Tuesday, October 05, 2004

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP Container - Tomcat Setup on Windows

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP Container - Tomcat Setup

These are not super user friendly web sites. I assume the download package ending in .exe is the windows installer package :-).

Blojsom quick start

blojsom Quickstart - Confluence

1. Install latest version of JRE from www.java.com (1.4.2)
2. Install Tomcat
3. Drop WAR file into Tomcat.

Start.

UPDATE: In order for the blog to display on any machine but the one it's installed on, you have to configure the URL in the weblog settings with the fully specified name. Otherwise you get part of the blog -- but no style sheets. Looks ugly.

Defaults to port 8080. I need to figure out how to change that to port 80.

I'm figuring out what blog tool to use and looking for a bookmarklet or firefox extension.

Open Source Blog server bundled in OS X Tiger

About blojsom - Confluence

This looks very intriguing.

David Mattison's Tiki Wiki Hut : Blog Authoring/Publishing Software

Welcome to David Mattison's Tiki Wiki Hut : Blog Authoring/Publishing Software
Another comprehensive collection. I think I'm getting to the end of scoping these things.

Best (so far) directory of blog software

Blog Software Breakdown

Why doesn't anyone put dates on anything any more? Still, this is pretty neat.

ONE/Northwest KnowledgeBase: Offline blogging tools - Zempt and SharpMT for Movable Type

ONE/Northwest KnowledgeBase: Offline blogging tools

First of all, this is an interesting knowledge resource. Secondly Blogger holds up rather well in terms of the simplicity/functionality wars. Thirdly, the blogging/RSS/syndication world is still very raw.

Update: Sigh. Really dated.

ecto blog

ecto blog

At the moment probably the most popular OS X client. I think NetNewsWire is moving into this space.

Weblogs Compendium - Blog Tools

Weblogs Compendium - Blog Tools
Omits Plone.

Weblog tools (owned server): Plone and School Content Management Systems

Webloggy Websites for Schools - Plone

Google rules: RSS feeds for email activity

Micro Persuasion: Gmail Adds Atom Feeds
Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that's akin to RSS. The feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. See screen grabs. In addition, the service rolled out a more robust contact interface that nicely lists all your contacts the related messages that live in your archive as well as the ability to forward your messages to any other email account.

We don't need a messaging client. We need an activity client that tracks activities across web sites, email, phone mail, etc. It needs notification rules and escalation rules, automated responses, metadata generation ...

Monday, October 04, 2004

BugMeNot - bypassing site registration

BugMeNot.com

Subverting registration policies. Good topic for an ethics debate. The Firefox extension no longer works, but one can get login data from this site.

Completely removing Chapura KeySuite -- recovering from an Outlook Profile change

Synchronize Outlook with Palm OS handheld...

KeySuite has worked much better for me than about 6 previous solutions, but I really scrambled it when I had to change Outlook Profiles (delete old, create new) on one machine. Back to the nightmares of duplicate tasks, sync errors, etc. Problem was KeySuite 3.2 didn't quite manage the Profile change -- it "thought" I was synchronizing with two profiles on two machines. It actually tried to handle this, but sometimes it got severely confused.

Problem was, I couldn't make KeySuite "forget" about the sync settings. Turned out they were in the "Key ..." folders in my Palm data folder. (Worse problem -- I had TWO Palm data folders and chose the wrong one to work on ...). So deleting those allowed me to start over properly.

These full uninstall directions are more complete than the ones on Chapura's site, but the key step is removing the KeySuite folder from Outlook and removing the above mentioned data folders.
To completely uninstall KeySuite, please complete the following:
1. To remove KeySuite from the computer:
2. On the PC, click "Start/Settings/Control Panel" or
"Start/Control Panel" and double-click the "Add/Remove Programs" icon.
3. From the "Add/Remove Programs" window, highlight KeySuite from
the programs list and click the "Add/Remove" or "Change/Remove" button and click "Yes" to uninstall KeySuite.
4. Open the Folder List view in Outlook by clicking on "View/Folder List".
5. On the "Folder List", right-click on the KeySuite folder and click "Delete KeySuite".
6. Right mouse click on your Start button and go to Explore. On the C: drive locate the Palm folder
7. In the Palm Folder go into the folder that is some form of your name. In that folder locate the KeyContacts, KeyDates, KeyTasks and KeyNotes folders and delete them.
8. Now, under Program files locate the Chapura folder. In the Chapura folder delete the KeySuite folder and the Forbin folder if you have one.
9. Close the Exploring window
10. Go to Start/Run and type in regedit and hit OK
11. Hit the (+) sign next to HKEYCURRENT USER
12. Hit the (+) next to Software
13. Under software hit the (+) sign next to Chapura and delete the Key folder.

To remove KeySuite from the handheld:
1. Tap on the "Applications" icon (picture of a house) on the bottom left and tap on the "Menu" icon located directly below the "Applications" icon.
2. From the menu bar, tap on "Delete".
3. From the "Delete" screen, highlight "KeyToday", "KeyContact", "KeyDates", "KeyNotes", "KeyTasks", KeyAlarmLibrary" and "KeySuiteLibrary" one at a time and tap "Delete" and then tap "Done".
Note: Some older handhelds may not list "KeySettings-CpKS".
4. Synchronize the handheld one time. Now, reinstall the KeySuite software and sync twice.

Exceptional Review of Sony Ericsson T39m

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sony Ericsson T39m at Epinions.com

Bluetooth phones - sync list for Palm

Here's PalmOne's list of supported phones.
* Sony-E. T68i
* Sony-E. T610
* Nokia 3650
* Nokia 6210 (requires connectivity pack)
* Nokia 6310
* Nokia 6310i
* Motorola TP280i
* Ericsson R520m
* Ericsson T39m
* Ericsson T68
* Philips Fisio 825
* Siemens S55

Another way to help choose what to replace my old Samsung with.

VNC sharing w/ OS X and XP

MacInTouch Home Page
Gary Ralston describes a cross-platform, screen-sharing system he worked out, using VNC:

It took a while, but I found a workaround with VNC for a Windows machine to screen-share my Mac running Mac OS X 10.3.5. While free, the solution is inelegant - you have to set everything just so to get the connection working.
On the Mac, we ran Share My Desktop 1.2 . On the PC, we ran TightVNC.

On the Mac:

1. Set the Mac to 1024x768, Thousands (256 or millions will fail)
2. Launch 'Share My Desktop'
3. Enter port 5901 (VNC uses ports 5900 and higher, one port for each monitor, as far as I can guess)
4. Enter a password
5. Press 'Share My Desktop'

On the PC:

1. The PC seems less sensitive to bit depth and resolution settings. We got it to work with 16 and 32 bit at 1024x768.
2. Use Tight VNC client - try fast and best compression versions.
3. In Tight VNC preferences, reduce the default compression to get an acceptable picture (we used a setting of 5 with good results between machines connected via cable modems. 9 is pretty pixilated.)
4. Address the Mac using the public IP address, a colon, and '1' (so 24.69.4.235:1) (This works fine behind a router - forward public port 5901 to the local IP address of your host Mac)

I've done something similar. Microsoft's RDC is much better for controlling a Windows machine.