The Design and Implementation of laffer1

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/27/obese.child.reut/index.html

I really wish the media wouldn't push his weight.  I'm sure that's really going to help the kid deal with others at school all the more.  CNN says your fat. :(

Helps if i post the BSDA stuff
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/

Here's some interesting material on a BSD licensed ebook for BSDA certification.

Seems like my xfire list is just WoW players now. Hardly anyone is playing ET. Kind of scary if you ask me.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/hello/

Nice apple ad.  Damn cingular lowering the bar.

Both Monk and Psych are using Dell computers.  Alienware is a dell brand now.  I'm wondering what kind of deal they got for the rediculous product placement.

So I've been bitching about Java.  Oddly enough, I did manage to get Just Journal running in a war file on my iBook but using the production database.  I also found several bugs during testing that I've corrected.  I think some of the java problems were related to no x11 running and headless was not enabled.  I've since fixed the x11 libraries installation on the server and enabled headless.  Before I can try an upgrade again, I need to sync everything with the war file build procedure.  It will take some time. 

On the upside, I have a patch to fix some XSS issues with subject fields.  One asshat created an account with some very nasty javascript redirects to a porno site.  Once I finish testing, I'll delete that account.  I think its the first time I've felt the need to delete an account on Just Journal for content.  Since its an ad and he was trying to exploit the site I don't feel bad.

Anyone using my site that knows me ought to come forward and let me know if you've seen any bugs or things I should fix.  This is my best chance to work on the site for some time.

http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

This german freak used a pentium overdrive underclocked with XP.  He got it down to 8Mhz.  I don't understand why anyone would even try to do this.  I've used it on a 400Mhz AMD K6-2 and it was painful enough.

More apache fun
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39577

Apache decided to give the finger to everyone who deploys anything (test env or otherwise) without a war file.  This breaks a LOT of web applications. 

Something must have changed with catalina defaults, but I'm having problems with tomcat unless x11 is running.  This fixed my problem:

" Add this line to the beginning of "catalina.sh":

CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"

And then restart Tomcat."

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21253536

According to this article, IBM will not be releasing a vista compatible version of smartsuite.

I got blacklisted again. This list is annoying me. They keep blocking my mail server when they say they do not block real mail servers. WTF. I think its my secondary mx so i got rid of it. Hopefully that will clear things up. I also decided to upgrade sendmail just in case there was a problem. I've done open relay checks and most of the webapps should be clean. I can't figure it out.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/2050244&from=rss

YES! A judge who actually understands reality. This is also good news for JJ. Parents are LEGALLY responsible for their children. Its the parent who must protect the child and not a blogging, communication site. Parents don't let your kids on the internet if you can't be bothered with watching them.

http://www.rachaelraymag.com/content/34252/;jsessionid=A1A038E071EEE7388D7DF076794E2C21.app1_edwrr1

WOW.... what jewel has in her fridge on the road. At least I feel better about all the pizza i eat.

Caryn's valentine stuff is in romulus right now! Fedex has it severely delayed. My new puter isn't here either. This sucks.

I saw a police officer get into a car accident on 94 this morning by us23.... he hit someone while merging onto 94! They had to get a tow truck which made me 25 minutes late for my TEST. Oddly it only took me 15 minutes to actually take the test.

I've decided to start posting certain things friends only. Its probably not good to share my entire life public on here.

Apple added Enterprise to iTunes.  Lets hope they add all the shows.  I wouldn't mind buying a few DS9 episodes.  I'll probably buy the 3 enterprise episodes that I like.  I guess amazon doesn't have any exclusives I care about now on unboxed.

If you got F*ck by nvidia on the vista driver, just download the beta 8800 driver which also works with the 7300GS and other GeForce cards.  Vista OpenGL support then works to some degree.

Here's an portion of a recent slashdot post I made:

Apple has always been considered premiere with windows as the regular everyday OS. Think of it this way. Windows is like a chevy and Mac OS is like a BMW. Not everything thinks a BMW looks good, but many people would buy one if they could afford it. Windows users advocate buying a chevy.. they are more popular and look cheaper up front. The bills to keep the chevy running over time start to add up though. In windows terms, antivirus software and other utilities. I hope this explains why the guy said MS was catching up.. its like chevy releasing a good car. Before anyone gets upset, remember chevy has always been considered GM's lowend line. They are also GM's most popular brand.

http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219512&cid=17818396