Java
I just found out that Sun finally decided to make a java plugin for AMD64 on ubuntu. This is great news considering all the troubles people have been through to get java working in their browsers, like chroot’ing a 32bit system and running their browsers through that.
Of course, for some time icedtea would be [...]
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If you want to use java on a virtual private server, you will quickly learn that it will not install without complications. To make it install, do this:
apt-get install sun-java5-jdk # the first time, this will fail
nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-bin.postinst
Comment out this line:
$basedir/bin/java -client -Xshare:dump > /dev/null
apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
It will now install without fail. Enjoy. [...]
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Using blogspam.net for antispam
Since I’ve redone the design on my blog, I figured that it would be nice to enable comments again. I’ve stumbled over Steve Kemp’s blogpost “When the light is green, the trap is clean.” which is about a XML-RPC based antispam service for blogs and forums. I followed the link to blogspam.net and read [...]
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