Sun JDK on Ubuntu (10.04 and later)
There is just something about using the Sun (Oracle) JDK that makes me all warm inside. So when it was pulled from standard apt repos, and being a lunix novice I was a bit irked. For some time I had...
View ArticleInstalling Mercurial-Server on Fedora Core
Those of you who are familiar with distributed version control systems likely understand that the notion of a central repository has been removed from the required architecture. However, there remain...
View ArticleImporting Non-Well Known CA Certificates
A while ago my good friend, Neil Fritz wrote a nice little article describing basic manipulation of SSL certificates in Java keystores. This is one of those things that I do just rarely enough to...
View ArticleData Destruction and You
Despite what procrastinating students and thesis authors might tell you, its actually pretty difficult to lose your homework if its ever been written to disk. This is usually good news. However, there...
View ArticleWindows, Putty, and MercurialEclipse: A Love Triangle
Tonight I again found myself looking up Plink command line parameters and experimenting with variations of user names and SSH keys. I was attempting to stitch together another seamless development...
View ArticleISOs, DD and HDIUTIL – Backup Preparation
I moved recently, and as part of that mess, discovered a number of old hard disks, CDs and DVDs that had just been sitting in boxes and closets. Now, I know that most of this data is trash since I...
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