.0 and the MMAPI not to mentioned the bluetooth for java API....
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More on maildir
May 15, 2004
Infodancer is an attempt to provide java implementations for many of Prof. D.J Bernsteins ideas. I downloaded infodancer only because it contains a Maildir implementation in java, closer inspection reveals that it has support for other stuff including a folder...
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Sphinx 4
Decided to checkout CMU Sphinx and give it whirl. Sphinx 4 is a pure java voice recognition system. After having extracted the source code I found that I need to upgrade my ant, so I put it off temporarily. The...
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RPM on linux 2.6.5
May 14, 2004
I ran into another problem with the 2.6.5 kernel today. For the first time since upgrading to the 2.6.5 kernel I had to use an RPM. Unfortunately rpm -qa returned an error error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable...
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Google Changes Again
May 13, 2004
Google seems to have gone back to their habit of changing the first few results every few hours. However what's more interesting is that they have announced yet another change to the adsense program - of course that means a...
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pass the Wine
May 12, 2004
The last time I installed wine on my computer was on 2003-07-09. It's so easy to tell the data since the wine download includes the date as part of it's name. That was too long ago, and after upgrading to...
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Virus flood
May 11, 2004
Yesterday I recieved nearly 300 viruses in a 30 minute window. This mailer apparently send the virus to randomname@raditha.com, where randomname was a name or sequence of letters chosen at random. Out of laziness I had configured my qmail installation...
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Up and running with linux 2.6.5
May 10, 2004
Today for the first time I managed to get the 2.6.5 version of the linux kernel up and running with all the modules/devices working as expected. I guess I have seen most of what can go wrong, starting from Warning:...
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Apache SSL
May 9, 2004
Since it has been a long time since I last updated the apache server running on my pc (RH 9.0) I decided to upgrade to 1.3.29 and decided to try out apache SSL at the same time. Apache SSL is...
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Voice Recognition on Linux
May 8, 2004
I was pleasently suprised to get an email from a developer working on the CMU Sphinx project. He has good news the project is certainly live and kicking which is very good news indeed. Paul Lamere is working on Sphinx...
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6600 again
May 7, 2004
The 6600 is a reall disapointment. This surely is the windows of mobile phones. Nothing seems to work on it the way it's supposed to. There's precious little documentation available and what's available is little more than marketing hype. The...
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Card Designer
May 6, 2004
It was nearly a month ago that I wrote about our Card Designer finally being ready for release. Unfortunately one thing or other always kept coming up and we had to keep putting it off. There were one or two...
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J2ME and Bluetooth
May 5, 2004
The 6600 that i have been writing about is one of the few phones that implement the JSR XXX, the j2me bluetooth spec. My first encounter with bluetooth was around four years ago at the time not many people had...
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Paypal wake up
Paypal is obviously another Rip Wan Wynkel or the word wide web, too bad they went to sleep many years ago and never woke up. Though they say "Pay anyone with an email address" that anyone has to be a...
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Turck MMCache
May 4, 2004
Trying my hand at Turck MMCache - a PHP optimizer, encoder and caching system. I have long known the benefits of such systems. (my first encounter with a php encoder was the first release of the zend encoders (which was...
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Voice Recognition on linux
May 3, 2004
Sadly my quest to come up with a speech recognition system that runs on linux has come to nought. Whenever you google you find tons of pages, most of them refer to viavoice linux edition - a product that was...
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Maildir in java
May 2, 2004
I am debating wether or not to create my own maildir implementation in java. I did a bit of searching and came up with a handfull of implementations. One of them is on the GNU site so I had to...
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Google Page Rank
May 1, 2004
Looks like there may have been another page rank recalculation with in the last couple of days. In March the google algorithm seems to have changed on the 26th. This month it seems they have decided calculating the page rank...
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