In peparing to attempt to install Fedora Core (Release 5) on a spare laptop - today I first wanted to create a CD from an ISO image of the Fedora Core 5 Rescue CD.
My primary development platform is an HP Pavilion zv6000 running Windows XP (SP2) - with an AMD64 Athlon CPU. As such - I needed a utility that will allow me to burn a CD with an ISO image - since Widows XP doesn't provide any means for doing so.
I found a free utility (ISO Recorder 2) that I decided to try out.
2006-06-27
Tuesday - June 27, 2006
This blog serves as my research notebook for a variety of topics that are of interest to me.
2006-06-03
Saturday - June 3, 2006
I came across an interesting site today that has a collection of potentially useful JavaScript snippets: dynamicdrive.com
This blog serves as my research notebook for a variety of topics that are of interest to me.
2006-05-31
Wednesday - May 31, 2006
In 1999, I moved to Seattle Washington from Washington D.C. to work for one of Paul Allen's "Wired World" ventures (Mercata, Inc.) - which intended to provide a service that would allow aggregated groups of customers (shopping online via the mercata.com store) - to collectively work together to drive the price of an item down - via a reverse-auction type process.
As I read this story tonight - about shoppers in China effectively doing the same thing - albeit without the benefit of an automated agent like Mercata's online store - I smiled at the similiar reaction the merchant in the story seemed to have...which was probably the same less-than-thrilling reaction Mercata's suppliers/distributors probably had as well about such approaches to new ways of increasing sales.
Mercata was quite an adventure - the thrill of the dot.com pace of change - and the tremendous talent of the assembled team.
As I read this story tonight - about shoppers in China effectively doing the same thing - albeit without the benefit of an automated agent like Mercata's online store - I smiled at the similiar reaction the merchant in the story seemed to have...which was probably the same less-than-thrilling reaction Mercata's suppliers/distributors probably had as well about such approaches to new ways of increasing sales.
Mercata was quite an adventure - the thrill of the dot.com pace of change - and the tremendous talent of the assembled team.
This blog serves as my research notebook for a variety of topics that are of interest to me.
2006-05-29
Monday - May 29, 2006
I've been updating my development environment today...preparing to dive into some new releases of Open Source code:
The Apache Tomcat 5.5 Servlet/JSP Container
Eclipse 3.1.2
Java Web Services Developer Pack 2.0
PostgreSQL 8.1 (contains more than 120 new features)
I downloaded the latest version of EMS Database Management Solutions, Inc. SQL Manager 2005 for PostgreSQL Lite (3.2.0.4) - which supports PostgreSQL 8.1
I'm using Sun's Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05) - but may look at updating to the latest release later this week.
Issues Discovered
1) Apparently, the /bin/javaw.exe reserved port 8005 - which the default installation of Tomcat 5.5 wants to use. I changed Tomcat's port to use 8010.
2) The latest distribution of Tomcat 5.5 doesn't include the Admin interface - you have to download and install it separately.
I'm using Sun's Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05) - but may look at updating to the latest release later this week.
Issues Discovered
1) Apparently, the /bin/javaw.exe reserved port 8005 - which the default installation of Tomcat 5.5 wants to use. I changed Tomcat's port to use 8010.
2) The latest distribution of Tomcat 5.5 doesn't include the Admin interface - you have to download and install it separately.
This blog serves as my research notebook for a variety of topics that are of interest to me.