The Site With the Lamp: September 2005 Archives

Eolas and Patent Folly

September 30, 2005

It's rare for linux freaks like myself to defend Microsoft, but Microsoft's standing firm against the Eolas patent law suite does need to be comended. Should Eolos have their way in this patent battle they will then target their guns...

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Online Share Trading

September 26, 2005

Ask me "what is the worst software you have seen?", and I wouldn't have an answer for you. I have seen thousands of really badly written software but I don't even give them a second glance. Ask me "What is...

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SLT ADSL, DNS and Daemontools

September 22, 2005

Many users of SLT ADSL complain about the connections slowing down to a crawl and even timeouts when browsing. I also ran into the same situation and tracked it down to a problem with Sri Lanka Telecom's DNS servers. Two...

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Wordpress

September 18, 2005

Had the indepth look at Wordpress as I threatened to do the other day. One of the first things I learnt is that wordpress is actually a fork of b2evolution. I had read that b2evolution was a good product but...

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Java Obfuscators.

September 16, 2005

Because of the incompatibilities between proguard 3.3 and Java 6, I decided to have a look at other obfuscators/optimizers. The authors of the first one I tried, Retro Guard seem to be clueless about the GPL. This software is distributed...

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Serial Blogger

September 15, 2005

A couple of days ago this serial blogger looked at a few blogging tools and found they didn't come up to the standards set by Movabletype. Today it's the turn of a few more victims starting from b2evolution With B2evelution,...

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runnning with Mustang

September 14, 2005

Class verification errors were the order of the day when I first started using Java 5. With java six it's something else: Error: Can't read [/usr/java/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/rt.jar] (Can't process class file [com/sun/accessibility/internal/resources/accessibility.class] (Unsupported version number [50.0] for class file format)) The...

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Looking for a new blogger

September 13, 2005

I am at the moment very happy with Movable Type, but it doesn't do any harm to look at the alternatives to see if something else has caught up or overtaken MT while i wasn't looking. The best way to...

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Java Mustang

September 11, 2005

Just downloaded a snapshot of java 6.0 naturally the first thing is to see if Rad Upload works well with it. It does. The only noticable difference is in the security certificate that pops up when the applet starts. The...

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Google Sitemaps.

September 10, 2005

Did a bit of experimenting with google sitemaps. It left me wondering if the effort was worth it or if it is even counter productive. This was for a new website. A few days after the site's contents were first...

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Playing catch up

September 9, 2005

This is a gloat/boast. There are couple of products similar to Rad Upload out there. They can be tagged as similar becuase they are HTTP file uploaders and they can be used to upload multiple files there the similarity ends....

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Subversion on FC4

September 8, 2005

Another software that stopped working after upgrading to Fedora Core 4 was Subversion. I have two installations of subversion in fact. One uses BDB and the other users FSFS. Since upgrading all my work has been with the FSFS installation...

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Google Toolbar for linux

September 5, 2005

Google has often been a favourite whipping boy for privacy advocates. It's refreshing to see google moving in the right direction to stop these critics. I tried out the recently released official google toolbar for firefox. (An unofficial tool bar...

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SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

September 2, 2005

Trying to debug yesterday's The connection to www.raditha.com terminated unexpectedly error with Apache 2 SSL. Tried using the openssl client (openssl s_client -connect raditha.com:443 -state -debug). It produces the following result; As always there are lots of pundits with strong...

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